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or terminal : calyx five-toothed or lobed, persistent, sometimes longer than the 
cor ‘olla, which is tubular or eaennaniulaite, shortly five-lobed; stamens, five, 
sessile or sub-sessile at the mouth of the corolla; disc he poanees of five erect 
a scales ; ovary five- or six-celled; style short, strane ovules numerous in each 
cell, ona pendulous placenta. Bruit. a capsule, Chomee than the calyx, five- or 
six-celled, five- or six-valved. 
ORDER 22. MYRSINEA. 
Shrubs or trees, sometimes prostrate. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, simple, 
glandular, dotted. Flowers small, usually perfect, often glandular: calyx 
inferior or superior, four- or five- iba corolla four- or five-lobed, or petals rarely 
free ; stamens, four or five, filaments fue or united, usually epipetalous ; ovary 
free or inferior, one-celled; style simple; stigma entire or lobed. Fruit, a drupe 
or berry, indehiscent, one- or several-seeded, seeds sometimes with several 
embryos; endosperm fleshy ; embryo transverse. 
Genus I. Myrsine, Linné. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes prostrate, rarely with recurved rigid branches. 
Flowers perfect or polygamous: calyx inferior, four- or five-lobed, rarely bifid or 
absent; corolla four- or five-lobed nearly to the base or free, tips reflexed ; 
stamens four or five, inserted at the base of the petals or free; ovary superior, 
one-celled; style short, or stigma sessile, concave, or fimbriated; ovules, one to 
five. Fruit, a berry or drupe; seeds, one or several. 
ORDER 23. SAPOTEA. 
Trees or shrubs, with milky juice. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, entire. 
Flowers perfect or unisexual or polygamous, solitary or fascicled, axillary: calyx 
; inferior, four- to eight-toothed or lobed; corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, four- 
to eight-lobed, imbricate ; stamens, four to sixteen, sometimes with alternating 
staminodia ; ovary superior, two- to twelve-celled, with one ovule in each cell. 
Fruit, a drupe or berry, one- to four-seeded; seeds usually polished, with a long 
oblique hilum, endosperm fleshy, copious, scanty, or absent, cotyledons broad, 
sometimes fleshy, radicle inferior. 
* This order includes many species which furnish hard durable timber. Bassza 
Parkii produces the shea butter of Western Africa ; Isonandra gutta, of the Malay 
Archipelago, yields the valuable resinous substance known as gutta percha; 
the star apple, Chryvsophyllum Cainita, the West Indian medlar, Mimusops Eee 
and other species afford excellent fruit. 
GENUS I. SIDEROXYLON, Linneé. 
Trees, with milky juice. Flowers bisexual or polygamous: calyx four- to 
six-lobed ; corolla monopetalous, four- to six-lobed, hypogynous; stamens, four 
to six, inserted on the corolla; filaments short, often alternating with imperfect 
stamens; ovary superior, hirsute, two- to twelve-celled; ovules solitary in each 
cell; style simple; stigma simple or lobed. Fruit, a drupe or berry, one- to 
four-seeded ; seeds elongate, shining, hilum long, linear or broad, endosperm 
copious, fleshy, cotyledons usually thin, radicle short. 
OrpvEer 24. JASMINE. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves.opposite, exstipulate. Flowers perfect or uni- 
sexual, sometimes apetalous: calyx small, two- to four-toothed, inferior; corolla 
usually monopetalous, sometimes absent, valvate; stamens, two or, rarely, four, 
epipetalous or, rarely, hypogynous ; ovary, two-celled, superior; ovules usually 
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