Sideroxylon.] 
SAPOTACEiE. 
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imbricated, the three inner not quite so obtuse as the two outer. 
Petals lingulate, as long as the sepals. Anthers lanceolate-sagittate, 
exserted, half as long as the glabrous filaments. S. Corsanii, 
Bojer, MSS. 
Mauritius, in woods of the Pouce, etc. Endemic. 
2. S. attenuatum, A. DC. Prod. yiii. 178. A tree about 20 feet 
high, glabrous in all its parts, with slender branches. Leaves not 
crowded at the end of the branches, glossy, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 
cuneate at the base, 3-5 in. long ; petiole J in. long. Flowers 6-12 in 
a fascicle, both from the axils of the leaves and below them on the 
branch, on glabrous pedicels i— g- in. long. Sepals ± in. long, obtuse, 
much imbricated. Petals obovate, as long as the sepals. Stamens 
very short. Drupe glossy, \ in. long and thick. S. ferrugineum, Hook, 
and Am. Bot. Beech., 266, t. 25. 
Seychelles, not uncommon in the woods of Mahe and Praslin, Horne , 406 ! 
Tropical Asia, not Africa. 
3. S. Bojerianum, A. DC. Prod. viii. 179. A tall tree, with stout 
rugose grey branches with close much-raised nodes from which the 
flowers spring. Leaves obovate-oblong, glabrous, obtuse, cuneate at 
the bases, rigidly coriaceous, 3-9 in. long, finely reticulato-venulose ; 
petiole 1-1| in. long. Flowers 3-12 in a fascicle, on very short ferru- 
gineo-tomentose pedicels. Sepals -J- in. long, all very obtuse, ferrugineo- 
tomentose. Petals lingulate, as long as the sepals. Stamens in- 
cluded, the obtuse anthers about as long as the filament. Drupe the 
size of a large pea, naked, 1-seeded. S. cinereum, Bojer, ILort. Maur. 
197, an Lam. ? 
Var. S. p UBEittJLTJM, A. DC. Prod. viii. 179. Petioles and leaves 
below at first matted with ferruginous tomentum like that which 
clothes the pedicels and sepals. Petals longer than the sepals. 
Mauritius, common in forests through the island. I have no material for dis- 
tinctly separating from this S. parviflorum, longifolium and imbricarioides, A. DC . 
Prod. viii. 179-184. The same or a very closely allied species occurs in Bourbon. 
Bois cendre. 
4. S. grandiflorum, A. DC. Prod. viii. 180. A tree with stout 
terete branchlets. Leaves crowded at the end of the branches ; petiole 
in. long ; blade obovate-oblong, cuneate at the base, obtuse or 
shortly cuspidate, coriaceous, glabrous, with raised veins. Flowers 
1-3 together, the nodes little raised ; pedicels % in. long, ferrugineo- 
tomentose. Calyx i in. long ; sepals all broad and very obtuse, ferru- 
gineo-tomentose. Petals lingulate, as long as the sepals. Anthers 
obtuse, oblong, in. long, equalling the filaments. Drupe the size of 
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