98 THIRD NOTES ON EBENACE. 
mountains and is described in the book as follow: ‘ Frutex : foliis 
oppositis lanceolato-cuneatis, apice rotundatis, sesquipoll. integris, 
glabris, sessilibus, vel breviter petiolatis, rigidis.” This description 
agrees with the Abyssinian specimens “i Euclea Kellaw rather better 
than does Forskil’s specimen seen by m 
The other Ebenaceous species found by Forskal in Tropical Arabia 
appears to be identi tical with Diospyros mespiliformis, Hochst. ; the 
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mer as greatly opposed to antecedent probability. The specimen 
jonas of a fruiting leafy branch ; but unfortunately the fruits are 
wanting, and the leaves and the fragmentary bases of two fruiting 
calyces only remain on the branch; nevertheless, I think that the 
closely resembles is Diospyros hirsuta, Linn. f., h is a variable 
species widely distributed over British India, and is well represented 
in Africa by the above-mentioned D. mespili icket 
the 
attached to the specimen is written: ‘‘ Ignota arbor— Bes —inter 
Ersch_ et Aludje”’ ; ie a, pore refer to the plant mentioned th in 
Forskal's Flora, p. 1 xxii.: * Bsvss.7— are Foliis alternis 
lanceolatis, cnbepith. "Wises breviter petiolatis ; squamis ad basin 
folii.” There is, no doubt, some difficulty in oathalnaiig what could’ 
eed al 
scales at the base of the young besiiohas which are occasionally notice- 
able in the specimens = D. mespiliformis even in the herbarium. 
Saree is a locality among the Roo = districts of Yer 
end “sipaiehy the same plant is given on is i vi, and attaiieot 
among the dense and fine woods suitable for ling purposes, and of 
unknown genera, under the Arabian name of Bsa 
Of the genus Maba a few species must be adde d. In the tenth 
em 
her of : 
from the descriptions given by him I cannot identify them with 
species Sak . mee and I therefore merely repeat his characters, 
which are as 
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x osissimus, pis ts ramuli foliaque etiam juniora 
iia sepe glauca. Folia ovalia, breviter petiolata, basi attenuata, 
margine vix revoluta, apice obtusa, subavenia, 2 poll. longa, 1 poll. 
lata, coriacea. Pedunculi 2-flori, multoties folio breviores, solitarii in 
n is, eat in masculis. Calyx ss abet semi-3-fidus, 
fructifer auctus, 3-gonus, interius levis. Corolla s mi-3- fida, extus 
a] , albo-lutea, lobis revolutis. Stamina 9°. omnino libera. 
tigma 3- nunc ‘ei partitum. Bacca globosa, glauca, vix senii-ponit- 
sperm: 
ROSEA, — hi +2 6%. 
Ramuli oo recentissime glabra. Folia ovata vel 
