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*ROYENA lucida. 
Shining Royena. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Esenacex. (EBENADs, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 595.) 
ROYENA, L.— Flores subhermaphroditi. Calyx plerumque 5-partitus, 
nunc 5-fidus vel apice 5-lobus, pubescens, plerumque acerescens. Corolla 
5-fida, campanulata, lobis obtusis, sestivatione sinistrorsum convolutis. 
Stamina 10, basi corollee adnata, non lobis et sinubus opposita, sed duo ante 
basim lobi cujusque, in verticillum unicum disposita ; filamentis brevibus, 
simplicibus ; antheris lineari-lanceolatis, sepius hispidis, lateraliter dehis- 
centibus, in floribus femineis vacuis vel interdum abortientibus, Ovarium 
hirsutum, in floribus fem. 4-10-loculare, in masc. pauciloculare, non tamen 
deficiens. Stylus 2-5-lobus, vel potius styli 2-5, simplices vel apice subbilobi, 
basi coadunati, numero in fl. masc. reducto. Stigmata capitellata vel punc- 
tiformia. —Glendule 10, circa basin ovarii. Ovula in loculis solitaria, 
pendentia. Bacca coriacea, globosa, vel rarius ellipsoidea, in valvas 5 lobis 
calycinis oppositas non nunquam secedens, loculis (ubi 10) intra valvas 
geminis. Semina ellipsoidea vel oblongo-compréssa (in R. villosa), linea 
longitudinali parva. Suffrutices Capenses ; ramulis pilosis ; foliis alternis, 
integris, brevissime petiolatis, sub flore articulatis; floribus Aavidis, in her- 
bario nigrescentibus, masculinis femineisque magnitudine et forma externa 
similibus, vix interne distinctis.—R. ambigua Vent. florem ssepius 6-7-merum 
preebet, staminaque et styli numero aucta, sed culturae forsan effectu et enim 
R. pubescenti et pallenti admodum proxima.—A. DeCand. Prodr. viii. 210. 
$1. Calyx apice 5-lobus, accrescens. Styli duo. Ovarium 4-loculare. 
R. lucida ; ramulis hirsutis, foliis ovatis junioribus sericeis demum superne 
glabriusculis nitidis subtus presertim nervo et margine pilosis, pedun- 
culis folio triplo brevioribus hirsutis, calyce campanulato ampliato 
utrinque hirsuto apice breviter 5-dentato, corolla campanulata calyce 
duplo longiore profunde 5-fida, lobis obovatis utrinque puberulis,—4. 
DC. 1. e. 
R. lucida, Linn. sp. pl. 588. Thunb. A. cap. ed. Sch. p. 390. Lam. ill. 
t. 370. f. 1. Gertn. carp. 2. 80. t.94. Jacq. fragm. t. 1. f. 6. 
Desf. ann. mus. 6. 446. t. 62. f. 3. 
Staphylodendrum africanum folio singulari lucido, Herm. parad. t. 232. 
Staphylodendron africanum foliis splendentibus, Commelyn hort. amstelod. 
1. p. 187. t. 96. 
It is not a little remarkable that this fine old greenhouse 
shrub should not have found a place in any English collection 
* * Linnaeus named the genus after Adrian van Royen, professor of 
Botany in the University of Leyden, who died in 1779, aged 74, and was 
succeeded by his nephew David, who died in 1799." — Smith. 
