650 BENGAL PLANTS. (Maba. 
Flowers usually dicecious, regular, axillary, sessile, or shortly 
cymose, usually bracteate; pedicels articulate. Sepals connate 
in an inferior calyx; lobes 3-7, valvate, imbricate, or contorted, 
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as many as the styles, pendulous, anatropous, attached to inner 
angles of cells. Frwit a coriaceous or fleshy berry, several- or 
few-seeded. Seeds pendulous, usually oblong, longitudinally oe 
furrowed ; testa thin; albumen copious, uniform or ruminated ; 
embryo axial ; radicle superior. 
Flowers 3-merous ; ovary 3- or 6-celled Maba. 
Flowers 4-5-merous ; ovary 4-5- or 8-10-celled ................. Diospyros. 
527. Maba. Forst. 
Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire. Flowers dicecious, 
axillary, short-pedicelled, or in small, dense cymes; whorls 
usually 3-merous, rarely 4—5-merous. Sepals 8, less often 4-5, 
in a 
tube usually longer than the calyx, free above, contorted dex- 
trorsely in bud. ¢ Stamens 8-22: filaments distinct or paired 
or polyadelphous; anthers oblong. Ovary rudimentary. ? 
Staminodes 0-12. Carpels connate in a 8-celled or imperfectly * 
perfectly 6-celled ovary; ovules 6; styles or style-arms 3. Fruit 
a globose or ellipsoid, glabrous or hairy, 1-6-celled and 1~-6-seeded, 
dry or fleshy berry. Seeds with equable albumen. 
1168. Masa suxtirozra Pers.; F. B. I. iii. 551; E. D. M. 8. 
Ferreola buxifolia F. I. iii, 790. 
Orissa, in dry hills. 
A small tree. Uriya Guaholi, pisina. 
