Maha.l Lxxxi. ecenacevE (hiern). 515 



Ovary densely hairy. 



(Staminodes 0.) Ovary 3-oelled. Albumen of the seeds 

 uniform. 



Fruiting calyx very small, spreading 1. M. Miuilala. 



Fruiting calyx somewhat accrescent or not very small, 

 cup- shaped, 

 Male flowers 3-1 together. Leaves obtuse . . . . 2. M, buxifolia, 

 Male flowers several together. Loaves acute . . . 3. ilf. lancea. 

 (Staminodes 3-6). Ovary 6-celled. Albumen of the seeds 



nmiinated 4. ilf. Mannii. 



Ovary quite glabrous. 

 Flowers clustered several together. Branches dark green. 



Leaves lanceolate-oblong 6. ilf. ahyssinica. 



Female flowers 3-1 together. Branches silvery-ashy. Leaves 



oval 6. ilf. qitilomsis. 



1. UK. JMCualala, Welw. ex Hieni, Monogr. Ehen. p. 111. A gla- 

 brous evergreen tree of 15-35 ft. in the interior or scarcely more than 

 a bush of 3-5 ft. near the sea-coast, very rarely flowering ; trunk 

 strict ; wood very hard, often black in the centre ; branches terete. 

 Leaves elliptical, in most cases obtnsely acuminate, slightly narrowed 

 or nearly rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, dark green, glossy, 

 delicately reticulated, rather wavy, 1^-4^ by *-l| in. ; midrib de- 

 pressed above; petiole y^a"! ^^- l^^g- Flowers unknown. Fruit 

 solitary or two together, subsessile, globose, shining, glabrous, black- 

 purplish, slightly veiny, ^ in. diameter, 1 -celled. Fruiting calyx very 

 small, \—^ in. diameter, trifid, spreading, glabrate ; lobes ovate, sub- 

 acute. Seed solitary, globose, nearly ^ in. diameter ; albumen uniform. 



ILower Crulnea. Loanda (very rare) and Golungo Alto, Welwitsch ! 

 Native name Mualald. 



2. M. buxifolia, Pers. Syn. PI. ii. p. 606 (1807). A much- 

 branched shrub with terete branches ; young parts more or less fer- 

 ruginous pubescent or hirsute, at length glabrescent. Leaves elliptical 

 obovate or lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, more or less wedge-shaped 

 at the base, coriaceous or somewhat membranous, often wavy, J-5 by 

 J-2 in. ; veins inconspicuous, sometimes hairy ; margin somewhat 

 thickened or reflexed; petioles ranging up to ^ in., sometimes hairy. 

 Flowers 1-3 together, subsessile, pubescent, about -} in. long, arranged 

 on the young branches in very short axillary cymes. Calyx ^ in. 

 long, campanulate, with 3 short deltoid lobes, somewhat accrescent in 

 fruit. Corolla campanulate- oblong, shortly trifid, white ; lobes ellip- 

 tical. Stamens 6-12 in the male plant, none in the female, hypogy- 

 nous, glabrous. Ovary hairy, rudimentary in the male plant, 3-celled 

 in the female; cells 2-ovuled ; style tridentate. . Fruit globose or ellip- 

 soidal, ^f in. diameter, glabrate. Fruiting calyx cup-shaped, shorter 

 than the fruit. Seed solitary; albumen uniform. — Hiern, Monogr. 

 Eben. p. 116, cum syn. Ferreola guineensis, Schum. et Thonn. Bcskr. 

 G-uin. PI. p. 448. M. gumeensis and Jlf. Smeathmanni, Alph. DC. Prodr. 

 viii. p. 241. M. vaccinicefoUa^ Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 442. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Thonninc/ ; Guinea, Leprienr ! Sierra Leoiic. 

 Snieathman ! St. Thomas Island, G. Don ! 



