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long by in. wide, openly campanulate, ferruginously and shortly pubescent outside, glabrous 

 inside, 3- fid but apparently subtruncate by the close contorted imbrication of the rounded 

 lobes. Corolla somewhat salver-shaped, with inflated tube, glabrous, deeply 4 3-fid, with 

 spreading oblong obtuse lobes, much imbricated in bud. Staminodes 8 (?), glabrous, small 

 (in the bud), equal, inserted at base of corolla, in one row. Ovary glabrous, spindleshaped, 

 about T 3j in. long by scarcely -^ in. thick (in the bud) ; style very short ; stigma 3-lobed ; 

 ovary 3-celled with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell at lower end of the ovary. Fruit 

 1 -seeded, 1J 2 in. in length by about 1 in. thick, oblong, narrowed at base; testa crusta- 

 ceous, intruded deeply in about 15 planes into the albumen which is therefore ruminated; 

 pericarp about ^ in. thick, dark and somewhat rugose outside. Fruiting calyx not accres- 

 cent ; tube stuffed ; lobes patent. 



Malacca, Maingay ! 976, Oct. 25, 1867; Borneo, 0. Beccari! n. 1550. 



50. MABA MOTLEYI, sp. nov. 



M. foliis ellipticis vel oblongis, apice rotundatis, basi angustatis, glabris, coriaceis, breviter 

 petiolatis ; foribus subsolitariis, tetrameris, pedunculis glabris ; calycis lobis rotundatis, emargi- 

 natis, valde imbricatis ; staminibus 25, glabris, receptaculo insertis; in flore femineo staminodiis 

 16, ovario ovoideo-conico, glabro, 3-loculari, loculis biovulatis ; fructibus oblongis, glabris, 

 I-spermis, calyce fructifero parvo, patente ; seminibus teretibus, albumine ruminate. 



A tall slender tree, glabrous except the extremities and inflorescence where there is 

 a weak ferruginous or whitish pubescence ; branches spreading at 45 55. Leaves alter- 

 nate, elliptical or oblong, coriaceous, glabrous, rounded at apex, slightly narrowed at base, 

 2 3 \ in. long by 2 in. wide, petiole -^ f in. long ; midrib depressed above, lateral veins 

 rather close, inconspicuous. Flowers yellow, subsolitary on short glabrous peduncles -^ \ in. 

 long, tetramerous. 



$ . Corolla J in. long, funnel-shaped, deeply 4-fid with spreading lobes, glabrous ; 

 stamens 25, mostly equal, inserted on the receptacle, free, with very short filaments; anthers 

 linear, glabrous. 



$. Flowers f in. long. Calyx \ ^ in. long, with scattered short weak hairs, 4-fid ; 

 with rounded emarginate much imbricated lobes, giving the calyx the appearance of being 

 truncate. Staminodes 16 or more, glabrous; style 4?-lobed at apex; ovary ovoid-conical, 

 glabrous, 3-celled, cells bi-ovuled. Fruit oblong, glabrous, f in. long by in. thick, 1-seeded. 

 Fruit-calyx small, 4-fid, \ in. across, loose or spreading ; seed \ in. long, nearly terete, \ in. 

 thick ; albumen ruminated. 



Borneo, Bangarmassing, Mr J. Motley ! n. 721 ; Labuan, Mr Barber ! n. 167, common on 

 sandy soil near the barracks. 



51. MABA MYRMECOCALYX, sp. nov. 



M. qlabra, foliis ellipticis, alternis, apice breviter et obtuse acuminatis, basi obtusis vel subro- 

 tundis, coriaceis, nitentibus, petiolatis; fructibus solitariis, axillaribus vel lateralibus, breviter 

 pedunculatis, ellipsoideis, nitentibus, apice obsolete pubescentibus, calyce fructifero hemisphcerico, 

 breviter 4:-lobo, coriaceo, verrucoso, glabro. 



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