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•15 in. long. Male floivers about -15 in. long, 8 or 10 together in dense 

 sessile axillary clusters not much exceeding the petioles. Calyx sessile 

 or nearly so, campanulate, slightly pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 

 deeply divided into 3 broadly ovate acute lobes. Corolla tubular ; 

 adpressed-sericeous externally, glabrous inside, cut half-way down into 

 3 ovate acute lobes. Stamens 12, 6 of them united by the bases of 

 their filaments ; anthers of all lanceolate apiculate, their bases cordate. 

 Female flower not known. Fruit obliquely ellipsoid, the apex shortly 

 apiculate, glabrous ; the calyx at the base sub-ligneous, flat, deeply 

 divided into 3 broad ovate-rotund lobes with reflexed edges and blunt 

 tips. Seeds 2, oblong. 



Peeak : Wi-ay 3130 ; King's Collector 3945, 5519. 



7. Maba buxifolia, Pers. Syn, II. (1807) 606. A bush or small tree ; 

 young branches puberulous at first, ultimately glabrous. Leaves 

 small, alternate, coriaceous; varying from elliptic to obovate, the 

 apex sub-acute or obtuse, the base always narrowed ; upper surface 

 olivaceous, the lower brown ; the midrib bold ; reticulations rather 

 distinct on the upper surface only ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, spreading, 

 slightly prominent on the upper surface, indistinct on the lower ; edges 

 slightly recurved ; length -35 to 1 in. ; breadth -3 to -6 in. ; larger in the 

 varieties ; petiole less than -5 in. Flowers solitary, or 2 to 3 in short 

 cymes, 3-merous. Calyx -1 in. long, campanulate, with short triangular 

 lobes. Corolla campanulate with short triangular lobes. Male flowers : 

 stamens 6 to 12, glabrous ; rudimentary ovary hairy. Female flower : 

 stamens none ; ovary 3 -celled ; style at the apex 3-lobed, Fruit 

 globose or ellipsoid, -35 in. long, 1-seeded. Calyx at its base 

 cupular, often very short ; albumen equable. Wight Ic. t. 763 ; A. DC. 

 Prod. VIII. 240; Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 183; Trimen PI. 

 Ceyl. III. 89; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 116; Kurz 

 For. Fl. II. 139 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 551. M, 

 littorea, Br. Prod. 527. M. Cumingiana, M. madagascariensis, M. 

 guineensis, M. Smithiana, A. DC. I.e. 241. M. neilghcrrensis, Wight 

 111. t. 148 bis. B. M. Ebenus, Wight Ic. tt. 1288-9 {not of Spreng.). 

 Maba ? Wall. Cat. 7461. Ferreola buxifolia, Eoxb. Cor. PI. I. 35, t. 45, 

 and Fl. Ind. III. 790. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 979 ; Griffith (K.D.) 3641. Langkawi : 

 Curtis 2557. Penang: Curtis 708. — Disteib. Malay Archipelago, 

 Br. India, N. Australia, Philippines, tropical Africa. 



A variable species, of which two varieties are recognised by Mr. C. B. Clarke in 

 Hooker's "Flora of British India." Both these have leaves longer than as above 

 described, but neither occurs in our region. 



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