112 ME HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 



A small tree; branchlets slender, somewhat hirsute with dark hairs at extremities, 

 quickly glabrescent, dark cinereous or brown, terete. Leaves elliptical or oblong, narrowed 

 more or less at both ends, usually with an obtuse apex, thinly coriaceous, glabrous ; margins 

 with small undulations, just reflexed; midrib depressed above; lateral veins delicate, nume^ 

 rous, raised on both sides, at 60 to 70 ; 2 J to 4 in. in length by 1 If in. in width ; 

 petioles f in. in length. Known only in fruit; fruiting peduncle ^ j^in. in length, 

 not thick, pubescent ; fruit solitary, near ends of branches, glabrous or nearly so, pale brown, 

 oblique, ellipsoidal, about | in. in height by f ^ in. in thickness, tipped somewhat laterally 

 with remains of style ; fruiting calyx small, horizontal, 3-fid, ^ in. in diameter, covered 

 with scattered appressed short pale hairs; lobes deltoid. 



Australia, Queensland, Eockingham Bay, Dallachy ! 



4. MABA ACUMINATA. 



M. foliis ellipticis valde acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel parum angustatis, submembra- 

 naceis, breviter petiolatis ; corottce tubo quam calyce duplo longiore ; staminibus 4 5 ; fructibus 

 globosis, tomentosis et sparse pilosis ; calyce fructifero tripartite, minima. 



Macreightia acuminata, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PL p. 424. n. 3 (1864). 



A moderate sized tree with terete erect-patent branches. Young parts pale brown sericeo- 

 pubescent, afterwards becoming dark and glabrous. Leaves elliptical, long-acuminate, rounded 

 or nearly so at base, in the dry state pale greenish glabrous and shining on upper side with 

 scarcely raised veins, pale brown sericeous or subpubescent on under-side with raised clear 

 lateral veins anastomosing near margin and sericeous prominent midrib, submembranous, 

 shortly petiolate, 2 5 in. in length by f to IJin. in width; petioles Jg i.i n . m length, 

 pubescent. Bracts imbricated, sericeous. 



<$ . Tube* of the corolla twice as long as the calyx, J in. in length ; stamens 4 5 ; 

 ovary pilose. 



P. Fruit globular, pale brown, appressedly sub-tomentose-pubescent, f fin. in diameter; 

 fruiting calyx not auricled. 



Ceylon, Thwaites ! C.P. 3718. 



5. MABA OBLONGIFOI.IA. 



M. foliis oblongis, acuminatis, subcoriaceis, basi rotundatis, subtus secus nervos cum petiolo 

 brevi sub-ferrugineo-hispidis, denique glabris; floribus masculis solitariis crebris subsessilibus, 

 calyce breviter lobato, staminibus 12 glabris; floribus femineis solitariis breviter pedunculatis, 

 calyce tripartite, hispido, non accrescente, staminodiis 0, fructibus -subglobosis tomentosis. 



Macreightia oblongifolia, Thw. Enum. Ceyl, PL p. 183. n. 1. (1860), p. 423 (1864) ; non 

 Marcreightia oblongifolia, Kurz. 



A small tree ; young parts very hispid, subferruginous ; branches terete, quickly turning 

 dark and glabrous, spreading at about 40, Leaves oblong, acuminate, subcoriaceous ; 

 upper side brown (often of a rich deep colour) shining and glabrous when dry, midrib and 

 lateral veins depressed ; under-side palish brown, subpubescent, lateral anastomosing veins 

 and especially midrib raised prominent and pubescent; 3 to 7 Jin. in length by 1 to 3 in. 

 in width; petioles -j^ |in. in length, glabrescent, at first hispid. 



