MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 133 



Glabrous shrub; branches terete, at about 60, argenteous-cinereous, except when very 

 young and then they become blackish in the dried state. Leaves alternate, elliptical, dark 

 without conspicuous lateral veins, submembranous, obtuse or rounded at apex, usually sub- 

 cordate at base, 1 to 2 in. in length by -J to 1 in. in width ; petioles scarcely i in. in length 



9 . Flowers subsessile, about 3 together, dark when dry ; calyx ^ in. in height with 

 3 ovate diverging lobes extending down the calyx; corolla fallen from specimens- ovary 

 glabrous, ovoid-conical, 6-celled, cells 1-ovuled; style 3-lobed at apex, glabrous, higher than 

 the calyx. 



East Tropical Africa, Quiloa, Dr Kirk! Fl. Zangueb. n. 110, 10 January, 1867. 



39. MABA MICRANTHA. 



M. foliis ellipticis vel oblongis, basi attenuatis, apice obtuse acuminatis, glabris, coriaceis, 

 petiolatis ; floribus femineis solitariis, sessilibus, axillaribus ; calyce tubuloso, integro, truncate, 

 in squamis paucis bifariis imbricatis insidente ; corolla tubulosd, trifidd; quam calyce triplo lon- 

 giore, lobis ovatis obtusis patentibus ; staminodiis 6, basi corollas inseriis ; ovdrio hemisphcerico, 

 glabro, 6-loculari ; loculis uni-ovulatis ; stylis 3, erectis. 



Holochilus micranthus, Dalz. in Kew Jour. Bot. IV. p. 291 (1852), Dalz. et Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. p. 142 (1861). 



A middle-sized tree. Leaves elliptical or oblong, attenuate at base, obtusely acuminate 

 at apex, coriaceous, glabrous, 4 5 in. long by 2 in. wide; petioles J in. long. Flowers dioe- 

 cious ; $ flowers unknown. 



9 . Flowers \ in. long, white, solitary, sessile, axillary ; calyx tubular, entire, truncate, 

 placed among a few bifarious scales ; corolla tubular, 3 times the length of the calyx, 3-lobed 

 nearly to the middle ; lobes ovate, obtuse, spreading. Staminodes 6, inserted at the base of 

 the corolla-tube, distinct, filaments double of the length of the barren anthers ; styles 3, 

 erect, rather thick, obtuse at the apex ; ovary hemispherical, glabrous, 6-celled ; ovules solitary. 

 Fruit cylindric-oblong, supported at the base by the accrescent truncate calyx, dry, hard, 

 1 in. long, 6-celled; seeds solitary. 



In the Syhadra hills, on the Southern Ghauts, Bombay. Flowers in February and 

 March, Dalzell. 



40. MABA LAMPONGA, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. n. 1179. p. 584 (1860). 



M. foliis dbovato-oblongis vel ellipticis, apice rotundatis retusis, basi angustatis, glabres- 

 centibus, coriaceis, breviter petiolatis, venis inconspicuis ; floribus masculis (monstrosis in spe- 

 ciminibus ?) axillaribus supra-axillaribus et lateralibus, paniculatis fasciculatis umbellatis vel 

 interdum solitariis ; floribus femineis solitariis, subsessilibus vel breviter pedunculatis, axilla- 

 ribus, calyce tridentato, corolla- subcampanulatd, lobis elliptico-oblongis, acuminatis, ovario 

 ovoideo, glabro, stylo brevissimo, stigmatibus 3, patentibus. 



Buds velutinous. Leaves minutely and appressedly downy when young, quickly glabres- 

 cent, obovate-oblong or elliptical, acute or sub-cuneate at the base, in most cases widely 

 rounded and retuse at the apex,' coriaceous, rather shining, griseo-pallid when dry, nearly 



