134 MB HIEEN, ON EBENACE^. 



veinless, but with slender net-veins when old, 3^ 2 in. long ; petioles short, sub-trigonous. 

 Flowers dioecious ? 



$. Flowers (all monstrous?) axillary supra-axillary and lateral, sometimes in short 

 panicles, -at other times fascicled or umbelled, occasionally solitary, pedicelled ; corolla repre- 

 sented by 3 ovate scales united at the base, alternating with the calyx-teeth, pubescent; 

 moreover there are placed inside numerous narrower scales (monstrous stamens?) in several 

 series, free or united in pairs, more or less hairy at the back, plainly imbricated. 



9 . Flowers solitary, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, axillary ; calyx coriaceous, cupu- 

 liform-globose, tridentate ; teeth triangular acute, appressedly downy outside; tube of the 

 corolla short, subcampanulate, glabrous as high as the calyx ; lobes elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 densely hirsute along the middle of the back. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style very short, 

 thick, stigmas 3, spreading, canaliculate in front. 



South Sumatra in prov. Lampong ; on sea coast. Teysmann. 



41. MABA MERGUENSIS, sp. nov. 



M. foliis ovalibus oblongis vel ovato-oblongis, apice acuminatis, basi subrotundis vel parwn 

 angustatis, gldbris, submembranaceis vel tenuiter coriaceis, petiolatis ; floribus masculis 8-nis, 

 paniculatis, parvis, axillaribus, 3 4-men's, pedicettis brevissimis ; calyce aperte campanulato, 

 minute puberulo, ciliato ; corolld subglabrd ; staminibus 14 16, glabris ; ovarii rudimento 

 subtus glabro ; floribus femineis dense cymosis, 3 9-nis, plerumque trimeris ; staminodiis 3 

 vel 6, glabris, basi corolla insertis; ovario glabro, 6-loculari, loculis uni-ovulatis ; frwtibus 

 globosis, glabris; seminibus oblongis, albumine non ruminato. 



Cfr. Diospyros frutescens, var., Blume, Bijdr. fl. ned. Jnd. p. 668 (1825) ; /3. Tallak, 

 Alph. DC. Prodr. vni. p. 230. n. 38 (1844). 



A small tree, glabrous, with brown or dark-ashy branches, spreading at about 50. Leaves 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, glabrous or sometimes with puberulous midrib beneath, sub-mem- 

 branous, dark above, paler and brownish beneath, rounded or slightly narrowed at base, 

 acuminate at apex, not black-punctate, nearly flat, veins delicately raised on both sides, or 

 sometimes slightly depressed on the upper surface, 2 6f in. in length by 1 3 in. in width ; 

 petioles \ | in. in length. 



<?. Cymes panicled, bearing numerous flowers, pubescent with short lightish brown hairs, 

 \ to 1 in. in length (excluding the flowers) ; pedicels very short ; flowers small ; calyx -fa in. 

 in height, openly campanulate, with slight short pubescence outside, and 3 or 4 widely del- 

 toid lobes about half the depth of the calyx, ciliate ; corolla nearly glabrous, about ^ in. 

 long, 3 4-lobed, lobes short; stamens 14 16, mostly or all in pairs, inserted at base of 

 interior of corolla or hypogynous, glabrous, the interior ones the smaller, anthers about 

 equalling the longer filaments ; ovary rudimentary. 



9 . Cymes dense, short, many-flowered, with thick pedicels, pubescent in flower, gla- 

 brescent in fruit ; bracteoles ovate, pubescent, caducous, ^ in. in length ; flower usually 

 trimerous, occasionally tetramerous, \ in. in length ; calyx pubescent in. in length, gla- 

 brescent, spreading, lobes -fa in. long, diverging, ovate, sides reflexed ; corolla pubescent, 

 lobes T V in. in length, oval, somewhat spreading ; staminodes 3 or 6, inserted at base of the 



