510 . LXXXI. EBENACE (HIERN). [ Royena. 
style or style-branches usually half as numerous as the ovules; stig- 
mas emarginate or punctiform ; ovules 4-10, solitary or in pairs (col- 
lateral) in the cells of the ovary, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit coriaceous 
or fleshy, indehiscent or rarely splitting in a valvate manner. Seeds 
1-8, pendulous, globose or segments of a sphere; testa thin; albumen 
cartilaginous or bony, copious, uniform or ruminated ; embryo 4-3 of 
the length of the seed; cotyledons foliaceous, ovate; radicle terete, 
superior.—Shrubs or trees, not spinous, usually with hard wood, often 
black in the centre. Leaves alternate or rarely subopposite opposite or 
ternate, simple, quite entire, shortly petiolate, exstipulate, evergreen 
or deciduous. Inflorescence axillary or lateral, short; flowers usually 
small, white flesh-coloured reddish or yellowish, solitary or several toge- 
ther. Fruit often edible... 
A Natural Order of 264 species, chiefly tropical and subtropical, most abundant 
in the East Indies; moreover about 60 fossil species have been published, a few of 
which seem to be correctly referred to this Order; 2 fossil species have occurred in 
the Libyan Desert, about 25° N. Lat., the geological age being Upper Cretaceous. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamensinonerow . . . . 1. ROYENA. 
Flowers diccious or rarely polygamous. Stamens usually 
in 2 or more rows. 
Calyx not accrescent. Staminodes usually absent 
from the female flower. Inflorescence racemose, 
rarely paniculate. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Evcrea. 
Calyx often accrescent. Staminodes often present in 
the female flower. Inflorescence cymose, not race- 
mose, sometimes 1-flowered. 
Ovary 3- or 6-celled. Flowers usually trimerous . 3. Masa. 
Ovary 4- or 8-celled. Flowers usually 4-5-merous . 4. D1osPpyRos. 
1. ROYENA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 663. 
Calyx deeply lobed (in our species), often accrescent in fruit ; 
lobes 5 or rarely 4, more or less pubescent or silky. Corolla campanu- 
late or urceolate, shortly exceeding the calyx, 5-cleft ; lobes obtuse, 
reflexed. Stamens 10, uniseriate, inserted at the base of the corolla- 
tube; filaments short, glabrous; anthers lanceolate-linear, somewhat 
hairy. Ovary conical, pubescent; cells twice as many as the 2 
styles or style-branches ; stigmas punctiform. Fruit globose ovoid or 
oblong, coriaceous, indehiscent or splitting. Seeds as in the Order ; 
albumen uniform.—Evergreen shrubs or small trees with alternate 
leaves, axillary peduncles and small hermaphrodite flowers. 
A genus of 13 species, all confined to the Cape Flora, except the following :— 
Fruiting calyx patent or reflexed . oe ee ee 1 RB, pallens. 
Fruiting calyxappressed 2 2... . . 2. RB, cistoides. 
1, BR. pallens, Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Oap., pars prior, p. 80 (1794). 
A shrub or small tree, ranging from afew inches to 15 ft. in height ; 
bark reddish brown ; branches silky pubescent or glabrescent, pallid. 
Leaves obovate-elliptical, often narrowly so, usually obtuse at the 
apex, narrowed towards the base into the petiole, coriaceous, 51 
especially beneath or glabrescent, 3-2 by 3-3 in.; petiole go-b 
