126 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^!. 



Macreightia caribcea, Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 221. n. 1 (1844), non Griseb. Veg. Karab. 

 Ins. Guadal. p. 91. n. 846 (1857, = Casasia calophylla Rich.). 



Tree, glaucescent, glabrous except very young parts and flowers, which are pale fulvous 

 and softly pubescent ; branches making 60 with stem. Leaves obovate, rounded or emarginate 

 at apex, somewhat narrowed at base, coriaceous, midrib depressed above, glabrous, plane but 

 margins reflexed ; net- veins very closely and clearly reticulated, raised on both sides ; 1J 3 in. 

 in length by | 1$ in. in width, rather paler beneath ; petioles -fo in. in length. 



$ . Cymes very short, usually 3-flowered, pubescent, pale fulvous; flowers narrowly oval; 

 calyx tubular, with 3 shortly deltoid lobes at apex; corolla 3-fid; glabrous and dark inside; 

 stamens 8, unequal; ovary rudimentary, hairy. 



2 . Flowers solitary, sessile or on peduncles ^ f in. in length, pubescent, | J in. in height ; 

 bracts small, pubescent ; calyx coriaceous, thick, with wide undulating diverging and auricled 

 lobes; openly campanulate, deeply 3-fid, fin. in width, hairy on both sides; corolla 3-fid, 

 | in. long, lobes acute, glabrous inside, hairy outside ; staminodes 3 6, equal, inserted near 

 base of corolla ; ovary densely hairy, 6 ?-celled, 6-ovuled. According to Grisebach (Fl. Br. W. 

 Ind. p. 404) the ovary is 3-celled, with 3 other incomplete dissepiments separating the gemi- 

 nate ovules. Fruit squarely subglobose, glabrous and shining, orange-coloured, about 1 in. in 

 diameter ; fruiting calyx nearly as wide, but not accrescent, horizontal ; lobes with replicative 

 sinuses ; albumen deeply ruminated. 



Cuba, C. Wright/ 1331, near village called Monte Verde, E. Cuba; Rugel, 662; Haiti, 

 C. Ehrenberg ! ; Nectoux f ; Antilles ! ; " America meridionalis," Richard I in Hb. Vahl. 



27. MABA INTRICATA. 



M. glaucescens, intricato-ramosa, foliis obovatis, apice rotundatis, basi cuneatis, coriaceis, 

 brevissime petiolatis ; fructibus globosis, glabratis, uncialibus, breve pedunculatis, Q-spermis, 

 albumine non ruminato, calyce fructifero patente, trilobo. 



Macreightia intricata, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. V. p. 163 (Jan. 1862). 



Pale glaucescent (shrub?), with intricate branches spreading at 60 80; young parts 

 weakly and appressedly pubescent. Leaves obovate, cuneate at base, rounded at apex, few- 

 veined, appressedly and inconspicuously pubescent on midrib and beneath, about 1 in. long 

 by | in. wide ; coriaceous ; petioles very short. Fruiting peduncles arching-reflexed, \ ^ in. 

 long, tough, glabrous, solitary ; fruiting calyx flat, J in. in diameter, covered with very short 

 inconspicuous and weak pale hairs, with 3 rounded lobes, | in. long, reflexed at tip ; fruit 

 of bright orange colour, glabrate, globular, about 1 in. in diameter, 6-seeded ; albumen not 

 ruminated. 



Lower California, Cape St Lucas, &c., Xantus! 68, Aug. 1859 Jan. 1860. 



28. MABA ALBENS. 



M. foliis obovato-oblongis, utrinque angustatis, confertis, molliter puberulis, subtus albenti- 

 l>us, subcoriaceis, breviter petiolatis ; floribus masculis 3-ra's, brevissime cymosis, 3 4 5-meris; 

 staminibus 12 11, glabris ; ovarii rudimento pubescente. 



