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54. SAPOTACEJE. 
1. SlDEROXYLOX L. 
1. S. MarmULANO Lowe. Marmulano. 
Slir. unarmed ; young shoots and petioles more or less pale 
rusty -pubescent ; 1. always quite smooth and shining coriaceous 
reticulate subspatliulately obovate-oblong and acute or obtusely 
or retusely obovate or spathulate, very entire, pellucidly mar- 
ginate ; pedic. 2-5- or 6-aggregate in axillary fascicles short 
unequal never more than twice the length of the cal. or half 
that of the petioles, both pedic. and cal. closely and adpressedly 
rusty-pubescent or velvety ; sep. broadly ovate subobtuse, the 
inner with coloured margins ; cor. pale rose-pink or tlesli-col. 
campanulate with a very short tube; pet. twice the length of 
sep. erecto-patent, ovate ; barren or antherless stam. ovato- 
lanceolate concave resembling an inner cor. or corona ; fr. obo- 
vate or obovoidal, at first red, then black. — Lowe Prim. 22 and 
App. iii. ; DC. viii. 181. S. Mirmulans (sic) Bucli ! 193. no. 
205. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1 chiefly, 2 occasionally, § ; PS. reg. 
1, rrr. Sea-cliffs to the East of Funchal, at S. Vicente above 
the Cemetery and near the sea, between Seixal and Bib. de 
Joao Delgada, at Bib. da Janella, about the Entrosa, at S ta 
Anna, and in 1829 on the small rocky islet off P t0 da Cruz ; 
also 1500-2500 ft. up the Bib. de S. Jorge, &c. P t0 S t0 , June 
1832 ; u Serra de Dentro,” S r Moniz, Dec. 1856. FI. Dec., Jan. ; 
fr. July, Aug. — A low thickly bushy and leafy shr. mostly 
about 3 or 4, rarely above 7 or 8 ft. high, with bright full gr. 
shining handsome foliage and subproliferously branched, the 
branches stiff and thickish round erect with a rough greyish 
brown bark sprinkled with numerous brown Hysteriform len- 
ticels ; the younger or last year’s shoots, on which the fl. are 
produced, gr., with often somewhat of a glaucous hue and more 
or less pubescent with fine short close-pressed whitish or pale 
rusty hairs. L. alternate 3-5 or 6 in. long, lf-2-j- broad, spa- 
thulately obovate or oblongo-obovate acute or very obtuse, 
smooth altogether from the first, light fresh gr. and flaccid thin 
and delicate whilst young, coriaceous stiff and rigid afterwards 
and darkish full gr. above with pale midrib, paler beneath, 
shining on both sides but most brilliantly above whilst young, 
finely and elegantly pellucido-reticulate and with a distinct 
pale pellucid sharp thin border continued a little down the pe- 
tioles ; the midrib prominent and pale v., or reddish downwards, 
the lateral nerves equidistant faint and inconspicuous. Both 1. 
and st. whilst young give out a thick viscid bitter milky juice 
when cut or bruised. Petioles ^-1 in. long, mostly about £ iu*j 
pubescent above and all round at their axils, presently glabres- 
cent, pale y. like the midrib of the 1., but often red or purplish 
brown whilst young. hi. small inconspicuous, in crowded 
