88 EbenacecB. [Maba. 



I. BIABA, Forst. 



Small trees, 1. alt., entire, buds with distichous overlapping 

 scales, young parts hairy ; fl. small, unisexual, dioecious, 

 solitary or few in axils ; cal. small, sometimes enlarged with 

 fruit, segm, 3, short ; cor.-tube cylindrical, lobes 3 (very 

 rarely 4), contorted ; stam. 4-16, inserted at very base of 

 cor., often very unequal ; ov. 3- (or apparently 6-) celled, with 

 6 ovules, stigma 3-lobed ; fruit dry or slightly fleshy, inde- 

 hiscent, i-6-celled and -seeded; seed large, embryo straight, 

 axile, endosperm not ruminate. — Sp. 60 ; 9 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Cal. small, not cup-like with fruit. 

 L. small (under 3^ in.) 



L. thin, long-acuminate . . . i. M. ACUMINATA. 



L. coriaceous, short-acuminate . . 2. M. ovalifolia. 



L. large (over 3^ in.) 3. M. OBLONGIFOLIA. 



Cal. enlarged and cup-like with fruit . . 4. M. buxifolia. 



1. M. acuminata, Hiern^ Mon. Eben. 112 (1873). 

 Macreightia acuminata, Thw. Enum. 424. C. P. 3718. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 550. 



A small tree with slender branchlets, bark blackish, young 

 parts with long silky hair ; 1. on very short petioles, oval, 

 2\-i\ in., obtuse at base, caudate-acuminate, subacute, quite 

 glabrous when mature but silky when young, thin, venation 

 rather conspicuous beneath, lat. veins about 7 ; fl. sessile, 1-3 

 together, in axils of bud-scales at base of young shoots below 

 the 1., cal. very silky; cor.-tube twice as long as cal., densely 

 silky ; stam. 4 or 5 ; ov. very hairy ; fruit globose, over \ in., 

 sparsely silky-hairy. 



Moist low country below 1000 ft., very rare. Hiniduma (Thwaites) ; 

 Singhe Raja Forest (Lewis). Fl. Feb., March. 

 Endemic. 



2. m. ovalifolia, Hiern, Mon. Eben. 113 (1873). 

 MacreijL^htia ovalifolia, Thw. Enum. 424. C. P. 3717. 

 Fl. B. ind. iii. 551. 



A small tree, bark blackish, young parts sparsely covered 

 with long hairs ; 1. 2-3^ in., ovate-oval, rounded at base, shortly 

 and bluntly acuminate, glabrous and shining when mature or 

 with a few hairs on midrib beneath, coriaceous, venation rather 

 prominent beneath, lat. veins 5 or 6, petiole \ in., stout; fl. 

 nearly sessile on the young shoots below the 1. (fem. not 

 seen); cal. with long hairs ; stam. 13-16; fruit not seen. 



