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■15 in. long. Male flowers about -15 in. long, 8 or 10 together in dense 
sessile axillary clusters not much exceeding the petioles. Calyx sessile 
or nearly so, campanulate, slightly pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 
deeply divided into 3 broadly ovate acute lobes. Corolla tubular ; 
adpressed-sericeous externally, glabrous inside, cut half-way down into 
3 ovate acute lobes. Stamens 12, 6 of them united by the bases of 
their filaments ; anthers of all lanceolate apiculate, their bases cordate. 
Female flower not known. Fruit obliquely ellipsoid, the apex shortly 
apiculate, glabrous; the calyx at the base sub-ligneous, flat, deeply 
divided into 3 broad ovate-rotund lobes with reflexed edges and blunt 
tips. Seeds 2, oblong. 
Pekak : Wray 3130 ; King’s Collector 3945, 5519. 
7. Maba buxifolia, Pers. Syn. II. (1807) 606. A bush or small tree ; 
young branches puberulous at first, ultimately glabrous. Leaves 
small, alternate, coriaceous; varying from elliptic to obovate, the 
apex sub-acute or obtuse, the base always narrowed ; upper surface 
olivaceous, the lower brown ; the midrib bold ; reticulations rather 
distinct on the upper surface only ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, spreading, 
slightly prominent on the upper surface, indistinct on the lower ; edges 
slightly recurved; length -35 to 1 in.; breadth -3 to -6 in. ; larger in the 
varieties ; petiole less than -5 in. Flowers solitary, or 2 to 3 in short 
cymes, 3-merous. Calyx -1 in. long, campanulate, with short triangular 
lobes. Corolla campanulate with short triangular lobes. Male flowers : 
stamens 6 to 12, glabrous ; rudimentary ovary hairy. Female flower : 
stamens none; ovary 3-celled; style at the apex 3-lobed. Fruit 
globose or ellipsoid, -35 in. long, 1-seeded. Calyx at its base 
cupular, often very short; albumen equable. Wight Ic. t. 763; A. DC. 
Prod. VIII. 240 ; Thwaites Enum. PL Ceyl. 183 ; Trimen PI. 
Ceyl. III. 89 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 116 ; Kurz 
Por. PI. II. 139 ; Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 551. M. 
littorea, Br. Prod. 527. M. Cumingiana, M. madagascariensis, M. 
guineensis, M. Smithiana, A. DC. l.c. 241. M. neilgherrensis, Wight 
ill. t. 148 bis. E. M. Ebenus, Wight Ic. tt. 1288-9 ( not of Spreng.). 
Maba ? Wall. Cat. 7461. Ferreola buxifolia, Boxb. Cor. PI. I. 35, t. 45, 
and PI. Ind. III. 790. 
Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 979 ; Griffith (K.D.) 3641. Langkawi : 
Curtis 2557. Penang: Curtis 708.— Distkib. Malay Archipelago, 
Br. India, N. Australia, Philippines, tropical Africa. 
A variable species, of which two varieties are recognised by Mr. C. B. Clarke in 
Hooker’s “ Flora of British India.” Both these have leaves longer than as above 
described, but neither occurs in our region. 
