54. SAPOTACEJE. 
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spectively an exact analogy with /. Perado and I. Azevinho, 
though the correspondence is just reversed with respect to 
foliage. 
Order LIY. SAPOTACEAE. 
The Star-apple or Sapodilla Family. 
FI. perfect regular. Cal. free persistent mostly 5- rarely 4- 
12-partite, the lobes imbricate or valvate, adpressed in fr. Cor. 
deciduous hypogynous, gamopetalous, the lobes as many or 
2-3 times as many as and alternate with those of cal., imbri- 
cate in bud. Stam. definite distinct, mostly of 2 sorts, barren 
and fertile ; the barren petaloidal, the fertile or anthqriferous 
mostly as many as and alternate with them and adnate to the 
base of the cor. -lobes. Anth. mostly extrorsal. Style 1 simple. 
Stigma minutely lobed. Ov. free mostly hispid 2-5-12-locular, 
cells 1-ovulate. Ovule single anatropal pendulous from the 
top or ascending from the base of the axile angle of its cell, in 
fr. adherent to the same. Fr. a pome or by abortion a drupe, 
the cells mostly becoming all but one or two abortive. Seeds 
crustaceous or hard and bony shining, hilum inferior or lateral 
sometimes scarlike very large and elongate ; embryo large or- 
thotropal ; alb. either none with a large oily embryo, or fleshy 
and oily. Cotyled. large leafy or fleshy and oily, contrary to 
the hilum except in Aryania R. JBr. Radicle inferior. Tr. and 
shr. with milky juices, mostly soft wood and often esculent fr., 
chiefly tropical ; the only exception being the Madeiran pi. 
here recorded. Another sp. of the Family ( Sapota marginata 
Dene.) is also peculiar to the Cape Verdes; but none occurs in 
the intermediate Canaries ! L. mostly coriaceous and alternate, 
penninerved entire shortly petioled exstipulate, mostly silky 
beneath. FI. axillary small aggregate or solitary. 
1. Sideroxylon. Cal. and cor. 5-partite or 5-fid. Stam. 
inserted on the very short cor. -tube in 2 rows; 5 sterile 
petaloid, alternate with the pet. and like an inner cor. ; 
5 fertile alternate with the sterile and opposite the true 
pet. ; anth. extrorsal shorter than their fil. and affixed to 
them by their middle, not erect or adnate. Ov. 5-(rarely 
4-2-)celled, the cells 1-ovulate; ovules all but 1 or 2 or 
3 abortive. Fr. an ovoidal or globose 1-3-seeded drupe 
or berrylike pome. Seed ovoidal or globose bony shining 
obtusely 5-ribbed ; with a small round hilum, copious al- 
bumen and large flat leafy cotyledons. — Evergreen un- 
armed tr. or shr. with hard wood, coriaceous reticulately 
veined 1., small aggregate w. pink or flesh-col. fl. and small 
red or blackish rarely y. fr. 
