Isonandra
(from isos, equal, and aner, andros, the stamen; number of fertile and barren stamens equal). ORD. Sapotaceae. A genus comprising six species of glabrous or pubescent milk-bearing trees, natives of India and Ceylon. Flowers small, inconspicuous, produced in little clusters, either in the angles of the leaves or at the ends of the young branches. Leaves entire, leathery. The species described below is a stove evergreen tree, of great commercial value and utility. It thrives in a compost of sandy peat and fibry loam. Increased by cuttings, inserted in sandy soil, under a bell glass, in heat. I. gutta (Gutta). Gutta-percha Tree. fl. inconspicuous, disposed in small axillary or terminal clusters. l. entire, coriaceous. Borneo, 1847. The correct name of this tree, which yields the well-known Gutta-percha of commerce, is Dichopsis gutta.