550 xc. EBBNACEiE. (0. B. Clarke.) [Mala. 



inferior, gamoaepalous, in fruit often accrescent. Corolla gamopetalous, often 

 hairy without. Stamens aa many or 2-3 times as many as the corolla-lobes, 

 hypogynous, free or filaments paired or variously united ; anthers narrow, de- 

 hiscing longitudinally ; staminodes in the female flower resembling stamens or 

 0. Ovary superior, seasUe ; styles 2-8 ; cells as many or twice as many as 

 the styles, imperfectly septate ; ovules twice as many as the styles, attached 

 to the interior angle of the cells, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit coriaceous or 

 fleshy, indehiscent, several- or few-seeded. Seeds pendulous, usually oblong, 

 longitudinally 2-3-furrowed, testa thin, albumen copious equable or ruminated ; 

 embryo axUe, radicle superior. — Species 250, in the tropics of the whole world ; 

 a few species in South Africa and Noith America. 



Flowers often S-merous. Ovary 3- or 6-celled 1. Maba. 



Flowers mostly 4-5-meroiis. Ovary 4-6- or 8-10-celled .... 2. Diosptbos. 



1. MAS A, J. S. ^ G. Forst. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers dioecious (monoecious in 

 M. Maingayi), axillary, short-pedicelled or in small dense cymes ; usually 3- 

 merous, rarely 4-5-merous. Calyx 3-5-partite or 3-5-fid, rarely aubtruncate, 

 often cupuliform and enlarged in fruit. Cwollortuhe usually longer than the 

 calyx, lobes 3, twisted to the right-hand. Male jlowers: stamens 3-22; fila- 

 ments distinct, paired or otherwise united ; anthers oblong ; ovary rudimentary. 

 Female Jlorwers : staminodes 0-12 ; ovaiy 3-celled, or 6-celied, or 3-celled with 

 imperfect dissepiments between the ovules ; 6-ovulate. Fruit ellipsoid or 

 globose, glabrous or hairy, 1-6-eelled, 1-6-seeded. Albumen not ruminated 

 (where known) in any of the Indian species except M. Maingayi. — ^Distbib. 

 Species 60, in the tropics of both hemispheres and frequent in Australia and 

 Polynesia. 



Sect. I. Ferreola (Hiern in Trans. Oamb. PhU. Soc. xii. 107). Calyx- 

 lobe? not much imbricated. Ovary densely hairy. 



* Fruiting calyx small, 3-partite, patent or rejlexed. 



1. m. acuminata, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 112; leaves 

 elliptic much acuminate, stamens 4-5, fruit J in. diam. tomentose. Macreightia 

 acuminata, Thwaites Enum. 424 ; Sedd. For. Man. 147. 



Ceylon ; Hinidoon Pattoo, Thwaites. 



A medium-sized tree ; branchlets fulvo-sericeous, soon glabrescent. Leaves 3 by 

 1-1 J in., thinly coriaceous, soon glabrescent; base rhomtoid or almost rounded; 

 petiole i in. Male fl. . calyx ^ in. ; corolla-tube t in. ; rudiment of ovary oblong, 

 acute, pilose. 



2. m. oblong^ifolla, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 112 ; leaves 

 oblong or elliptic acuminate, stamens about 12, fruit f-1 in. diam. brown 

 tomentose almost hirsute. Macreightia oblongifolia, Thwaites Enum. 183 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. {Anal. Gen.) t. 21, fig. 1, and For. Man. 147, not of Kurz. 



Ceylon ; Galle and Eatnapoora, Thwaites. 



A small tree ; branchlets patently fulvous-hairy, at length glabrescent. Leaves 

 6 by 2^ in., base rounded, subcoriaceous, pate"ntly fulvous hairy on the nerves beneath, 

 ultimately glabrous ; petiole J-^ in. Male fl. crowded, sessUe ; calyx ^ in., shortly 

 3-lobed; corolla-tube j in., limb 3-fid ; stamens glabrous ; rudiment of ovary minute, 

 pilose. Fetnale fl. solitary, subsessile; calyx i in., divided nearly to the base; 

 corolla-limb 3-iid ; stamens ; ovary 3-celled, style divided into 3 glabrous stigmas. 

 Fruit 3 -6-seeded. Seeds J by J in., black, albumen equable. 



