402 STYRACB^. 



20. B. buxifolia, W. Spinose; braircWets and pedicels nisty-sericeons ; lemea oval- 

 oblong, bluntly apicalate, bluntish at the base, shining-glabrous above, glabrate beneath ; 

 pedicels densely fascicled, lateral, shorter than or as Jong as the petioles ; cah/x rusty-puhera- 

 lous, two-thirds as long as the corolla, half as long as the style ; all appendages oblong- 

 lanceolate, acaminate, as long as the stamens, little «Kceeded by the corolla. — Eth. N. Gen. 

 7. t. 647 : the exterior appendages solitary by mistake. — Leaves 2"-li" long, 1" broad ; 

 pedicels 2"'-2i"', corolla 2'" long,— Hab. Trinidad !, Cr. ; [Venezuela]. 



7. LUCUMA, Juss, 



Cte/^ 4-many-leaved OT -partite, imhricative. CoroWa tubular, 6-4(-8)-lobed. Stamens 

 opposite the corolla-lobes, alternating with as many sterile appendages. Ovary 10-2-celled : 

 ovules pendulous. Seeds exalbuminous : radicle inferior. 



21. L. multiflora, A. DC. Branohlets rusty-sericeous, glabrate ; leaves chartaceoua, 

 obovate-obloag or obovate, blunt, glabrous ; costate veins distant, delicately reticulated ; pe- 

 dicels fascicled (or single), usually shorter than the petiole ; calyx 4t-leaved, 2-serial : sepals 

 roundish, spreading, rusty-sericeous, half as long as the 6-lobed corolla; anthers ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, equalling the keeled appendages, laterally dehiscent ; ovary 4-celled ; berry globose, 

 \-seeded by abertion. — Aohraa qaadrifida, Mh. Bks, — A noble tree {Pd^, resembling L. 

 paudfiora, A. DC; (Achras vitelHna, Tuss. Fl. t. 4. f. 19), which has densely reticulated 

 leaf-veins, larger flowers, and a 5-8-seeded, eatable berry. Leaves variable, 8''-4"(-2"), 

 corolla 4'", anthers 1'" long; berry 8"'-10"' diam. ; pericarp rather leathery, filled up by 

 the subglobose seed. — Hab. Jamaica), Macf., AL, Fd., WullscM., Manchester, S. Anns, 

 Hanover, common in woods, 



22. !•• manuuosa, G. Branchlets rusty-viUous ; leaves chartaceous, obovate-oblong 

 or spathulate, with a long cuneate base, mucronate, glabrbns above, glabrescent beneath : 

 costate veins distant, delicately reticulated ; pedicels lateral, subsolitary, but approximate, 

 shorter than the calyx ; calyx 10-9-leaved, plariserial, imbricative ; sepals roundish, conni- 

 vent, sericeous, interior half as long as the 5-fid sericeous corolla ; anthers lanceolate, equal- 

 ling the subulate keeled appendages; ovary 6-ceiled; berry mowl-oblong, rough, usually 1- 

 seeded by abortion. — SJ. t. 218. Jaeq. Amer. Fid, t. 59. — Achras, L. (non Fuss. 3. t. 6, 

 which is Bassia Jussiaei, ef. ; non Desc.) — A tree ; leaves 8"-6" long, 3"-2" broad above ; 

 corolla white, 5"'-'6"', berry about 6", seed 2i" long, — Hab. Jamaica! {Jacg.), Al., Pd., 

 cultivated! ; [Cuba, Panama! Venezuela]. 



S, POUTERIA, Aubl. 



" Calyx 4-partite, imbricative. Corolla carapanulate, 4-lobed ; lobes alternating with ap- 

 pendages. Stamens inserted into the base of the corolla-tube," Capsule woody, 4-valved 

 to the base, usually 1-seeded by abortion : seed pendulous, loosely enclosed within a red 

 membrane, exalbuminous : testa crustaceous : radicle superior, short. 



The affinities of this genus are doubtful : Jnssieu considered it to be Ebenaceous. Onr 

 specimens are in fruit only, but I compare the flowers of Labatia, Mart (Poepp. Coll. 1885), 

 in which -the stamens are opposite the corolla-lobes, though more deeply inserted than in 

 the preceding genera, the appendages analagous to those of Jjucuma, and the anthers ex- 

 trorse. Hence Labatia is really Sapotaceous, but, if Fouteria has the same stamens, this 

 genus would be very anomalous by a superior radicle, dehiscent fruit, the calyx not pereis- 

 tent, and the petioles nodose at the summit. — Labatia sessUiflora, Sw., of Haiti, is unknown 

 to me, and I doubt of its being a congerer of Fouteria. 



23. P. guianensis, Aubl. Glabrous ; leaves usually opposite, elliptical-oblong or lan- 

 ceolate-oblong, pointed : veins costate ; pedicels (in fruit) longer than the petiole ; capsule 

 elliptical-oblong, lurid-tomentose. — Aubl. t. 33. — A tree ; leaves 8"-6", petiole 12"'-6"', 

 capsule 1" long. — Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., S. Anns ; [Guiana]. 



CV. STYKACEJ;. 

 Petals usually connected by the staminal tube. Stamens mostly monadelphous (or 



