MR HIERN, ON EBENACE.E. 121 



the length of fruit, cupshaped, at first with a short cylindrical base, glabrous ; radicle longer 

 than the cotyledons. 



Australia, from Arnhem Land to the islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria and to the 

 tropic in East Australia. Rockhampton, Dattachy and O'Shanesy! ; Point Pear, Mueller!; 

 Dawson River, Mueller!; Burnett River, Mueller!; Gilbert River, Mueller!; Cliffs on the 

 entrance of the Victoria River, Mueller !; Sweers Island, Henne !; Broad Sound near upper 

 head, in thickets not far from the shore, R. Brown! 



17. MABA KETIGTJLATA, R. Br. Prodr. p. 528. n. 6 (1810). 



M. foliis obovatis vel ovalibus, apice emarginatis vel rotundatis, supra valde reticulatis, 

 coriaeeis, glabris, breviter petiolatis; floribus masculis 3 4-men's, 3 o-nis, brevissime cymo- 

 sis, campanulatis, calyce subglabro, staminibus 7 14, glabris; floribus femineis solitariis, 

 subsessilibus, corolla 3 4>-fidd, staminodiis 0, ovario sericeo, 3-loculari; fructibus glabratis, 

 subglobosis, calyce fructifero leviter aucto, intus breviter tomentoso, extus glabro. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 241. n. 6 (1844) ; Benth. Flora Austr. IV. p. 291. n. 7 (1869). 

 M. interstans, F. Muell. Fragm. bot. V. p. 163 (1866). 



A shrub of 8 ft. or a tree from. 20 to 30 feet in height, erect, glabrous or very quickly gla- 

 brescent, much branched ; branches terete, spreading at about 45 50, bark cinereous, 

 thinly rimose. Leaves oval or obovate, emarginate or rounded at apex, suddenly narrowed 

 or rounded at base, margins often recurved, highly reticulated above, midrib depressed 

 above, coriaceous, 1 J to 4 in. in length by J to 2| in. in width ; petioles ^5 | in. in length. 



<J . Cymes 3 5-flowered, hairy, -fa -J- in. in length, crowded on young branches ; pedicels 

 very short, with oval ciliate caducous bract at base ; flower -J- in. in length, usually tri- 

 merous, occasionally tetramerous ; calyx campanulate, dark, T \j in. in height, with 3 or rarely 

 4 roundly deltoid lobes reaching about halfway down calyx, subglabrous ; corolla 3 4-fid, 

 argenteo-sericeous outside, narrowly urceolate; stamens 7 14, hypogynous, equal, glabrous, 

 when numerous many in pairs, about J in. in length ; anthers about -^ in. in length, nar- 

 row ; ovary rudimentary, hairy. 



2 . Flowers solitary, subsessile, thick, about in. in length ; calyx 3-fid, nearly hemi- 

 spherical, nearly glabrous outside ; corolla urceolate, 3- or unequally 4-fid, silky; staminodes 

 ; style scarcely any ; stigma 3-lobed ; ovary globular-pointed, silky, pale, 3-celled, cells 

 2-ovuled ; fruit globular or depresso-globular, J in. thick, glabrate and shining ; fruiting calyx 

 3-celled, 3-seeded, somewhat accrescent, finally recurved or spreading, covered inside with 

 dense furlike hair, glabrate outside, ^ in. across. 



Australia, Cape York, Voyage of Rattlesnake, October 1848, John Macgillivray ! 439; 

 Mr Daniel! March 1868; Rockingham Bay, Ferd. Mueller! Dallachy ; Prince of Wales and 

 Cumberland Islands, R. Brown! Nov. 2, 1802, in male flower. 



18. MABA COMPACTA, R. Br. Prodr. p. 528. n. 7 (1810). 



M. foliis ovalibus, apice emarginatis vel rotundatis, coriaeeis, glabris, reticulatis, breviter 

 petiolatis; fructibus solitariis, subsessilibus, subglobosis, glabratis, nitentibus, 3-locularibus, 

 3-spermis ; calyce fructifero patente vel reflexo, intus tomentoso, extus glabro. 



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