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exceeding it ; corolla glabrous (villous, according to Jacquin) within, pubescent outside, conical 

 at apex in bud ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, about equalling the tube ; stamens 6 12, usually 9 

 (3 10, according to Jacquin), unequal, either distinct or in pairs or 3 together, inserted at 

 base of corolla or partly hypogynous, glabrous ; ovary abortive ; receptacle hairy. 



9 . Cymes soon becoming 1-flowered by lapse of the lateral flowers, fa | in. long. 

 Calyx openly campanulate, 3- (4-) fid, with rounded lobes, about in. across, puberulous out- 

 side, tomentose inside ; corolla widened below, the lobes extending only way down, densely 

 ferruginous-pubescent outside; staminodes glabrous, (in one flower) 4, 2 being distinct and 2 

 combined by their filaments ; in another flower 3, alternating with the corolla-lobes ; ovary 

 6-celled, 6-ovuled, ^ in. high, covered outside with short appressed drab hairs ; style simple, 

 columnar, ^ in. high, trifid at apex, hairy at base ; stigmas punctiform ; fruit solitary, 6-celled, 

 yellowish, with black bitter pulp, depresso-globose, subsessile or shortly stalked, ^ | in. thick, 

 subglabrate and shining ; fruiting calyx about f in. in diameter, reflexed or nearly flat, with 

 3 (4) rounded or bifid lobes, tube thickened within; seeds oblong; albumen not ruminated. 



The following varieties may be noticed : 

 a. obovata. A tree or shrub with obovate-oblong leaves. 



# granatensis. A shrub with oblong leaves. Occasionally the leaves are couduplicate 

 (in the dry state). 



Flowers in February, July, and September. 



S.America, St Vincent, Guilding ! ; Martinique, PUe! 762; New Granada, Carthagena, 

 Jacquin, Triana! 2613; Sabanilla, Karsten! ; S^? Martha, Purdie! Goudot! No. 1; Guayaquil, 

 Bonpland! 3846; Brazil, Pohl! 1980, Sello! 1211, 1689, 2301; Eio Janeiro, Gaudichaud ! ; 

 Minas Geraes, Weddell! ; Dr Eegnell! iii. 1516. 



30. MABA ACAPULCENSIS. 



M. foliis dbovato-lanceolatis, apice acutis, basi cuneatis, utrinque hirtellis, subtus subcanes- 

 centibus, reticulatis, submembranaceis, petiolatis ; fructibus solitariis, subsessilibus, subglobosis, 

 uncialibus ; calyce fructifero patente, profunde 3-fido ; albumine non ruminate. 



Macreightia acapulcencis, Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 221. n. 3 (1844), excl. Syn. Diospyros 

 salicifolia. 



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



Terminal buds oblong, sericeous-tomentose ; the axillary ones smaller, pubescent ; shoots 

 glabrous, dark-cinereous, smooth ; leaves obovate-lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the base, hir- 

 tellous on both sides, especially beneath where they are subcanescent, reticulato-venose, mem- 

 branous, 2| in. long or more, by about f in. wide, petiolate ; fruit solitary, subsessile, sub- 

 globose, 1 in. in diameter; fruiting calyx flat, nearly 1 in. across, deeply 3-fid; lobes widely 

 ovate, felted inside, puberulous outside ; albumen not ruminated ; cotyledons oblong, rather 

 obtuse, double the length of the radicle. 



Mexico, Acapulco, Bqnpland ! 



