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Fruit ellipsoidal or subglobose, \ 1 in. high, more or less sericeous, 3-celled, 1 3 4-seeded ; 

 fruiting calyx accrescent, cupuliform, trifid, reaching half way up fruit or higher, pubescent. 

 Seeds oblong; albumen cartilaginous, not ruminated; embryo nearly straight. 



Australia, Queensland, Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ! ; 



New Caledonia, Deplanche! 312, 446; Labillardiere ! ; Puncher!; CaldwelU; Vieillard! 

 891, 892, 894, 895, 896, 2872 (?), 2876, 2880. 



9. MABA LAURINA, R Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 527. n. 1 (1810). 



M. foliis elliptids ml oblongis, apice rotundatis, glabris, nitentibus, tenuiter coriaceis, 

 petiolatis; floribus trimeris, subsessilibus, calyce late campanulato, crasso, corolla, tubulosd, 

 staminibus 9, glabris ; in floribus femineis staminodiis 0, ovario 3-loculari, subglabro, dense 

 sericeo. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 241. n. 3 (1844), Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. p. 289 n. 1 (1869). 



A small tree with smooth dark bark and quite glabrous shoots ; buds and inflorescence 

 rufous-hairy. Leaves elliptical or oblong, rounded at apex, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, shining 

 especially above, 3 Sin. long by 1| 2|in. wide, margins incrassato-recurved, veins slender, 

 raised on both sides; petioles Jin. long. 



(?. Flowers few together subsessile (ex Benth. I. c.) solitary or sometimes 2 together 

 very shortly peduncled (ex R. Br. MSS.), trimerous; calyx Jin. long, globose-campanulate, 

 coriaceous, rather crass, with numerous soft subappressed cinereous-ferruginous hairs outside, 

 glabrous inside ; corolla yellowish white, tube cylindrical, twice the length of the calyx, 

 hairy outside above the calyx, lobes rounded, one third the length of the corolla ; stamens 9, 

 glabrous, hypogynous, alternately in pairs and single, equal, pollen white ; ovary subglobose, 

 hairy, rudimentary (?) ; style and stigma wanting. 



9 . Flowers solitary, subsessile, trimerous, rufous-tomentose, scarcely | in. long by J in. 

 thick; calyx Jin. long, semi-ellipsoidal, crass, appressedly hairy inside, shortly 3-fid, lobes 

 obtuse ; corolla urceolate-oblong, glabrous inside, lobes short spreading obtuse ; staminodes ; 

 style 3-lobed at apex, stigma dilated; ovary subglobose, densely sericeous, rufous, 3-celled, 

 cells 2-ovuled. 



Cumberland Islands, Australia, R. Brown!, Oct. 17, 1802. 



10. MABA NIGRESCENS, Dalz. in Dalz. et Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 142 (1861). 



M. foliis lanceolato-oblongis, sub-coriaceis, undulatis, ciliatis, breviter petiolatis, nereis in- 

 conspicuis ; floribus 1 5-nis, 3 4-mm's, ferrugineo-pubescentibus, subsessilibus, staminibus 9 

 (vel in fl. 4-mm's, 4 6) glabris; in floribus femineis staminodiis 0, ovario pubescente, 3- 

 loculari, fructibus ellipsoideis, sericeis, calyce cupuliformi. 



A tree from 15 to 35 feet high with dense ferruginous pubescence on the shoots 

 petioles and flowers; older branches dark-cinerous ; branches at about 50, rigid. Leaves 

 lanceolate-oblong, narrowed at least at apex, sometimes nearly rounded at base, coriaceous, 

 1 3 Jin. long (including petiole -fo fin. long) by J l^in. wide, midrib depressed above, 

 hairy beneath, margins ciliate, wavy. Flowers subsessile. 



f. Flowers 1 5 together in very short cymes, Jin. long, trimerous or tetramerous; 



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