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or 10 lateral veins on each side, puberulous, distinct and in relief beneath; lower surface 

 slightly and appressedly puberulous, with evanescent reddish pulverulence ; 3J 10J in. long 

 by 1J 3 1 in. wide; petioles Jin. long, thick, terete, pubescent; usually some depressed 

 glands are visible on the lower surface of the leaves especially at the base. 



<$ . Inflorescence axillary, dense, many-flowered, short, -j^ | in. long (exclusive of the 

 flowers) ; bracts acute, numerous, hairy ; pedicels varying in length up to J in. ; flowers in. 

 long, white ; calyx J in. long, campanulate, shortly 3-fid, shortly pubescent outside, glabrous 

 inside, lobes deltoid ; corolla tubular, hypocrateriform, -fa in. wide, shortly 3-lobed, sericeous 

 outside, glabrous inside ; lobes acute, spreading, ^ m . long ; stamens glabrous, 9, hypogynous, 

 equal, 6 united by their filaments in 3 pairs of which the inner ones are the shorter, and 

 3 distinct ; anthers longer than the filaments, linear, acute ; ovary ; receptacle glabrous. 



2 . Inflorescence supra-axillary ; cymes 3 many-flowered, | \ in. long (exclusive of the 

 flowers) ; bracts small acute caducous ; fruiting pedicels thickened upwards, ^ in. long ; 

 pericarp rather thick ; fruit ovoid f in. long by f in. thick, terminated by style ^ in. long 

 3-lobed at apex, glabrous (in diy state), subverrucose, shining, 6-celled, 6-seeded ; fruiting 

 calyx appressed to young fruit and sericeous, quite patent and nearly glabrate in older 

 fruit, not accrescent, J in. across, 3-fid with ovate or deltoid lobes. 



Borneo, Foot of Gunong Pautie on Serpentine Rocks. Mr Motley I n. 766 ; Korthals f, 

 Beccari! n. 1423. 



PLATE IV. A fruiting branch, natural size. a. A piece of a male branch in flower, 

 natural size. b. A piece of a female branch, natural size. c. A fruit, natural size. 



46. MABA TEIJSMANNI. 



M. arborea, hermaphrodita (?), foliis subdistichis, ovalibus vel oblongis, apice breviter acu- 

 minatis, basi angustatis vel obtusis, glabris, breviter petiolatis ; floribus cymosis, 5 9-nis, 

 3 4<-meris, urceolatis, staminibus 3 4, basi corollce insertis, ovario ovoideo glabro Q-loculari ; 

 fructibus coriaceis, calyce aucto reflexo. 



Rhipidostigma Teijsmanni, Hassk. Retz. I. p. 106 (1855). 



A tree with erect-patent cinereous asperulous branches and terete glabrous or minutely 

 gland ular-ciliate shoots whose bark is often somewhat chartaceous ; hermaphrodite (?). Leaves 

 subdistichous, oval or oblong, cuspidate or shortly acuminate at apex, narrowed or obtuse at 

 base, 2 4 in. long by 1 2 in. wide, glabrous ; midrib and veins slenderly depressed on 

 the upper surface ; petioles \ J in. long. Cymes axillary, \ J in. long, 5 9-flowered, puber- 

 ulous ; calyx 3 4- lobed, glabrous, lobes ^ \ in. long, ovate, with reflexed margins, spreading ; 

 corolla urceolate, shortly lobed, | in. high, \ in. wide, slightly hairy outside ; stamens 

 3 4 ) inserted at base of the corolla; ovary ovoid, 6-celled, glabrous, surrounded at base by 

 a ring of hairs. Fruit smooth, f in. long by \ in. thick, pericarp coriaceous, flesh slightly 

 glutinous ; seeds | in. long or more, \ in. thick, albumen cartilaginous. 



Java, Teijsmann!, flowers in April; Borneo, 0. Beccari! n. 1822. 



47. MABA HERMAPHRODITICA, ZolL Syst. Verz. Ind. Archip. p. 135 (1854). 

 M. arborea, hermaphrodita (?), foliis alternis, sparsis, oblongo-lanceolatis, utrinque attenua- 

 tis, subcoriaceis, glabris, breviter petiolatis; floribus breviter cymosis, 3 6-nis, 3 4>-meris, 

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