•Chrysophyllumi lxxviii. sapotace^. 643 



polished at least on one side, f in. long, | in. broad, | in. thick, 

 •exalbiiminous ; embryo (vsrhen dry) ellipsoidal, ^ in. long, f in. 

 broad, \ in. thick ; cotyledons semi-ellipsoidal, subequal ; radicle 

 small ; young fruit, as well as the branchlets, emitting a whitish 

 milky juice, tipped with the more or less persistent style which is 

 hairy at the base. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In the less dense forests among the mountains of 

 'Queta, sporadic ; young fr. end of Aug. 1855. No. 4812, and Coll. 

 Cabp. 696. Queta ; fr. Sept. 1865. Coll. Carp. 700 and No. 4820. 

 ■Queta ; without either fl. or fr. Oct. 1855. Probably this species. 

 No. 4819. 



The natives call this plant " Disaco," and it is doubtless the same 

 as that mentioned by Welwitsch, Apont., p. 552 under n. 107, by 

 the name " Dicaso " ; according to a ms. note of his, the fruit has 

 intoxicating effects when eaten in some quantity. Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 209 (1884) referred the plant to Sideroxylon, and had previously in 

 Bol. Soc. Geogr. Lisb., Ser. 3, p. 479, united it with Sapota cerasifera 

 Welw., which is a Chrysophyllum. Although in the absence of the 

 ^flowers it is impossible to feel sure about the genus, it appears to me 

 better to place it under Chrysophyllum. No. 4819, which I have men- 

 tioned under this species, should also be compared with C cerasiferum ; 

 the two species differ by the latter having shorter peduncles, and, 

 according to Ficalho, by the shape of the leaves. 



7. C. cerasiferum. 



Sapota cerasifera Welw. Apont. p. 585. n. 17 (1859). 



A handsome tree of 20 to 30 ft. with a widely spreading ever- 

 green head, or an extensive tree with the habit somewhat of 

 Machilus odoratissima Nees, well worth cultivating; branchlets 

 dark-ashy, nodulose, leafy especially towards the apex, glabrate 

 ■except the tips ; leaves alternate, obovate or elliptical, obtuse or 

 subcuspidate at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, rigidly 

 coriaceous, rather shining, glabrate, entire, narrowly revolute on 

 the margin, 3 to 8 in. long by 1 to 3 in. broad, exstipulate ; lateral 

 veins 8 to 12 on each side of the midrib, clearly marked on the 

 lower face but rather slender, narrowly depressed on the upper 

 face; midrib strong beneath ; reticulation inconspicuous, depressed; 

 petiole |- to 1^ in. long ; flowers about i in. long, often precocious, 

 on shorter puberulous peduncles, crowded in approximated axillary 

 or lateral clusters ; calyx ^ in. long, turbinate-ovoid, 5-cleft ; the 

 lobes ovate or rounded, much imbricate, erect, puberulous outside ; 

 corolla glabrous, the tube short, the lobes 5, revolute, ovate, sub- 

 acute, Y^ in. long ; stamens 5, glabrous, opposite the corolla-lobes 

 and shorter than them, about -Jj- in. long ; anthers nearly as long 

 as the filaments, ovate, acuminate ; filaments flattened, sublinear, 

 revolute with the corolla-lobes ; ovary hairy, conical ; style 

 columnar, subglabrous towards the apex, undivided, exserted ; 

 fruit in size and taste like a large cherry, (in the dry state) about 

 an inch long, very well flavoured but slightly pungent, glabrate, 

 with the not much increased adpressed calyx at the base, and 

 apiculate at the apex with the base of the broken style ; fruiting 

 peduncle about \ in. long, the fruiting calyx |^ to f in. in diameter ; 



