Maba. | XC. EBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 551 
3. M. ovalifolia, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 113; leaves 
elliptic or subovate narrowed to a scarcely-acute apex, stamens 13-16. Mac- 
reightia ovalifolia, Thwaites Enum. 424; Bedd. For. Man. 147. 
CEvroN; Hinidoon Pattoo, Thwaites. 
A medium-sized tree; branchlets patently fulvous-hairy soon glabrescent. Leaves 
3 by 1} in. base rhomboid or nearly rounded, subcoriaceous, fulvous-hairy beneath 
when young, soon glabrescent; petiole 1 in. Male fl. crowded, sessile; calyx £ in., 
shortly acutely 3-lobed ; corolla-tube } in.; limb 4-fid (in one example at least); 
stamens glabrous; ovary-rudiment minute. Female not known. 
** Fruiting calyx cupuliform at the base, often enlarged. 
4. M. nigrescens, Dalz. in Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 142; branchlets 
patently fulvous-hairy, leaves lanceolate scarcely acute, male fl. subsessile in 
short cymes, fruits ellipsoid when young with fulvous hairs upwards. Hiern in 
Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 115. , 
Western Gnavrs, from the Concan to Mysore; Dalzell, Ritchie, Se, 
A tree, 15 to 35 ft. (Ritchie); young branches almost shaggy. Leaves 2 by $ in., 
narrowed at both ends, fulvous-hairy on the midrib beneath and margins, soon gla- 
brescent; primary nerves indistinct, secondary prominently finely reticulated ; petiole 
Lin. Male fl. 1-5 together, 3-4-merous ; calyx } in., lobes short triangular; corolla 
1 in, tube campanulate; stamens 9 or (in 4-merous flowers) 6—4, glabrous ; rudiment 
of the ovary hairy. Female fl. 1-2 together, 3-merous; stamens 0; ovary 3-celled. 
Fruit 4 by 3 in.; calyx (in fruit) } in. diam., shortly cupuliform. 
5. M. buxifolia, Pers. Syn. ii. 606; branchlets soon glabrous, leaves 
elliptie or obovate obtuse, flowers 1-3 together subsessile in very short cymes, 
fruits globose or ellipsoid soon glabrous. Wight Ic. t. 763; A. D C. Prodr. viii. 
940; Thwaites Enum. 183; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 116; Bedd. 
Fl. Sylv. (Anal. Gen.) t. 19, fig. 4, and For. Man. 148, partly ; Kurz in Journ. 
As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 232, and For. Fi. ii. 139. M. littorea, Dr. Prodr. 527. M. 
Cumingiana, madagascariensis, guineensis and Smeathmanni, A. DC. l c. 241. 
M. neilgherrensis, Wight Ill. t. 148, bis E. M. Ebenus, Wight Ic. tt. 1228-9, 
not of Spreng. Maba?, Wall.Cat. 7461. Ferreola buxifolia, Roxb. Cor. Pi. i. 
35, t. 45, and FT. Ind. iii. 790. 
Sourn Deccan PENiNsULA with CEvroN, common. Maray PrwiNsULA; from Prov 
to Maracca, frequent.—Drsrnrs. Malay Islds. to N. Australia and the Philippines. 
Tropical Africa with Madagascar. 
A bush, orin the hills a small tree. Leaves (very variable) 1-1 in., narrowed at the 
base, soon glabrescent; primary nerves indistinct, secondary finely reticulated ; 
petiole 3, in. Flowers 3-merous; calyx de in., campanulate, lobes short triangular ; 
corolla campanulate, lobes oblong. Male d : stamens 6-12, glabrous ; ovary-rudiment 
hairy. Female fl: stamens 0; ovary 3-celled; style 3-lobed at the apex. Fruit $ in., 
1-seeded ; calyx in fruit cupuliform (often very shortly); albumen equable. 
Var. Ebenus, Thwaites l.c.; leaves 21 by 1} in. elliptic rounded at both ends.— 
M. Ebenus, sp. Wight, comes about half-way between this and the next var. 
Var. angustifolia, Thwaites 1. ¢. ; leaves 3 by 3 in. narrowly cuneate at both ends. 
—Except in the glabrate branches this is nearly the same as M. nigrescens. 
6. M. andamanica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 138, and For, 
Fi. ii. 140; leaves large oblong patently hairy on the midrib beneath, female fl. 
axillary solitary subsessile, berry ellipsoid more than an inch long. Macreightia 
oblongifolia, Kurz Andam. Rep. 11, not of Thwaites. M. andamanica, Kurz 
Andam. Rep. ed. ii. 49.—See Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii, 124. 
ANDAMAN Isrps.; in the upper forests frequent, Kurz. Nicomams; Kurz. 
A shrub, 3-5 ft.; branchlets hairy. Leaves 8 by 23 in., abruptly subobtusely 
