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c5 . Flowers subsessile solitary crowded on short axillary densely pubescent branches ; 

 buds oblong, subferruginous, sericeous-pubescent, about ^ in. in length. Calyx |in. long, 3-lobed 

 at apex. Stamens 12, glabrous, in several rows, unequal, partly hypogynous and partly at 

 base of interior of tube of corolla. Ovary minute, hairy. 



?. Flowers solitary, ferruginous, shortly pedunculate, hispid; bracts imbricated, large, 

 hispid; peduncle -j^in. in length, hispid. Flowers f^in. in length (not expanded in specimens), 

 ovoid-oblong. Calyx fin. in length, with 3 deep diverging ovate acute lobes. Corolla 3-fid, 

 glabrous inside. Stamens 0. Ovary covered with light ferruginous vertical hairs, 3-celled 

 or, according to Dr Thwaites, 6-celled. Style divided at apex into 3 glabrous stigmas. 



Fruit subglobose, ferruginous-tomentose, 1 in. in diameter, fruiting calyx not accrescent 

 nor auricled ; 2- or 3-seeded ; seeds black, glabrous, about | in. in length by J in. in thick- 

 ness, bounded by 2 plane contiguous sides and a curved surface, a horizontal section being 

 a sector of a circle ; a reddish raised line runs down middle part of outer surface of 

 the seed; albumen not ruminated; radicle cylindrical, half as long again as the oblong 

 cotyledons. 



Ceylon, Thwaites! C.P. 3396. 



6. MABA OVALIFOLIA. 



M, foliis oblongo-ovatis, parum acuminatis, obtusiusculis, basi sizpius rotundatis, subcoriaceis, 

 glabrescentibus, breviter petiolatis ; floribus masculis solitariis, crebris, calyce inceqwaliter tri- 

 dentato, (corolld 4-fidd), staminibus 13 16, glabris, ovarii rudimento hirsute. 



Macreightia ovalifolia, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. pi. p. 424. n. 2 (1864). 



Tree of moderate size ; young parts pubescent, soon glabrescent and cinereous ; branches 

 terete, erect-patent. Leaves oblong-ovate, shortly acuminate, subcoriaceous, usually rounded at 

 base, brown on both sides when dry, darker above, glabrescent, flat, margins just recurved, patent, 

 shortly petiolate, midrib and lateral anastomosing veins raised beneath depressed above, 

 2 to 3Jin. in length by 1 to If in. in width; petioles fin. in length, stout. Bracts 

 imbricated, large, caducous. 



<J. Flowers solitary, crowded on young short branchlets, ferruginous sericeous, ^in. in 

 length before expansion, oblong. Calyx Jin. in length, tubular, with 3 short acute teeth 

 chiefly on one side, a deeper division being opposite. Corolla often bent sideways (closed 

 in specimens), somewhat constricted about the middle, 4-fid, dark and glabrous inside. 

 Stamens 13 16 (14 in one case examined), unequal, glabrous ; ovary rudimentary, repre- 

 sented by a bunch of hairs. 



Ceylon, Thwaites! C.P. 3717. 



7. MABA FOLIOSA, Rich, ex Asa Gray in Proceedings of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences, Vol. V. p. 326 (1862). 



M. foliis ovalibus vel ovatis, lasi cordatis, coriaceis, confertis, subsessilibus ; floribus masculis 

 3 5-nis, brevissime cymosis, calyce campanulato-oblongo, breviter trifido, corolld breviter trifldd, 

 staminibus 3, glabris ; floribiw femineis subsessilibus, cymis 1 3-floris, fructibus ferrugineo- 

 tomentosis. 



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