Maha.] xo. EBENACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 551 



S. M. ovaUfoUa, Hiem in Tram. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 113 ; leaves 

 elliptic or subovate narrowed to a scarcely-acute apex, stamens 13-16. Mac- 

 reightia ovalifolia, Thwaites Enum. 424 ; Bedd. For. Man. 147. 



Ceylon ; Hinidoon Pattoo, Thwaites. 



A medium-sized tree ; branchlets patently fulvous-hairy soon glabrescent. Leaves 

 3 by li in., base rhomboid or nearly rounded, subcoriaceous, fulvous-hairy beneath 

 ■when young, soon glabrescent; petiole |-| in. Male fi. crowded, sessile ; calyx i in., 

 shortly acutely 3-lobed ; corolla-tube i in. ; limb 4-fid (in one example at least) ; 

 stamens glabrous ; ovary-rudiment minute. Femaie not known. 



** Fruiting calyx cupuliform at the base, often enlarged. 



4. UK. nlg^rescens, Dalz. in Bah. 8r Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 142 ; branchlets 

 patently fulvous-hairy, leaves lanceolate scarcely acute, male fl. subsessile in 

 short cymes, fruits ellipsoid ■yvhen young with fulvous hairs upwards. Hiem in 

 Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 115. 



Western Ghauts, from the Concan to Mysore ; Dalzell, Ritchie, &c. 



A tree, 15 to 36 ft. (Ritchie) ; young branches almost shaggy. Leaves 2 by f in., 

 narrowed at both ends, fulvous-hairy on the midrib beneath and margins, soon gla- 

 brescent ; primary nerves indistinct, secondary prominently finely reticulated ; petiole. 

 \ in. Mahfl. 1-5 together, 3-4-merous ; calyx J in., lobes short triangular; corolla 

 1 in,, tube campanulate ; stamens 9 or (in 4-merous flowers) 6-4, glabrous ; rudiment 

 of the ovary hairy. Female fl. 1-2 together, 3-merous ; stamens ; ovary 3-celled. 

 Fruit 5 by ^ in. ; calyx (in fruit) | in. diam., shortly cupuliform. 



5. SE. buxifolla, Pers. Syn. ii. 606 ; branchlets soon glabrous, leaves 

 ellij)tic or obovate obtuse, flowers 1-3 together subsessile in very short cymes, 

 fruits globose or ellipsoid soon glabrous. Wight Ic. t. 763 ; A. DC. Fiodr. viii. 

 240; Thwaites Enum. 183; Hiem in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 116; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. {Anal. Gen.) t. 19, fig. 4, and For. Man. 148, partly ; Kurz in Joum. 

 As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 232, and For. Fl. ii. 139. M. littorea, Br. Prodr. 527. M. 

 Cumingiana, madagascariensis, guineetnsis and Smeathmanni, A. EC. I. c. 241. 

 M. neilgherrensis, Wight III. t. 148, bis E. M. Ebenus, Wight Ic. tt. 1228-9, 

 not of Spreng. Maba?, Wall.Cat. 7461. Ferreola buxifolia, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 

 35, t. 45, and Fl. Ind. iii. 790. 



South Deccan Peninsula with Cetlon, common. Malay Peninsula ; from Pegu 

 to Malacca, frequent. — Distrib. Malay Islds. to N. Australia and the Philippines. 

 Tropical Africa with Madagascar. 



A bush, or in the hills a small tree. Leaves (very variable) \-l in., narrowed at the 

 base, soon glabrescent; primary nerves indistinct, secondary finely reticulated; 

 petiole jj in. Flowers 3-merous ; calyx ^ in., campanulate, lobes short triangular ; 

 corolla campanulate, lobes oblong. Male fl. : stamens 6-1 2, glabrous ; ovary-rudiment 

 hairy. Female fl: stamens 0; ovary 3-ceiled ; style 3-lobed at the apex. Fruit ^in., 

 1 -seeded; calyx in fruit cupuliform (often very shortly); albumen equable. 



Vab. Ebenus, Thwaites 1. a. ; leaves 2y by IJ in. elliptic rounded at both ends. — 

 M. Ebenus, sp. Wight, comes about half-way between this and the next var. 



Var. angustifoUa, Thwaites 1. c. ; leaves 3 by | in. narrowly cuneate at both ends. 

 — Except in the glabrate branches tiiis is nearly the same as M. nigrescens. 



6. m. andamanlca, Ku/rz in Joum. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 138, and For. 

 Fl. ii. 140 ; leaves large oblong patently hairy on the midrib beneath, female fl. 

 axillary solitary subsessile, berry ellipsoid more than an inch long. Macreightia 

 oblongifolia, Kurz Andam. Rep. 11, not of Thwaites. M. andamanica, Kwrn 

 Andam. Sep. ed. ii. 42. — See Hiei-n in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 124. 



Andaman Islds. ; in the upper forests frequent, Kurz. Nicobabs ; Kurz. 



A shrub, 3-5 ft. ; branchlets hairy. Leav^ 8 by 2f in., abruptly subobtusely 



