Maba.| LXXXI. EBENACEM (HIERN). 515 
Ovary densely hairy. 
(Staminodes 0.) Ovary 3-celled. Albumen of the seeds 
uniform. 
Fruiting calyx very small, spreading . . 2. 2... 1, M. Mualala. 
Fruiting calyx somewhat accrescent or not very small, 
cup-shaped. 
Male flowers 3-1 together. Leaves obtuse . . . . 2. M. buvifolia, 
Male flowers several together. Leavesacute . . . 3, M. lancea. 
(Staminodes 3-6). Ovary 6-celled. Albumen of the seeds 
ruminated . 2 6 1 we ee ew ee ew ewe A Me Mannii. 
Ovary quite glabrous. 
Flowers clustered several together. Branches dark green. 
Leaves lanceolate-oblong a 
Female flowers 3-1 together. Branches silvery-ashy. Leaves 
Oval ww Le ee ee 
5. M. abyssinica. 
6. M. quiloénsis. 
1. M. Mualala, Welw. ex Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p.111. A gla- 
brous evergreen tree of 15-35 ft. in the interior or scarcely more than 
a bush of 3-5 ft. near the sea-coast, very rarely flowering; trunk 
strict ; wood very hard, often black in the centre; branches terete. 
Leaves elliptical, in most cases obtusely acuminate, slightly narrowed 
or nearly rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, dark green, glossy, 
delicately reticulated, rather wavy, 14-45 by $-1? in.; midrib de- 
pressed above ; petiole j4,-} in. long. Flowers unknown. Fruit 
Solitary or two together, subsessile, globose, shining, glabrous, black- 
purplish, slightly veiny, 4 in. diameter, 1-celled. Fruiting calyx very 
small, 12 in. diameter, trifid, spreading, glabrate ; lobes ovate, sub- 
acute. Seed solitary, globose, nearly } in. diameter ; albumen uniform. 
Lower Guinea. Loanda (very rare) and Golungo Alto, Welwitsch ! 
Native name Mualald, 
2. M. buxifolia, Pers. Syn. Pl. ii. p. 606 (1807). A much- 
branched shrub with terete branches; young parts more or less fer- 
Tuginous pubescent or hirsute, at length glabrescent. Leaves elliptical 
obovate or lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, more or less wedge-shaped 
at the base, coriaceous or somewhat membranous, often wavy, 4-5 by 
4“ in.; veins inconspicuous, sometimes hairy 3 margin somewhat 
thickened or reflexed; petioles ranging up to } in., sometimes hairy. 
lowers 1-3 together, subsessile, pubescent, about } in. long, arranged 
en the young branches in very short axillary cymes. Calyx yy in. 
ong, campanulate, with 3 short deltoid lobes, somewhat accrescent in 
fruit. Corolla campanulate-oblong, shortly trifid, white ; lobes ellip- 
tical. Stamens 6-12 in the male plant, none in the female, hypogy- 
Rous, glabrous. Ovary hairy, rudimentary in the male plant, 3-celled 
m the female; cells 2-ovuled; style tridentate. Fruit globose or ellip- 
Soidal, 4-2 in. diameter, glabrate. Fruiting calyx cup-shaped, shorter 
n the fruit. Seed solitary; albumen uniform.—Hiern, Monogr. 
en. p. 116, cum syn. Ferreola guineensis, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr, 
min. Pl. p, 448. M. guineensis and M. Smeathmanni, Alph. DC. Prodr. 
vm. p. 241. MM. vacciniefolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fi. p. 442. 
Snare Guinea, (Gold Coast, Thonning; Guinea, Lepricur! Sierra Leone, 
hman ! St. Thomas Island, G. Don! " 12 
