Ardisia.] 
MYRSlNACEiE. 
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leaves (6-10 in. long), and panicles as long as the leaves and short pedicels ; B. multi - 
flora, A. DC. Prod. viii. 109, a variety with rather pointed leaves 5 - 6 in. long, and 
panicles crowded at the top of the branch, short-peduncled and not more than 
as long as the leaf; and B. crassa , A. DC., a form with thick branches, very 
thick obtuse leaves, short subsessile congested panicles as long as the leaf and 
short pedicels. Bois Pintade. 
Mr. Home sends from shaded forests in Mahe, Seychelles (No. 541), what is 
probably a species of this genus, of which he has not been able to procure flowers ; 
and Dr. Balfour found in .Rodriguez, in the upper part of the valleys, a plant 
resembling in leaf the large forms of A. insularis, with slightly compound panicles 
shorter than the leaves, a minute obconic calyx with deltoid teeth, and a depresso- 
globose glabrous drupe half an inch thick. 
Order LXII. SAPOTACE^]. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx persistent, coriaceous, cut 
nearly to the base into 5-8 lobes. Corolla with a short tube and as 
many or 2-3 times as many lobes as the sepals. Stamens inserted into 
the tube of the corolla, the fertile ones 1-3 times the number of the 
sepals, placed opposite the petals, often alternating with petaloid 
barren ones (staminodia) . Ovary many-celled ; placentation axile; 
ovules solitary in the cells ; style aud stigma simple. Fruit baccate, 
mostly by abortion 1-seeded ; albumen present or absent. — Trees 
or shrubs, with copious milky juice, entire coriaceous exstipulate leaves 
and copious small inconspicuous flowers in lateral fascicles. Distrib. 
Found the world in the tropical zone. Species about 300. 
Staminodes none 1. Labourdonnaisia. 
Staminodes as many as the sepals. 
Sepals and petals each 5-8 2. Sederoxylon. 
Petals 18-24. 
Outer petals entire 3. Mimusops. 
Outer petals deeply laciniated ' . 4. Imbricaria. 
1. LABOURDONNAISIA, Bojer. 
Calyx divided nearly to the base into 6 oblong-deltoid lobes, of 
which 3 are external. Petals as long as the calyx, all entire, 12 in 
one row, or 18, of which the inner 6 form a second inner row. Stamens 
as many as the petals; anthers as long as the subulate filaments. 
Staminodia none. Ovary 6-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells. Fruit a 
large 1-seeded berry, with a coriaceous skin. — Trees, with oblong 
coriaceous leaves, the axillary flowers crowded towards the end of 
the branches. Distrib. Two other species, one in Natal, the other 
Cuban. 
Leaves three times as long as broad, green beneath . 1. L. calophylloides. 
Leaves twice as long as broad, whitish beneath . . 2. L. glauca. 
1. L. calophylloides, Bojer , Hort . Maur. 199 (name only). A 
tree 30-40 feet high, glabrous in all its parts, with stout branchlets. 
Leaves crowded towards the end of the branchlets, on petioles \ in. 
long, oblong, obtuse, cuneate at the base, 2—4 in. long, very rigid, green 
beneath, with fine immersed erecto-patent veins. Flowers on solitary 
or crowded often drooping pedicels \-l\ in. long. Calyx f in 
