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MR HIEEN, ON EBENACE^. 



1. FERREOLA. 



Fruit reddish, brown, or dark-coloured. 



Fruiting calyx very small, usually not cupuliform, flat or reflexed. <J flowers tubular. 

 Fruit subglabrous, shining. Fruiting calyx trifid. 



Fuliginous-hispid. Leaves about 1 in. long. 1. M. diffusa, 



Glabrescent. Leaves 1^ 4J in. long. 



Fruit globose, J in. in diameter. Calyx glabrate. 2. M. Mualala. 



Fruit ellipsoidal-oblique, in. long. Calyx somewhat hairy. 3. M. hemicycloides. 

 Fruit tomentose. Fruiting calyx tripartite. 



Stamens 4 5. 4. M. acuminata. 



Stamens 12 16. 



Leaves' oblong. Stamens about 12. 5. M. oblongifolia. 



Leaves oblong-ovate. Stamens 13 16. 6. M. ovalifolia. 



Fruiting calyx accrescent or not very small, usually cupuliform (sometimes small in M. 

 buxifolia). 



flowers subsessile in short cymes. 9 flowers sessile or subsessile. 

 Fruit hairy. <J flowers with tubular corolla. 

 Stamens 3 6 (-7). Flowers trimerous. 



Leaves cordate at base, subsessile. 7. M.foliosa. 



Leaves not cordate at base, shortly petiolate. 8. M. rufa, 



Stamens 9 (in trimerous flowers, 4 in a tetramerous one). 



Leaves glabrous, elliptical. 

 Leaves hairy, lanceolate-oblong. 

 Fruit subglabrate. Corolla campauulate. 

 Leaves without conspicuous net-veins. 



Calyx hairy. Leaves usually more than 1| in. long. 

 Branches nigro-verrucose. Stamens 15 17. 

 Branches smooth. Stamens 6 12. 

 flowers 1 3 together. 

 <5 flowers several together. 



Leaves lanceolate, paler beneath. 



9. M. laurina. 



10. M. nigrescens. 



11. M.sandwicensis. 



12. M. humfolia. 



13. M. lancea. 



Leaves obovate, of same colour on both sides. 



14. M. obovata. 



15. M. geminata. 



flowers solitary, 

 flowers 3 together. 



Calyx glabrous, at least in fruit. Leaves about 1 in. long. 16. M. humilis. 

 Leaves highly reticular. 



Bracts not much imbricated. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, about 2 in. long. 

 Leaves elliptical, 3 4 in. long. 

 Bracts much imbricated. 



<J flowers pedicelled in manifest cymes. 5 corolla tubular. 

 Stamens 3 6. Leaves oval, obtuse, glabrescent. 

 Stamens 9. Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, hairy. 

 Fruit covered with white efflorescence. 



17. M. reticulata. 



18. M. compacta. 



19. M. Hillebrandii. 

 ? flowers stalked. 



20. M. elliptica. 



21. M. sumatrana. 



22. M. Vieillardi. 

 Cfr. [23. M. major. 



24. M. Andersoni.] 



