Mala.] xc. EBENACE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) 551 



3. M. ovalifolia, Hiern in Tram. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 113; leaves 

 elliptic or subovate narrowed to a scarcely-acute apex, stamens 13-16. Mac- 

 reightia ovalifolia, Thwaites JEnum. 424 ; Bedd. For. Man. 147. 



CEYLON ; Hinidoon Pattoo, Thwaites. 



A medium-sized tree ; branchlets patently fulvous-hairy soon glabrescent. Leaves 

 3 by 1^ in., base rhomboid or nearly rounded, subcoriaceous, fulvous-hairy beneath 

 when young, soon glabrescent ; petiole \-^ in. Male fl. crowded, sessile ; calyx i in., 

 shortly acutely 3-lobed ; corolla-tube in. ; limb 4-fid (in one example at least) ; 

 stamens glabrous ; ovary-rudiment minute. Female not known. 



** Fruiting calyx cupuliform at the base, often enlarged. 



4. IK. nig rescens, Dalz. in Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 142 ; branchlets 

 patently fulvous-hairy, leaves lanceolate scarcely acute, male fl. subsessile in 

 short cymes, fruits ellipsoid when young with fulvous hairs upwards. Hiern in 

 Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 115. 



WESTERN GHAUTS, from the Concan to Mysore ; Dalzell, Ritchie, &c. 



A tree, 15 to 35 ft. (Ritchie) ; young branches almost shaggy. Leaves 2 by in., 

 narrowed at both ends, fulvous-hairy on the midrib beneath and margins, soon gla- 

 brescent ; primary nerves indistinct, secondary prominently finely reticulated ; petiole 

 | in. Malefl. 1-5 together, 3-4-merous ; calyx in., lobes short triangular; corolla 

 | in,, tube campanulate ; stamens 9 or (in 4-merous flowers) 6-4, glabrous ; rudiment 

 of the ovary hairy. Female fl. 1-2 together, 3-merous ; stamens ; ovary 3-celled. 

 Fruit ^ by ^ in. ; calyx (in fruit) | in. diam., shortly cupuliform. 



5. UK. buxifolia, Pers. Syn. ii. 606 ; branchlets soon glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic or obovate obtuse, flowers 1-3 together subsessile in very short cymes, 

 fruits globose or ellipsoid soon glabrous. Wight *Tc. t. 763 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 

 240 ; Thwaites JEnum. 183 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 116 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. (Anal. Gen.} t. 19, fig. 4, and For. Man. 148, partly; Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. _1877, pt. ii. 232, and For. Fl. ii. 139. M. littorea, Br. Prodr. 527. M. 

 Cumingiana, madagascariensis, guineensis and Smeathmanni, A. DC. I. c. 241. 

 M. neilgherrensis, Wight III. t. 148, bis E. M. Ebenus, Wight Ic. tt. 1228-9, 

 not of Spreny. Maba?, Wall. Cat. 7461. Ferreola buxifolia, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 

 35, t. 45, and Fl. 2nd. iii. 790. 



SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA with CEYLON, common. MALAY PENINSULA ; from PEGU 

 to MALACCA, frequent. DISTRIB. Malay Islds. to N. Australia and the Philippines. 

 Tropical Africa with Madagascar. 



A bush, or in the hills a small tree. Leaves (very variable) -1 in., narrowed at the 

 base, soon glabrescent; primary nerves indistinct, secondary finely reticulated; 

 petiole j~ in. Flowers 3-merous ; calyx ^L in., campanulate, lobes short triangular ; 

 corolla campanulate, lobes oblong. Male fl. : stamens 6-12, glabrous ; ovary-rudiment 

 hairy. Female fl : stamens ; ovary 3-celled ; style 3-lobed at the apex. Fruit f in., 

 1 -seeded; calyx in fruit cupuliform (often very shortly); albumen equable. 



VAB. Ebenus, Thwaites I.e.'; leaves 2^ by 1^ in. elliptic rounded at both ends. 

 M. Ebenus, gp. Wight, comes about half-way between this and the next var. 



Var. angustifolia, Thwaites 1. c. ; leaves 3 by f in. narrowly cuneate at both ends. 

 Except in the glabrate branches this is nearly the same as M. nigrescens. 



6. m. andamanica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 138, and For. 

 Fl. ii. 140 ; leaves large oblong patently hairy on the midrib beneath, female fl. 

 axillary solitary subsessile, berry ellipsoid more than an inch long. Macreightia 

 oblongifolia, Kurz Andam. Rep. 11, not of Thwaites. M. andamanica, Kurz 

 Andam. Rep. ed. ii. 42. See Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 124. 



ANDAMAN ISLDS. ; in the upper forests frequent, Kurz. NICOBAES ; Kurz. 



A shrub, 3-5 ft. ; branchlets hairy. Leaves 8 by 2|- in., abruptly subobtusely 



