OF THE SIERRA LEONE BOUNDARY COMMISSION. 85 
Lokko, April, no. 56738, seems to be this species. I cannot make 
out any difference in Welwitsch’s other nos. 4830, 4832, 4833, 
of which there is a fine series in the British Museum. 
EBENACER. 
Maza Exxiori, Hiern, sp. nov. 
M. foliis alternis elliptico-ovatis vel lanceolato-oblongis apice 
obtuse acuminatis basi angustatis vel obtusis glabris coriaceis 
fere concoloribus supra nitidis mediocriter petiolatis ; floribus 
masculis trimeris in cymis abbreviatis axillaribus lateralibusve 
paucifloris dispositis, pedicellis brevibus bracteatis, bracteis parvis 
rotundatis minute vel obsolete ciliolatis imbricatis, calyce parvo 
breviter trifido lobis rotundatis minute vel obsolete ciliolatis, 
corolla tubulosé breviter trilob& tubo calycem excedente lobis 
obtusis patulis, staminibus 9 basi corolle insertis antheris lineari- 
bus filamentis glabris, ovario 0; floribus femineis ignotis. 
A bushy tree, 10 to 16 feet high, diccious, glabrous nearly 
throughout. Branches dusky, spreading at about half a right 
angle, leafy ; internodes 3-3 in. long. Leaves quite entire, more 
or less marked above with depressed lines along the midrib and 
along the slender lateral veins, about 6 on each side of the mid- 
rib, grey-green (in the dry state), 23-4 in. long by 13-2 in. 
broad ; margin narrowly recurved; petiole 3-} in. long, rather 
thick and wrinkled when dry. 
In the male plant flowers clustered about 3 together in the 
axils of present or fallen leaves or lateral on the branches, {-} in. 
long. Bracts shorter than the calyx, the outer ones very short. 
Calyx +y-} in. long, campanulate. Corolla considerably exceeding 
the calyx, narrowly urceolate-oblong, toughly fleshy, quite glabrous 
or outside obsoletely puberulous ? ; lobes sinistrorsely contortel 
(as regarded from inside) in the bud. Stamens consisting of 2 
pairs alternating with 3 single ones, in each pair the stamens are 
placed one in front of the other and united by their filaments ; 
the anthers glabrous or sometimes clothed with a few hairs at 
the back on the lower part. 
Sierra Leone; near Musaia, Falaba; in riverside woods, Sth 
March, 1892. Collected by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot, no. 5101, in 
whose honour the species is named. 
Mr. Scott Elliot saw the same species also in the Limba Country 
at Kafogo, where on April 6, 1892, he collected some fruiting 
specimens, no. 5613, of a Maba, perhaps belonging to this same 
