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pubescent branching axillary cymes only 1 to I'O in. in diam. Calyx 

 less than -25 in. long, with 3 or 4 obtuse triangular lobes. Corolla 

 slightly larger than the calyx, shortly 3- or 4-lobed. Stamens 14 to 

 16, glabrous ; rudimentary ovary minute. Female flowers 3- or 

 4-merous. Calyx lobed half-way down. Corolla 3- or 4-merous ; 

 Staminodes 3 or 4. Ovary-cells 6, 1-ovulate. Styles 3, distant, 

 glabrous. Fruit sub-globular ; its calyx "5 in. in diam. with 3 

 ovate acute spreading lobes. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. XLVI., 

 ii. 232, and For. M. II. 139; Clarke in Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. III. 

 652. 



Penang: Relfer (K.D.) 3618; Curtis 705, 718.— Disteib. Burma. 



Very imperfectly represented in Herbaria. 



5. Maba Claekeana, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 20 to 30 feet 

 high ; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, puberulous when 

 young, ultimately glabrous, cinereous with small black strias. Leaves 

 alternate, coriaceous ; oblong, the apex blunt and sometimes minutely 

 notched, the base cuneate ; upper surface olivaceous, glabrous, shining 

 when dry ; lower surface dull, paler, sparsely and deciduously adpressed- 

 pubescent and the minute reticulations rather distinct ; main-nerves 

 6 or 7 pairs, spreading, very faint on both surfaces ; midrib bold in the 

 lower, depressed on the upper surface ; length 1*5 to 3 in., breadth 

 •65 to 1"25 in. ; petioles •! in. long. Male floioers smaU (only "1 to "15 in. 

 long), crowded in sessile cymes "25 to "5 in. long, in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, with a few oblong bracteoles. Calyx sessile or sub- 

 sessile, adpressed-pubescent outside, glabrous inside, divided half-way 

 down into 3 sub-erect broadly ovate acute lobes. Corolla smaller than 

 the calyx, densely sericeous outside, glabrous inside, divided to the 

 base into 3 ovate-lanceolate, with an inner row of 3 or 6 similar 

 but narrower, lobes. Stamens 6, in pairs, joined by the bases of their 

 broad filaments ; anthers lanceolate. Female flotuer unknown. Fruit 

 globular, -35 in. in diam., glabrous. Calyx at its base thick, with 

 3 obtuse angles. Seeds 3, 3-sided, -25 in. long. 



Peeak : King's Collector 4816. 



6. Maba peeakensis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 50 to 60 feet 

 high ; young branches as thick as a crow-quill, minutely puberulous 

 becoming glabrous, dark-coloured, sub-glaucous. Leaves coriaceous, 

 alternate ; rather broadly oblong to oblong-lanceolate, the apex acute, 

 the base broad and rounded or slightly cuneate ; both surfaces dark 

 olivaceous, the upper shining, the lower dull ; main-nerves obsolete ; 

 midrib minutely pubescent, prominent on the lower surface, depressed 

 on the upper ; length 2-5 to 3 in., breadth "75 to 1'35 in. ; petioles 



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