274 EBENACEAR. [| Maba. 
Orper XLVII. EBENACEAE. 
Flowers regular, usually dioecious. Calyx free, 3—5-lobed, or rarely 
with 6 or 7 lobes. Corolla-lobes as many, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 
inserted at the base of the corolla or on the torus within it, numerous, 
usually about 15 in the male flowers, much fewer and sterile in the 
female; anthers erect, linear or oblong. Ovary free, 3- or more-celled, 
with 1 or 2 pendulous ovules in each cell. Styles as many or half as 
many as cells, distinct or more or less united, simple or 2-cleft, with small 
terminal stigmas. Fruit a fleshy or dry berry, ete techies Seeds 
albuminous; embryo axile, with a superior radicle and foliaceous cotyledons. 
— Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, without stipules. Flowers 
axillary, the female often solitary, the male usually clustered or in small 
ymes. 
A small tropical and subtropical Order. 
1. MABA, Forst. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx cup-shaped, 3-fid, permanent. Corolla campa- 
nulate, 3-fid, the lobes convolute in the bud. Male fl. Stamens 3—18, 
distinct or eae connate, the anthers opening laterally. Ovary rudimen- 
tary. Fem. fl. Stamens none or imperfect and fewer than in the male fl. 
Ovary 3-celled oe 2 ovules or 6-celled with 1 ovule in each cell. Styles 
or style-branches 3. Fruit indehiscent, dry or fleshy, 6—1-seeded, the 
albumen sometimes ruminate. — Hard-wooded trees or shrubs. Flowers 
pe or clustered on axillary nodes, emall, subsessile. 
0 species, natives of the tropics of ee orlds. 
ape’ OT at on both faces; calyx hairy, with o lobes Sandwicensis. 
wrinkled on the upper es calyx glabrous, ae acute lobes ‘ x Hillebrandii. 
1. M. Sandwicensis, A. DC. Prod. VIII, 242. — A tree, 20—40 ft. 
- Leavegdistichous, distant, coriaceous, with hidden veins, pale 
ulliptico- or ovato-oblong, 1'/2—2‘  1/2—1', on petioles of 2-3", 8: shortly 
acuminate, entire, glabrous, but silky-haired when young. Flowers single, 
rarely the male in clusters of 2—5, the very short peduncle covered 
broad obtuse lobes. Corolla cori iaceous, urceolate, 21/2—3”, densely hairy 
in the upper half, 3-toothed with blunt doniiveiit teeth or lobules which 
are sinistrorsely convolute in the bud. Male fl. Stamens free, 1 12—18, 
around the hirsute rudiment of an ovary, 1/s the length of the corolla, 
glabrous; the anthers short oblong, with a broad connective, as long 4 
the filamen 
em. fl. without stamens; the ovary hairy, with a Very — 
short 3- rayed style. Fruit dry, ovoid, with chartaceous pericarp, about 
