136 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^. 



Young parts and inflorescence puberulous ; branches somewhat cinereous. Leaves narrowly 

 elliptical, narrowed at both ends, glabrous, alternate, coriaceous, 3 5 in. long by 4 1^ in. 

 wide ; petioles \ J in. long ; margins recurved ; midrib slightly dilatato-depressed above ; 

 veins not conspicuous above, of same colour as lamina beneath. 



? . Cymes axillary, many-flowered, \ \ in. long, spreading ; pedicels -^ in. long, 

 puberulous ; fruiting calyx 3-fid, nearly | in. across, glabrous or very nearly so, tube hemi- 

 spherical ; lobes widely ovate, convex from above, spreading ; fruit about in. long, sub- 

 globose, glabrous, pale and shining; seeds with ruminated albumen. 



New Caledonia, Deplanchef 311. 



44. MABA CONFERTIFLORA, sp. nov. 



M. foliis ovali-oblongis, apice obtuse vel emarginate acuminatis, gldbris, coriaceis ; floribus 

 masculis aggregates, brevissime cymosis, subsessilibus, trimeris, corolld urceolato-tubulosd ; sta- 

 minibus 12, geminatis, glabris; floribus femineis axillaribus, subsessilibus, aggregates, trimeris; 

 staminodiis 2 3, stylo apice 3-lobo, ovario glabro, 6 ?-loculari. 



A small tree ; shoots subglabrous with scattered short appressed hairs, cinereous. Leaves 

 crowded, oval-oblong, obtusely or emarginately acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous except the 

 midrib beneath, shining, with depressed veins on the upper surface, somewhat paler beneath ; 

 lateral veins inconspicuous and weak; leaves 1J 3J in. long (including subglabrescent petiole 

 in. long) by $ 1| in. wide. Bracts shortly ovate. 



(5 . Flowers many, crowded, on short slightly hairy cymes, subsessile, rufous ; calyx 

 small, trifid, with scattered short hairs, spreading; corolla urceolate-tubular, shortly trifid, 

 with 3 hairy lines down the middle lines of the lobes; stamens 12, united by their fila- 

 ments in 6 pairs, the inner ones being the shorter, glabrous; anthers dehiscing widely from 

 apex downwards ; ovary rudimentary, glabrous. 



<J>. Flowers subsessile, crowded in axils of leaves, several abortive ; calyx sub-glabrescent, 

 coriaceous, spreading, 3-lobed ; corolla 3-fid ; staminodes 2 3 ; style 3-lobed at apex ; ovary 

 glabrous, 6 ?-celled, with a few hairs at base. 



Labuan, Lobb!, Motley! 205. 



45. MABA PTJNCTATA, sp. nov. 



M*. foliis oblongis, apice breviter acuminatis vel apiculatis, basi subcordatis, coriaceis vel 

 submembranaceis, minute pellucido-punctatis, supra glabris nitidis, subtus secus nervos puberulis, 

 breviter petiolatis ; floribus masculis dense cymosis, pubescentibus, trimeris, staminibus 9, glabris; 

 floribus femineis 3 <*3-nis, breviter cymosis, supra-axillaribus, trimeris; fructibus sub-globosis, 

 glabris, G-locularibus. 



Diospyros punctata, Korthals, MSS. in Hb. Lugd. Batav. Ebenac. n. 15. 



A small tree ; young parts, inflorescence, &c. softly ferruginous-pubescent ; shoots terete, 

 pubescent. Leaves oblong, alternate, coriaceous or submembranous, minutely pellucid-punc- 

 tate, subcordate at base, suddenly and sharply acuminate apiculate or mucronate at apex, 

 glabrous and shining above with depressed midrib and lateral veins; midrib and about 9 



