ME HIEBJSr, ON EBENACE^E. 141 



campanulate, T 3 7 in. long, hairy on both sides, with 5 deltoid lobes J length of calyx. 

 Corolla 5-fid, with ovate-oblong lobes, glabrous within. Stamens 50 60, with linear slender 

 hispid-pilose anthers and short filaments combined at the base, inserted at base of corolla ; 

 ovary rudimentary. 



Hermaphrodite flowers solitary, on peduncles ^ in. long ; calyx 4 5-fid, with ovate lobes ; 

 corolla 4 5-fid ; stamens about 32, perfect (?), not all in one row, somewhat silky, linear ; 

 inserted at base of corolla. Ovary 6-celled, 6-ovuled, silky, ovate-conical. Styles 3, emarginate, 

 imbricated. Fruit subsessile, ellipsoidal, suddenly conical at apex, flavo-pubescent with 

 longer hairs interspersed, about 1 in. long by | in. thick, fleshy, 6-celled ; fruiting peduncles 

 thickened upwards with wide articulation at apex ; fruiting calyx | in. long, with 4 or 5 

 lanceolate lobes J in. long, lying close to fruit or spreading, tomentose inside ; seeds solitary, 

 elongated, fusiform ; embryo twice the length of the albumen. 



Brazil, Minas Geraes, Claussen ! 67, 464, 1062 (fruit glabrate, globular -fa in. in dia- 

 meter, drupaceous, 1 -celled) ; Martins!; Goydz, along the Caminho da Carreira, Burchelll 

 6970, 6986 2 ; called in Brazil " Culhoens de Macato," Burchell ; near Bahia, Blanchet 3358 

 ex Miq. in Mart. I. c. 



54. MABA(?) COEDATA, sp. nov. 



M. ramulis piloso-hispidis ; foliis dblongis, apice acuminatis, basi supra-cordatis, submem- 

 branaceis, supra subglabris, subtus secus costam nervos et margines piloso-hispidis, breviter 

 petiolatis ; floribus femineis subsessilibus, 1 2-nis, fructibus immaturis basi globosis, apice ab- 

 rupte et longe conicis, dense pilosis, 6-locularibus ; loculis I-spermis (-ovulatis) ; stylo 3-lobo; 

 calyce 4 5-partito, extus pubescente, lobis lanceolatis patentibus. 



Shoots, midrib, lateral veins below, and margins- of leaves pilose-hispid with tawny hairs ; 

 branches terete ; leaves alternate, oblong, acuminate, deeply cordate, submembranous, nearly 

 glabrous and yellowish green above with inconspicuous slightly-depressed veins, paler beneath 

 with clearly marked tawny veins, 4 8 in. long by l^ 2^ in. wide ; petioles \ in. long, 



? . Flowers subsessile, axillary, 1 or 2 together ; young fruit with globular base and 

 long suddenly conical apex terminating in 3-lobed style, together | in. long by in. thick, 

 densely fulvo-pilose, 6-celled, cells 1-ovuled (-seeded) ; fruiting calyx pubescent outside, gla- 

 brous inside, 4 5-partite ; lobes lanceolate, acute, \ in. long, spreading, subcoriaceous. 



Borneo, 0. Beccari! n. 1429. 



55. MABA MYRMECOCARPA. 



M. foliis oblongis, apice acutis vel breviter acuminatis, basi angustatis, nervo excepto gla- 

 brescentibus, submenlbranaceis, breviter petiolatis; fructibus aonllaribus, solitariis, subsessilibus, 

 ovoideis, dense ferrugineo-hispidis, 6-locularibus ; calyce fructifero 3-partito, utrinque fusco- 

 sericeo, lobis acutis. 



Diospyros (?) myrmecocarpus, Mart, in Fl. Bras. vii. Eben. p. 7 (1856). 

 Tree ; shoots with spreading ferruginous hispid hairs, dull, glabrescent, terete. Leaves 

 rather thickly membranous, narrowly oblong, 47 in. long by 1 2 in. wide, contracted at 



