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opposite the lobes of the inner row ; filaments slender, -05 in. long ; 
anthers oblong, glabrous, apiculate. Staminodes alternate with the 
anthers, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, toothed, clothed on the back and 
sides with pale stiff hairs. Ovary silky-pubescent, 6-celled; style slender, 
grooved, as long as corolla. Fruit an ovoid berry about 1 in. long; yellow 
when ripe, 1- rarely 2-seeded. Seed oblong, -75 in. long, -5 broad and 
about - 25 thick, rounded above, hollowed at base where is the small 
oval hilum ; testa erustaceous, dark brown, shining ; albumen thin ; coty- 
ledons oblong, leafy, nearly as large as the seed cavity; radicle inferior. 
Roxb. Cor. PL 1. 15. t. 14, and PI. Ind. II. 236 ; Gaertn. f. Fruct. 1. 198, 
t. 42; Lamk. 111. t. 300 ; Baillon Hist. PL XI. 267, figs. 302-309 ; Engl. 
& Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. i. 152, fig. 82 E-J ; Burck Ann. Jard. Buit. 
V. (1886) 61 ; Wall. Cat. 4146 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 202 ; Clarke in Hook, 
f. FI. Br. Ind. III.I548 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 140 ; Wight Ic. t. 1586 ; 
Brandis For. FI. 293; Bedd. FI. Sylv. t. 40; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. XLVI. ii. 231, For. FI. II. 123; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 86; Prain 
Beng. PL 649 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. II. 95. M. obtusifolia, Bl. Bijdr. 
672. “ Elengi” Rheede Hort. Mai. I. 33 t. 20. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 
II. 189 t. 63. 
Pebak : Scortechini 1122. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3612 ; Maingay 
(K.D.) 995/2, 998 ; Cuming 2265. — Distbib. India, Ceylon, Burma, 
cultivated in other tropical regions ; the fallen corollas are used to 
make garlands. 
2. Mimusops Kauki, Linn. Sp. Pl. 349 (1753). A large evergreen 
tree ; braneblets thick greyish-brown, extremities somewhat ferruginous- 
scaly or -pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, clustered towards the ends of 
the branehlets ; obovate or elliptic-obovate, obtuse, emarginate or very 
slightly acute at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous above, densely and 
smoothly grey-silky-pubescent beneath ; the margins slightly recurved ; 
2 to 4 in. long, 1-25 to 2'75 in. broad ; midrib prominent ; main-nerves 
very indistinct, about 14 to 16 pairs, parallel, meeting near the edge in 
a looped intramarginal nerve ; petiole - 5 to P5 in. long, moderately 
thick, channelled above. Floivers thickly clustered towards the ends 
of the branehlets ; pedicels "75 to 1 in. long, appressed grey-silky- 
pubescent, angular. Calyx-lobes 6, '25 in. long ; 3 outer valvate, ovate, 
acute, grey-silky-pubescent ; 3 inner imbricate, similar but rather 
thinner. Corolla with a very short tube and 18 (or more, exceptionally) 
lobes in 2 rows ; the outer row 12, lanceolate, acute ; the inner 
6, spathulate ; all ‘1 in. long or nearly so, glabrous. Stamens 6 to 8, 
usually 6, extrorse ; filaments ‘1 in. long, conical, glabrous ; anthers 
•1 in. long, linear, blunt. Staminodes alternating with the stamens, 
•2 to ’25 in. long, cuneate, deeply and irregularly fimbriate at apex. 
