Royena. | LXXXI, EBENACER (HIERN). 511 
Flowers 3-3 in.long, white or yellowish, pentamerous or rarely tetra- 
merous ; peduncles solitary, 1- (rarely 2-) flowered, longer than the 
flowers, 2—-4in. long, arching, bearing 2-3 narrow bracts about or 
above the middle. Calyx partite; lobes ovate or lanceolate, acute, 
hairy, accrescent, in fruit spreading “or reflexed. Stamens half as 
long as the flower ; anthers hairy. Ovary hairy ; style 3-5-cleft, hairy. 
Fruit subglobose or ovoid, pubescent or rarely glabrate, 4-1 in. diam., 
sometimes bursting in a valvate manner.—Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p- 
85, cum syn. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, in woods and thickets, Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Seshike, 3,000 ft. alt., Kirk! Manganja hills, Meller ! 
Oceurs also, widely distributed, south of the Tropic. 
2. R. cistoides, Welw. ea Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 87 (1873). A 
low bush of 1-14 ft., with hard strong wood; branches terete, at 
length glabrate ; branchlets softly pubescent, erect ; fruiting branches 
arching-ascending. Leaves narrowly obovate, obtuse or mucronulate 
at the apex, narrowed to an obtuse base, subcoriaceous, hoary silky on 
both sides, rather veiny beneath, shortly petiolate, $-1} by 7-3 in. ; 
margins reflexed. Flowers unknown. Fruiting peduncles solitary, 
3-$ In. long, spreading, hairy, 1-fruited. Fruiting calyx deeply 5- 
lobed, hairy on both sides, appressed to the fruit, }- in. long; lobes 
elliptical, obtusely pointed. Fruit subglobose, puberulous, glossy, hard, 
3-30. diam., often splitting from the apex; colour golden. Seeds 
3), t in. long. 
Lower Guinea, Angola, Pungo Andongo, 3,500 ft. alt., Welwitsch! 
2, EUCLEA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 664. 
Calyx campanulate cup-shaped or subrotate, 4-5-lobed, not accres- 
cent ; lobes usually ovate or deltoid. Corolla campanulate or hemi- 
spherical, shortly exceeding the calyx, 4-5-lobed; lobes ovate or 
rounded. Stamens 10-22 (in our species), or in the female plant 0 or 
1, Presented by 2—4. glabrous staminodes, free or in pairs, inserted at 
€ base of the corolla-tube or around the rudimentary ovary. Ovary 
rtive in the male plant, in the female 4- or rarely 2-celled ; styles 
» Usually glabrous; ovules 4 in all. Fruit subglobose, indehiscent, 
"nally I-celled and 1-seeded. Seed globose, usually marked outside 
with 3 longitudinal depressed lines ; albumen uniform or ruminated.— 
vergreen shrubs or small trees with opposite subopposite alternate or 
Tarely ternate leaves, axillary racemes or panicles and small dicecious 
*Tarely polygamous flowers. 
A genus of 19 species, all confined to the Cape Flora, except the following :-— 
Ovary hai 
ry. 
pola shortly lobed at the apex 1, £, pseudebenus, 
orolla cleft or deeply lobed. 
Tulting calyx-tube receiving the base of the fru 
~ ‘owers racemose, 5-9 together 5 ioe ke 
ule flowers panicled or many together. EEO 
Ves opposite, glabrous and subglaucous above . 3, E. divinoru 
ae 
it. 
-, . 2. E. lanceolata. 
