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t'enuated at the baste, obtusely acuminated at the apex, short-petiol* 

 «d, coriaceous, smooth : flowers white, minute, asillary, solitary* 

 sessile : fruit cylindric-obloni.', supported at the base by the enlarg- 

 led truncated calyx, dry, hard, 1-inch long. 



Southern GhautSj flowering in Febhiary and March. 



GENTJS in. MABA. 

 niieeia Octaiidria. Sex : Sysi • 



beriv. The name applied to the plant in Tongataboo. 



Gen. Char. Flowers dioecious: calyx half 3-cleft or 3-cleft, 

 cup-shaped : corolla urceolate or campanulate, 3-cleft : lobes con- 

 volute to the left in aestivation. Males. Stamens 3 or 6, sorhetiines 

 9, or 12 in pairs connate at the base, hypogynous, accrete at the 

 base With the hairy rudiment of a pistil : filaments slender: anthers 

 linear, often apiculated, dehiscing laterally. Ferhales. Stamens 

 none : ovary 3-Celled, hirsute : cells 2-seeded : stig:ma 3-partfed : 

 berry ellipsoid, seldom globose; smooth, 3-2-celled : seeds often 

 solitary in the cells, pendent, oblong, transversely furrowed near the 

 base, blackish.-'— Ti^ees, or shrubs (?) leaves alternate, small, ientite : 

 flowers solitary or twin, axillary, small, silbsessile : corolla usuallj^ 

 hairy outside ; hairs longj whitish, specially thick at the middle of 

 the lobes : filaments somiewhat equallirig the anthers in length. 



(1) M. BtJxiFOLiA. (Peri.) 



Ideni. Pers. Ench. 2. p. 606. — Dec. prod. VIII. p. 240; 



Syn. Ferreola buxifolia, Roxh. flor. Ind. III. p. 790. 



Engrdv. Wight's Icon. t. 763. — Roxb. Cor. I. t. 45. 



Spec. Chari Small tree: brandhlets and yoiing parts piibes- 

 teht : leaves obovate, cuneate at the base, coriaceous, thickened 

 at the margin, glabrous : flowers subsessilcj small, yello\^i^h : 

 males often ternate, females solitary : calyx campanulate, somewhat 

 3-cleft, hairy outside, lobes ovate, acute : corolla cylindrie, 3-cleft, 

 hairy outside, twice as long as the calyx, lobes ovate-oblong s 

 stamens 6 : fruit ovoid-globose^ 



Gircar mduntains, flowering in the hot season. 



(2) M. Neiigherrensis. (B. W.) 



I'dent. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. 



Engrav. Wight!, c. t. 1228-9. 



StEC. Char. Branchlets slender, glabrous : leaves elliptie-lan- 

 ceolatei obtusely acuminate, membranaceous, glabrous : flov»ers 

 axillary, males several, females solitary : calvx campanulate, 3- 

 lobed, hairy on both sides : corolla tubular, S^lobed, about twice 



