DUAE RT, ee, 
552 XC. EBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Maba. 
acuminate, narrowed towards the subcordate base, soon glabrescent; petiole 1-3 in. 
Male fl. : in short-peduneled small cymes; calyx 4 in., lobes 3, acute; corolla fulvous- 
hairy without; stamens 8, glabrous. Female fl. on pedicels 35 in.; bracts minute; 
calyx i in., campanulate, deeply 3-lobed; eorolla-tube somewhat widened, con- 
stricted under the limb, lobes oblong acute (Kurz); ovary 3-celled. Berries rather 
dry, mucronate, smooth, usuelly 3-seeded. Seeds (Kurz) $ by 1 in., albumen equable. 
Srcr. Il. Holochilus, gen. Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 290 (cha- 
racter widened to include /thipidostigma (gen.), Hassk. Retz. 103). Calyx-lobes 
not much imbricated. Ovary glabrous, 
7. M. micrantha, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 133; leaves 
elliptic-oblong glabrous, female fl. axillary solitary sessile, calyx truncate sub- 
entire. Holochilus micranthus, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 291; Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 142; Bedd. For. Man. 147. 
Bompay ; Syhadree Hill, Dalzell. 
A middle-sized tree; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 43 by 1} in., narrowed at both 
ends, widest towards the base, coriaceous ; petiole 4-4 in., obseurely rusty-puberulous. 
Male fl. unknown, Female fl.: calyx d in., tubular; corolla 1 in., tubular, 3-lobed 
nearly half-way down; staminodes 6, distinct ; ovary 6-celled; styles 3, erect, rather 
thick, tip obtuse. Fruit 1 by 4 in., 6-celled, 6-seeded ; calyx in fruit } in. long and 
as much broad, funnel-shaped. 
8. M. merguensis, Hiern in. Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 134; leaves 
ovate or oblong glabrous, female fl. in dense small axillary cymes, calyx lobed 
half-way down. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc, 1877, pt. ii. 232, and For. Fl ii. 189, 
Mercuri; Griffith, Helfer. —DisrnrB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
A small tree; nearly glabrous. Leaves 6 by 22 in., subobtusely acuminate, base 
obtusely rhomboid or almost, rounded ; petiole 4-4 in. Male fl. in compound dense 
minutely pubescent cymes 1-1} in. diam. ; calyx d in., 4- (rarely 3-) merous, lobes 
triangular or obtuse ; corolla i5 in., shortly 4-3-lobed : stamens 14-16, glabrous; 
ovary rudimentary. Female fi.: calyx } in., 4- (rarely 3-) merous, lobed half-way 
down; corolla 1 in., 4-3-merous ` staminodes 3 or 6; ovary-cells 6, 1-ovulate; styles 
3, distant, glabrous. Fruit A by 4 in.; calyx in fruit $ in. diam., lobes ovate spread- 
ing. Albumen equable.-— Kurz l.c. proposes to remove this species to Diospyros, to 
which in its glabrousness, its usually 4-merous flowers, and the large spreading lobes 
of the calyx in fruit, it shows much affinity. 
Srcr. III. Barberia (Hiern in Trans, Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 107). Calyx- 
lobes rounded, much imbricated. 
9. M. Maingayi, Miern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 188; leaves 
elliptic or somewhat obovate finally glabrous, fascicles of female fl. 2-5-fld. 
axillary, flowers 4- (sometimes 5-) merous, flowers and fruits large. 
Matacca ; Maingay.—Distrm. Borneo. 
A monecious tree (Maingay); branchlets furfuraceous or subtomentose, soon 
glabrous. Leaves 4 by 2} in., obtuse, base cuneate, coriaceous ; petiole} in. Male 
Ji.: calyx 4-partite ; corolla-limb 4-partite, stamens 22 (Maingay). Female A: 
pedicels 1-3 in., densely rusty-woolly ; calyx } in., wide-campanulate, rusty-woolly, 
lobes short ` corolla tube } in., glabrous below suddenly dilated upwards, lobes } in., 
narrow ; style short, tip 3-lobed ; ovary narrowly-oblong, glabrous, cells 3, 2-ovulate. 
Fruits 14-2 by 1 in., ellipsoid, 3-1-celled, cells 1_0-seeded ` calyx-tube in fruit solid, 
cylindric, } by + in. ; lobes in fruit horizontal, } in. diam., round, imbrieate. Seed 1 
by }in., cylindric ; albumen strongly ruminated.— The flowers are not in a good state 
for examination, and the ovaries may perhaps not prove always 3-celled ; but Hiern's 
dissections show conclusively that each cell contains two oblong erect ovules. 
