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two in each fascicle on a short densely hairy pedicel, rotate, '3 or '4 in. 
in diam. Calyx very coriaceous, divided to the base into 3 spreading 
broadly ovate lobes with broad blunt apices and concave bases, partly 
adpressed-pilose and partly glabrescent. Corolla smaller and less 
coriaceous than the calyx, tubular, glabrous, its lobes ovate-elliptic. 
Male flowers with 6 stamens in 2 rows, 3 of them small ; 
anthers cordate, filaments flat ; rudimentary ovary ovoid, apiculate, 
with a dense ring of coarse hair at its base. Female flowers with a 
few flat staminodes ; the ovary broadly ovoid apiculate, hirsute in its 
lower part ; styles 3, glabrous, distinct, the stigmas broad. Fruit 
ovoid-globular, glabrous, -75 in. long and -6 in. in diam., blunt at apex 
and base, the latter subtended by the 3- sometimes 4-lobed, thick, 
almost woody, accrescent calyx, its lobes spreading, their edges reflexed. 
Seeds elliptic, plano-convex. Diospyros venosa, Wall. Cat. 4126. 
Singapore : Ridley 4961 ; King’s Collector 3495, 3862, 7643. 
3. Maba olivacea, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 50 to 70 feet 
high ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, puberulous, pale 
cinereous when dry. Leaves coriaceous, alternate ; elliptic, shortly and 
abruptly apiculate, the base rounded or cuneate, the edges much 
recurved when dry ; upper surface olivaceous, shining, glabrous except 
the depressed rusty-puberulous midrib; lower surface softly velvety- 
pubescent, olivaceous, the hair on the bold midrib and 5 to 8 pairs 
of curved spreading rather prominent main-nerves rusty ; length 3 to 
5 - 5 in. ; breadth 1-5 to 2-25 in. ; petiole -4 in., tomentose. Male floivers 
sessile, -15 in. long, in branched condensed axillary and extra-axillary 
cymes less than 1 in. long ; bracteoles broad, blunt, small. Calyx 1 in. 
long, tubular-campanulate, tomentose outside, glabrous inside, divided 
nearly to the base into 4 broadly ovate obtuse erect lobes. Corolla 
cylindric-campanulate, glabrous except the hairy edges of the 4 oblong 
lobes. Stamens 8 large and 4 small, lanceolate, on short filaments. 
Female floivers not seen. Fruit ellipsoid, blunt at each end, the apex 
crowned by the short style, glabrous, about ‘5 in. long, and -4 in. in 
diam. Calyx at the base of the fruit thick, spreading, - 6 in. across, 
with 4 ovate, blunt lobes with reflexed edges. 
Perak : King's Collector 7877 ; Wray 1269. Lankawi : Curtis 
1661. 
4. Maba merguensis, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 134 
(1873). A small, nearly glabrous tree; young branches thicker than a 
crow-quill. Leaves alternate, thinly coriaceous, ovate or elliptic, shortly 
and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded ; main-nerves 3 to 
5 pairs, slightly curved, ascending ; length 3 to 5-5 in. ; breadth 1-65 
to 2 65 in. , petiole about '25 in. long. Male flowers in dense minutely 
