142 MR HIEBJST, ON EBENACE^E. 



the base, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex (covered in the dried state, especially 

 beneath, with small warts) ; midrib on both sides fusculo-strigillose ; lateral veins 8 15, 

 uniting within the margin, and somewhat sunk above, with scattered hairs ; leaves at length 

 glabrescent except the midrib ; petioles about ^ in. long ; flowers unknown. 



Young fruit axillary, solitary, subsessile, ovoid, somewhat pointed at apex, scarcely 1 in. 

 long by in. thick ; calyx 3-partite, fusco-sericeous on both sides, f in. high, 1 in. across ; 

 lobes lanceolate acute ; young fruit 6-celled, with dense ferruginous hairs arising from small 

 rough warts, containing 6 young seeds. 



Equatorial Brazil, Province Rio Negro, found in thick damp woods by river Japura, near 

 Manacaru, in January, Martins ! 



56. MABA MYRISTICOIDES. 



M. foliis ovali-oblongis, apice acutis acuminatis, basi angustatis, tenuiter coriaceis, sub- 

 glabrescentibus, breviter petiolatis ; floribus masculis aggregates, sessilibus, axillaribus, pubescen- 

 tibus, scepissime trimeris rarius pentameris, staminibus 12 in floribus trimeris, circiter 30 in 

 floribus pentameris, antheris linearibus sericeis, filamentis brevibus glabris. 



Macreightia myristicoides, Spruce MSS. 



A small tree 3 7ft. high; young parts subferruginous-hairy; branches 3 together, long, 

 subsimple, brown, with appressed hairs. Leaves oval-oblong, somewhat narrowed at base, 

 acuminate and acute at apex, alternate, thinly coriaceous, midrib depressed above, 3 7 in. 

 long by 1 2 in. wide, with appressed scattered brown hairs especially beneath, subglabres- 

 cent ; petioles | in. long, with scattered spreading hairs. 



$. Flowers numerous, crowded in sessile axillary clusters, about f in- long or penta- 

 merous flowers in. long, covered with ferruginous straight hair, mostly trimerous, very rarely 

 pentamerous; calyx campanulate, 3-fid with deltoid acute lobes (very rarely 5-fid); corolla 

 white with ferruginous hairs; stamens 12 in trimerous flowers (about 30 in pentamerous 

 flowers), anthers linear, with long straight silky hairs, filaments combined, short, glabrous ; 

 ovary 0. 



N.W. Brazil, Near Panure by Rio Uaupe's, Spruce! 2542, October. 



57. MABA(?) CAULIFLORA. 



M. foliis ovali-oblongis, apice acuminatis vel breviter cuspidatis, basi rotundatis vel parum 

 angustatis, submembranaceis, subglabrescentibus, breviter petiolatis ; floribus femineis sessilibus, late- 

 ralibus, secus caules aggregatis, pentameris, pubescentibus, calyce 5-partito, corolla 5-partitd, 

 lobis oblongo-lanceolatis, staminodiis 10 14, geminatis, pilosis, stylo trifido, ovario rigide 

 piloso, 6 (f)-loculari. 



Diospyros cauliflora, Mart, in Fl. Bras. vil. Eben. p. 7 (1856), non Blume. 



A small tree; trunk sub-simple; branches crowded at the extremity, slender, terete, 

 pubescent with brown appressed hairs, glabrescent. Leaves submembranous, oval-oblong, 

 acuminate or shortly cuspidate, rounded or slightly narrowed at base, shining, with a few 

 scattered appressed hairs and prominent veins beneath, subglabrescent, glabrous above with 

 depressed veins, alternate, 3 9 in. long by If 3 in. wide ; petioles i ^ in. long, pubescent. 



