Maba.] LXXVI. EBENACEvE. 963 



in the females. Ovary rudimentary but villous in the males, very villous, 3- 

 celled or rarely 2-celled in the females, with 2 ovules in each cell, without any 

 spurious dissepiment between them. Fruit not seen. 

 Hab,: Cumberland Islands, JR. Brown (Herb. E. Brown). 



2. M. sericocarpa (fruit silky), F. v. M. Fragm.. v. 164 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 289. A tree with slender branehlets, silky-pubescent with rust-coloured 

 hairs. Leaves on very short petioles, oval-elliptical or oblong, shortly and 

 obtusely acuminate, coriaceous, covered or sprinkled with appressed hairs, which 

 are more abundant on the under side, becoming nearly glabrous above when old, 

 the reticulate veinlets scarcely conspicuous, 3 to 4in. long. Male flowers only 

 seen in very young bud, they are then 3 to 5 together on an exceedingly short 

 peduncle, densely silky-villous, the calyx tubular-conical, about 3 lines long, the 

 corolla as yet enclosed in it, and the stamens not numerous. Female flowers 

 not seen. Fruits solitary, nearly sessile. Calyx cup-shaped, appressed, with 

 broad triangular lobes nearly as long as the berry, which is globular, silky-hairy, 

 4 to 5 lines diameter. 



Hab.: Bookingham Bay, Dallachy ; Eumundi ; other localities along the North Coast 

 Railway line. 



3. M. rufa (hairs red), Labill. Sert. Austr. Calid. 83 t. 36; DC. Prod. 

 viii. 241. Shrub. Branches fulvous-pilose. Leaves 3 to 4in. long, 6 to 10 

 lines broad, on petioles of 3 to 4 lines, lanceolate, obtusely-acuminate, base 

 acute, coriacious, the young ones pilose on both sides, at length glabrescent. 

 Peduncles axillary, shorter than the calyxes. Calyx 3-fid, pilose, lobes ovate- 

 rotundate. Fruit 5 to 7 lines long, solitary, twice as long as the calyx, ovoid, 

 silky with reddish hairs, 3-eelled. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell. 



Hab.: Herbert Elver, H. G. Eaton; Cairns, E. Cowley. 



4. IKE. hemicycloides (Hemioyclia-like), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 290. A small tree, with slender branches, quite glabrous except the fruit. 

 Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or oval-oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 

 thinly coriaceous, finely veined, 3 to 4in. long. Flowers not seen. Fruit 

 nearly sessile and solitary. Calyx very small, glabrous, 3-lobed, spreading. 

 Berry ovoid or globular, minutely silkyrhairy, about -^in. long. 



Hab.: Bookingham Bay, Dallachy. 



The foliage and small calyx are nearly those of M. laxiflora, of which it may possibly prove 

 to be the female. — Benth. 



5. IKE. laxiflora (flowers loose), Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 290. A tall shrub, 

 quite glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, oval-oblong or elliptical, acuminate, 

 coriaceous, shining but reticulate above, obscurely veined underneath, mostly 3 

 to 4in. long. Flowers small, rather numerous, in loose sessile dichotomous 

 cymes longer than the petioles. Calyx short and broad, slightly 3-lobed. 

 Corolla scarcely 2 lines long, with 3 broad very obtuse lobes. Stamens about 20. 

 Ovary rudimentary, quite glabrous as well as the whole flower. Female plant 

 not seen. 



Hab.: Eockhampton, O'Shanesy. 



The foliage is nearly that of M. fasciculosa, but the flowers are much smaller, differently 

 shaped, and the inflorescence much looser. — Benth. 



6. m. fasciculosa (flowers in clusters), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 163 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iv. 290. A tail tree, quite glabrous^ Leaves petiolate, oval-oblong 

 or elliptical, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, shining above and scarcely opaque 

 underneath, not much reticulate, 3 to 5in. long. Female flowers often numerous, 

 in axillary clusters or short cymes. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes deeper 

 and more spreading at the time of flowering than in other species. Corolla- 

 tube short, the lobes broad. Staminodia none in the female flowers. Ovary 



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