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Diospyros albens, Presl, Reliq. Haenk. u. p. 62 (1835-6). 



Macreightia albens, Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 221. n. 2 (1844); Ettingsh. Blatt-skel. Dikot. 

 p, 89. t. 38. f. 11 (1861). 



A shrub or tree with pallid or cinereous bark and dull leaves; branches terete, glabrescent; 

 young parts pubescent; leaves obovate-oblong or lanceolate, more or less narrowed at both 

 ends, crowded, softly puberulous, dull green above, paler beneath and with minute scales, 

 subcoriaceous, midrib slightly depressed beneath, veins slender ; 1 \ 3 in. long by f 1 in. 

 wide ; petiole T V~ i in- long- 



$ . Flowers arranged on short (^ ^ in. long) pubescent 3-flowered cymes, which grow 

 on the youngest shoots ; | in. long by in. wide ; calyx campanulate or ovoid, J in. long by 

 in. wide, unequally 3-fid (occasionally 4 5-fid with lanceolate lobes), pubescent on both sides; 

 lobes usually ovate ; corolla shortly 3 4-lobed, urceolate-oblong, pubescent outside, glabrous 

 inside, lobes oblique, imbricated sinistrorsely ; stamens 12 11 (6 filaments, 2 together ex Presl 

 I. c.) all or some inserted at the base of the corolla, glabrous ; ovary rudimentary, pubescent. 



Flowers in June. 



Mexico, Acapulco, Presl, Haenke! 47; Soledad, Dr Wawra! 168. 



29. MABA INCONSTANS, Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 404 (1864). 



M. foliis oblongo-obovatis vel oblongis, apice obtusis, basi angustatis, subglabris vel sub- 

 tomentosis, tenuiter reticulatis, subcoriaceis, inter dum, minute pellucido-punctatis, breviter peti- 

 olatis ; floribus masculis breviter cymosis, 3 4-mm's ; staminibus 6 1 2, scepius 9, incequalibus, 

 glabris ; floribus femineis subsolitariis, 3 (4-)mm's ; staminodiis 3 4 ; ovario hirsute, 6-locu- 

 lari ; fructibus solitariis, 6-locularibus, depresso-globosis, subglabratis ; seminibus oblongis; albu- 

 mine non ruminato. 



Macreightia inconstans, Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 221. n. 6 (1844). 



Diospyros inconstans, Jacq. Amer. p. 276, t. 174. f. 67 (1763). 



Macreightia conduplicata, Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 221. n. 5 (1844). 



Diospyros conduplicata, Kunth in Humb. et Bonpl. Nov. Gen. iii. p. 254 (1818). 



Diospyros Berterii, Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 234. n. 61 (1844). 



Diospyros obtusifolia, Bert, in Alph. DC. 1. c., non Humb. et Bonpl. 



Macreightia obovata, Mart, in Fl. Bras. VIT. Eben. p. 9. t. 2. f. 3 (1856). 



Macreightia psidioides, Alph. DC. Prodr. VIIL p. 221. n. 4 (1844). 



Diospyros psidioides, Kunth in Humb. et Bonpl. Nov. Gen. iii. p. 254 (1818). 



A moderate-sized dioecious (monoecious, according to Jacquin) tree or shrub, with young 

 parts and inflorescence fulvo- or ferruginous-pubescent, more or less glabrescent. Leaves alter- 

 nate, oblong-obovate or oblong, subglabrous or subtomentose-pubescent, reticulated, subcoria- 

 ceous, somewhat narrowed at base, and more or less pointed or obtuse at apex; sometimes 

 minutely pellucid-punctate; margins just recurved, 1| Gin. long, f 2| in. wide; midrib 

 depressed above ; petioles J in. long ; cymes short, drooping, 3-flowered or 3-several-flowered 

 in male plants, ^ \ J in. long ; bracts small, caducous, acute, ovate or lanceolate or obovate- 

 oblong. 



$ . Flowers -$5 f in. long, 3 4- (usually 3-) -merous, campanulate-oblong ; calyx -fa ^ in. 

 long, campanulate, pubescent; lobes ovate, somewhat spreading, about equalling the tube or 



