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ovato-oblonga, pitiolsta; plerumque an rotundata, nunc subacumi- 
ata, margine subreflexa, basi attenuata, penninervia, supra lueida, 
ntose 
lobis ovato-acutis. Stamina 9, erecta, toro pubescente inserta 
nec corollx; filamenta antheris subsequalia. Flores feminei adhuc 
ignoti. 
r. S. Kurz, in a sketch of the vegetation of ane Nicobar falondt, 
published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volum 
xly. Dont 2, no. iii., p. 138, nu. 270 (1876), has ribed in the piss 
ing ‘ter 
MaBa ANDAMANICA 
Frutex sempervirens, 3-5-pedalis, ib oo ochraceo-hirsutis vel 
pubescentibus; folia elliptica ad ovato-oblonga, petiolo brevissimo 
brunneo-tomentello suffulta, basi sakordite’ abrupte acuminata vel 
apiculata, integra, 4-6 poll. longa, chartacea, supra glabra, subtus 
secus costam carn ae adpresse fulvo-puberula, laxe reticulata; 
flores feminei tantum , 3-meri, axillares, sessiles, solitarit ; calyx 
profunde 3 lobus, lobis walk pees ilosis ; baccse subsicee, elliptico- 
oblonge vel oblonge, plus m_ pollice longe, stylo mucronate, 
leves, sepius 3-spermz ; semina 5 Rance. 
This plant had Pye previously panty Macreightia ( wor g ed 
tatiana by Mr. z in his report on the vegetation 
man Islands, p. 42, ond. edition (1370), 1 but without Teatieuie waa 
has been in the meantime referred by him to Maba sumatrana, Miq. ; 
it was noted by me in the Monograph, page 124. The weep og 
quoted above does not enable me to fix its exact position in the genus 
and the specimen ae on Andaman which was seen by me is with- 
under a new n: 
The aoe is a new species from Samo: 
Mana samoensts, Hiern.—M. rigida, foliis “ellipticis vel ovato- 
ehptiie apice obtuse angustatis basi subeuneatis glaberrimis coriaceis 
e presertim subtus reticulatis ge ba concoloribus margine 
undulatis breviter ae —— s a is secus ramulos os lateralibus 
