550 XC. EBENACER. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Maba. 
inferior, gamosepalous, in fruit often accrescent. Corolla gamopetalous, often 
hairy without. Stamens as many or 2-3 times as many as the corolla-lobes, 
hypogynous, free or filaments paired or variously salted. ; anthers narrow, de- 
hiscing longitudinally ; staminodes in the female flower resembling stamens or 
0. Ovary superior, sessile; styles 2-8; cells as many or twice as many as 
the styles, imperfectly septate ; ovules twice as many as the styles, attached 
to the interior angle of the cells, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit coriaceous or 
fleshy, indehiscent, several- or few-seeded. Seeds pendulous, usually oblong, 
longitudinally 2—3-furrowed, testa thin, albumen copious equable or ruminated ; 
embryo axile, radicle superior.—Species 250, in the tropics of the whole world ; 
a few species in South Africa and North America. 
Flowers often 3-merous. Ovary 3- or 6-celled , . . . . . . . 1. Mama, 
Flowers mostly 4—5-merous. Ovary 4—5- or 8-10-celled |. . . . 2. Diospyros, 
l. MA BA, J. R. $ G. Forst. 
Trees or shrubs. eaves alternate, entire. Flowers dicecious (moncecious in 
M. Maingayi), axillary, short-pedicelled or in small dense cymes; usually 3- 
merous, rarely 4-5-merous. Calyx 3-5-partite or 3-5-fid, rarely subtruncate, 
often cupuliform and enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube usually longer than the 
calyx, lobes 8, twisted to the right-hand. Male flowers: stamens 3-22; fila- 
ments distinct, paired or otherwise united ; anthers oblong ; ovary rudimentary, 
Female flowers: staminodes 0-12; ovary 3-celled, or 6-celled, or 3-celled with 
imperfect dissepiments between the ovules; 6-ovulate. Fruit ellipsoid or 
eng glabrous or hairy, 1-6-celled, 1—6-seeded. Albumen not ruminated 
(where known) in any of the Indian species except M. Maingayi.—DISTRIB. 
Species 60, in the tropies of both hemispheres and frequent in Australia and 
Polynesia. 
Srcr. I. Ferreola (Hiern in Trans. Oamb. Phil. Soc. xii. 107). Calyx- 
lobes not much imbricated. Ovary densely hairy. 
* Fruiting calyx small, 3-partite, patent or reflexed. 
1. M. acuminata, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 112; leaves 
elliptic much acuminate, stamens 4—5, fruit } in. diam, tomentose. Macreightia 
acuminata, Thwaites Enum. 424; Bedd. For. Man, 147. 
Cryton; Hinidoon Pattoo, Thwaites. 
A medium-sized tree; branchlets fulvo-sericeous, soon glabrescent. Leaves 3 by 
1-1} in. thinly coriaceous, soon glabrescent; base rhomboid or almost rounded; 
petiole in. Male fl.: calyx à in.; corolla-tube + in.; rudiment of ovary oblong, 
acute, pilose. 
2. M. oblongifolia, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc, xii. 112; leaves 
oblong or elliptic acuminate, stamens about 12, fruit 2-1 in. diam. brown 
tomentose almost hirsute. Macreightia oblongifolia, Thwaites Enum. 183; 
Bedd. Fl. Sylv. (Anal. Gen.) t. 21, fig. 1, and For. Man. 147, not of Kurz. 
Cryton ` Galle and Ratnapoora, Thwaites. 
A small tree; branchlets patently fulvous-hairy, at length glabrescent. Leaves 
6 by 24 in., base rounded, subcoriaceous, patently fuivous hairy on the nerves beneath, 
ultimately glabrous; petiole 4-4 in. Male fl. crowded, sessile; calyx 1 in., shortly 
3-lobed ; corolla-tube 7 in., limb 3-fid ; stamens glabrous; rudiment of ovary minute, 
pilose. Female fl. solitary, subsessile; calyx } in., divided nearly to the base; 
corolla-limb 3-fid ; stamens 0; ovary 3-celled, style divided into 3 glabrous stigmas, 
Fruit 3 -6-seeded. Seeds $ by å in., black, albumen equable. . 
