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two in each fascicle on a short densely hairy pedicel, rotate, "3 or -4 in. ' 

 in diam. Calyx very coriaceous, divided to the base into 3 spreading 

 broadly ovate lobes with broad blunt apices and concave bases, partly 

 adpressed-pilose and partly glabrescent. Corolla smaller and lesa 

 coriaceous than the calyx, tubular, glabrous, its lobes ovate-elliptic. 

 Male flowers with 6 stamens in 2 rows, 3 of them small ; 

 anthers cordate, filaments flat ; rudimentary ovary ovoid, apiculate, 

 with a dense ring of coarse hair at its base. Female flowers with a 

 few flat staminodes ; the ovary broadly ovoid apiculate, hirsute in its 

 lower part ; styles 3, glabrous, distinct, the stigmas broad. Fruit 

 ovoid-globular, glabrous, -75 in. long and -6 in. in diam., blunt at apex 

 and base, the latter subtended by the 3- sometimes 4-lobed, thick, 

 almost woody, accrescent calyx, its lobes spreading, their edges reflexed. 

 Seeds elliptic, plano-convex. Diospyros venosa, Wall. Cat. 4126. 

 Singapore : Bidley 4961 ; King's Collector 3495, 3862, 7643. 



3. Maba olivacea, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 50 to 70 feet 

 high ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, puberulous, pale 

 cinereous when dry. Leaves coriaceous, alternate ; elliptic, shortly and 

 abruptly apiculate, the base rounded or cuneate, the edges much 

 recurved when dry ; upper surface olivaceous, shining, glabrous except 

 the depressed rusty-puberulous midrib ; lower surface softly velvety- 

 pubescent, olivaceous, the hair on the bold midrib and 5 to 8 pairs 

 of curved spreading rather prominent main-nerves rusty ; length 3 to 

 5-5 in. ; breadth 1-5 to 2-25 in. ; petiole -4 in., tomentose. Male floioers 

 sessile, "15 in. long, in branched condensed axillary and extra-axillary 

 cymes less than 1 in. long ; bracteoles broad, blunt, small. Calyx "1 in. 

 long, tubular-campanulate, tomentose outside, glabrous inside, divided 

 nearly to the base into 4 broadly ovate obtuse erect lobes. Corolla 

 cylindric-campanulate, glabrous except the hairy edges of the 4 oblong 

 lobes. Stamens 8 large and 4 small, lanceolate, on short filaments. 

 Female floivers not seen. Friiit ellipsoid, blunt at each end, the apex 

 crowned by the short style, glabrous, about '5 in. long, and '4 in. in 

 diam. Calyx at the base of the fruit thick, spreading, -6 in. across, 

 with 4 ovate, blunt lobes with reflexed edges. 



Perak : King's Collector 7877 ; Wray 1269. Lankawi : Curtis 

 1661. 



4. Maba merguensis, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 134 

 (1873). A small, nearly glabrous tree; young branches thicker than a 

 crow-quill. Leaves alternate, thinly coriaceous, ovate or elliptic, shortly 

 and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded ; main-nerves 3 to 

 5 pairs, slightly curved, ascending ; length 3 to 5*5 in. ; breadth 1-65 

 to 2-65 in. ; petiole about "25 in. long. Male floioers in dense minutely 



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