122 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 



Alph. DC. Prod. Yin. p. 242. n. 11 (1844) ; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. p. 290. n. 6 (1869). 



Known only in fruit ; shrub 4 5 feet high, erect, branched ; shoots terete, bark dark 

 cinereous ; glabrous except the inside of the spreading or recurved calyx. Leaves oval, 

 suddenly narrowed or rounded at base, emarginate or rounded at base, coriaceous, highly reti- 

 culated, 2 4 in. long (including dark petiole \ \ in. long) by \\ 2 in. wide ; midrib 

 depressed above. Fruit subsessile, solitary, depresso-globose, yellow, about \ in. thick^ glabrate 

 and shining, 3-celled, 3-seeded ; fruiting calyx \ in. across, spreading or recurved, densely 

 covered on reflexed surface with short furlike tomentum, glabrous outside. 



Differs from Mdba reticulata by wider leaves and more spreading or reflexed not 

 cupuli-form fruiting calyx. 



Australia, North Coast Island, Feb. 18, 21, 1803, E. Brown! 



19. MABA HILLEBRANDII, Seem. Fl. Vit. p. 151 (1866). 



M. foliis dblongis vel ovato-oblongis, apice obtusis, basi rotundatis vel cordatis, glabris, 

 tenuiter coriaceis, supra crebre reticulatis, breviter petiolatis ; floribus solitariis sessilibus basi 

 bracteatis, masculis 3-meris, femineis 3 4-mem ; staminibus 9, glabris; fructibus oblongis 

 subglabratis, calyce fructifero glabro, lobis deltoideis. 



Glabrous except the inflorescence ; branches dark cinereous. Leaves oblong or ovate- 

 oblong, rounded or cordate at the base, usually obtuse at the apex, thinly coriaceous, 

 2 6 in. long by 1 3 in. wide ; veins except midrib in relief on both sides, remarkably 

 prominent on the upper side, reticulated ; petioles T \y $, in. long. Flowers solitary sessile 

 with several imbricated ciliate bracts at base. 



,J . Flowers pubescent, trimerous ; stamens 9, 6 in 3 pairs alternating with the corol- 

 la-lobes and 3 distinct opposite the corolla-lobes, all glabrous ; ovary rudimentary, hairy. 



$ . Fruit oblong, f in. long by J f in. thick, subglabrate, somewhat oblique ; fruiting 

 calyx \ in. long by \ in. wide at apex, 3 4-fid, glabrous ; lobes deltoid acute, some- 

 what spreading. 



Sandwich Islands, Mountains, Oahu, Dr Hillebrand!, JRemy ! 472. 



20. MABA ELLIPTICA, J. R et G. Forst. Char. Gen. PI. p. 122. t. 61 (1776). 



M. ^foliis ellipticis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, apice obtusis, basi cuneatis, subcoriaceis, glabres- 

 centibus, breviter petiolatis; cymis axillaribus, 3 8-floris, pubescentibus ; floribus trimeris> 

 campanulato-tubulosis ; staminibus 3 vel 6 ; ovario 3-loculari, pubescente; fructibus ellipsoideis, 

 pedunculatis, pubescentibus. 



J. R. et G. Forst. Beschreib. Gatt. Pflanz. edit. Kerner, p. 127. t. xv. f. 61 (1779) ; Poiret 

 iu Lam. Encycl. Meth. Suppl. in. p. 566. t. 803 (1813) ; Labill. Sert. Austro-Caled. p. 32. t. 35 

 (1824) ; Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 240. n. 1 (1844) ; Ettingsh. Blatt-skel. Dikot. p. 90. t. 40. 

 f. 2 (1861) ; non Seem. Fl. Vit. p. 152 (1866). 



Ebenus vulgaris, Humph. Amb. Vol. III. p. 1. t. 1 (1750). 



lEbenoxylum verum, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 613 (1790). 



