Imbricaria.~\ 
sapotacea;. 
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oblong-lanceolate, acute ; staminodes 8, pilose. Ovary globose, 
pilose, 8-celled. Drupe globose, with mostly only one or two seeds. 
— Trees, with distinctly-petioled entire shining coriaceous leaves, 
the flowers on long pedicels in their axils. Distrib. Species 4, the 
other Tropical African. 
Leaves oblong, twice as long as broad. 
Leaves large 1.1. maxima. 
Leaves small 2. I. media. 
Leaves round-oblong, not much longer than broad .... 3. I. petiolaris. 
1. I. maxima, Voir. ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 200. A tree, with stout 
rugose grey glabrous branches. Leaves oblong, glabrous, shining, 
rigidly coriaceous, obtuse, 4-6 in. long by half as broad, deltoid at the 
base ; petiole 1-1^ in., brown-silky or glabrescent. Pedicels 1-3-uate, 
cernuous, rather shorter than the petiole, brown-silky. Calyx f in. 
long, the 4 outer lobes coriaceous, lanceolate-deltoid, acute, brown- 
silky, the 4 inner thinner, whitish. Petals and stamens as long as the 
calyx, the outer petals 2-4-cleft. Drupe globose, glabrous, the size 
of a small apple, 1-4 seeded. Mimusops Imbricaria, Willd. ; Bojer , 
Port. Maur. 198. M. retusa, Willem. ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 207 ? 
Mauritius, in the thick woods of the interior. Also Bourbon. Bois de Natte a 
grandes feuilles , Nattier , Bardotier. 
2. I. media, Bojer , MSS. Very near I. maxima, and perhaps a 
mere variety grown in more exposed places. Leaf oblong, 2-2^ in. 
long by half as broad, obtuse, rounded at both ends, glabrous, shining 
above, very rigid and coriaceous ; petiole 1-1^ in. long. Pedicels ^ in. 
long, solitary, cernuous, clothed like the outer sepals with brown-drab 
tomentum. Flower exactly of I. maxima. 
Mauritius, in mountain woods, J. Grey ! Endemic. 
3. I. petiolaris, A. DC. Prod. viii. 200. A tree 40-50 ft. high, 
with stout rugose grey glabrous branchlets. Leaves round-oblong, 
glabrous, 2-3 in. long and nearly as broad, rather thinner and more 
flexible than in the other species, obtuse, rounded to both ends ; petiole 
2-3 in. long, obscurely brown-silky. Flowers 2-3-nate in the axils of 
the leaves, on cernuous brown-silky pedicels about an inch long. Calyx 
f in. long. Petals and stamens as long as the calyx, the outer row of 
the former deeply 4—5-fid. 
Mauritius, in mountain woods. Endemic. 
The Bois de Natte of the Seychelles (Horne, 361, 362) is probably an unnamed 
species of Imbricaria , but we have no flowers. So far as the specimens go, the habit 
is just like that of I. maxima , but the petioles are shorter and leaves less coriaceous 
in texture and broader in proportion to the length (3-6 in. by 2-3£ in.). It is 
a large tree, growing on the mountains of Mahe, with an oblong yellow drupe 
1* in. long by f in. broad. The Madagascar I. coriacea , A. DC. Prod. viii. 200 ( Mi mu - 
sops hexandra , Bojer), cultivated in Mauritius, belongs to the genus Labramia , 
which differs from Imbricaria by the absence of staminodes, 
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