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8. Mimusops, Linn. 
Trees with milky juice. Leaves chai'taeeous or coriaceous, with 
many usually inconspicuous parallel main-nerves. Flowers solitary or 
fascicled in the axils of the upper leaves on the branchlets. Calyx-lobes 
6 or 8, in 2 series, the outer valvate enclosing the inner imbricate. 
Corolla with short tube ; lobes 18 or 24 or more in 2 rows, one-third 
of the number in the inner, the rest in the outer, row ; lobes of the outer 
row often divided.* Stamens 6 or 8, attached to the corolla-tube opposite 
the inner lobes ; filaments short, dilated, free or connate in a tube with 
the staminodes ; anthers lanceolate, extrorse, usually apiculate by the 
production of the connective. Staminodes alternate with and as many 
as the stamens, sub-petaloid, usually fimbriate. Ovary hirsute, 6-8-celled. 
Fruit a globose or ovate fleshy berry, epicarp crustaceous ; seeds few 
or solitary. Seeds ovate or oblong, often oblique, slightly compressed ; 
hilum basal or lateral ; testa hard, shining ; albumen fleshy, thin ; 
cotyledons flat, leafy. — Distrib. Species about 30 ; in the tropics of 
both hemispheres. 
Calyx-segments 8 ; stamens 8 ; staminodes acuminate, hairy . . 1. M. Elengi. 
Calyx-segments 6 ; stamens 6 ; staminodes fimbriate, glabrous . . 2. M. Eauki. 
1. Mimusops Elengi, Linn. Sp. PI. 349 (1753). An evergreen tree, 
stems reaching 40 to 50 feet in height, and with a large girth ; ultimate 
branchlets with dark brown rusty pubescence. Leaves chartaceous ; 
elliptic, shortly acuminate at apex, rounded (often unequally), at base; 
glabrous on both surfaces, shining above ; margins slightly recurved ; 3 
to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib prominent, raised on both sur- 
faces ; main-nerves numerous, the first pair from the base forming intra- 
marginal nerves, which are looped where they meet the 14 to 16 pairs of 
main-nerves ; secondary nerves like the main-nerves and, with the reticu- 
lations, forming an elegant network ; petiole - 6 to 1 in. long, slender ; 
stipules triangular-subulate, very small, ferruginous-pubescent, very 
caducous. Flowers white, fragrant, solitary or in fascicles of 2 to 6 in the 
axils of the upper leaves ; pedicels '3 to - 7 in. long, often deflexed, 
appressed-ferruginous-pubescent ; buds ovoid, acute. Calyx-lobes 8, '3 in. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; the 4 outer valvate, broader than the 
4 inner imbricate and channelled on the back ; all rusty-pubescent 
without, glabrous within. Corolla with a very short tube, scarcely 
over -05 in. long ; lobes 24, in 2 rows, the 16 outer linear-lanceolate, 
the 8 inner rather broader and shorter, linear-oblong. Stamens 8, 
* The outer corolla-lobes are now usually considered to be of the character of 
stipules to the inner row which constitute the regular petals. 
