512 LXXXI. EBENACER (HIERN). [ Huclea. 
Leaves alternate, pubescent or not glaucous. . . 4. EZ. multiflora. 
Fruiting calyx-tube consolidated . . . . . . . . 8 EB Sructuosa. 
Ovary glabrous. 
Leaves often terete. Ovary 2-celledl. . . . . . . 6. E. bilocularis. 
Leaves subopposite. Ovary 4-celled. . . , 7. E. Kellau. 
1. E. pseudebenus, H. Mey. Cat. Pl. Eusice. Afr, Austr. Drég. 
p. 7 (1837). A more or less pubescent leafy shrub, ranging up to 8 
ft. in height. Leaves alternate, crowded, linear, apiculate or mucro- 
nate, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, pubescent or glabrescent, erect or 
spreading, 1-2} by ;1,-}in.; petiole j-} in. Male cymes racemose, 
hairy, 3-7-flowered, erect or erect-patent, }—? in. long; pedicels slender, 
yo-3 in. long; flowers dicecious, white, yo—? in. long, hoary-pubescent, 
usually pentamerous ; calyx cleft, lobes deltoid; corolla shortly lobed 
at the apex; stamens 12-22; anthers glabrous or sparingly hairy; 
filaments more or less connate below, inserted around the base of the 
rudimentary ovary. Female flowers solitary or 2-3 together in small 
cymes ; staminodes 0; ovary 4-celled, pubescent. Fruit globose, } in. 
diam., 1-celled, 1-seeded, glaucous, bluish, fleshy, edible. Seed marked 
with 3 depressed lines ; albumen not or scarcely ruminated.—H. angus- 
tifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. p. 441. 
Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, native name “ Emboto” as also of the next spe- 
cies, Welwitseh ! “ South of the Line,” Curror ! 
South Central. 23°S. Lat., Chapman and Baines! 
Occurs also in the Western districts of the Cape Flora, where it is known by the 
name of Orange River Ebony. 
2. H. lanceolata, H. Mey.Cat. Pl. Busicc, Afr. Austr. Drég. p. 7 
(1837). A shrub or small tree, ranging from 1 to 12 ft. in height or 
more; branches terete; young shoots angular. Leaves alternate or 
more usually opposite, lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, obtuse or sub- 
acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, 1-3 by }-14 in., 
more or less wavy ; petioles ranging up to } in. Flowers racemose, 
dioecious, white or tinged with red ; bracts small or foliaceous. Male 
racemes usually 5-9-flowered, 3-2 in. long; flowers 2-2 in. long, 
tetramerous or rarely pentamerous ; calyx widely campanulate, short, 
cleft, lobes deltoid ; corolla campanulate, deeply cleft, lobes oval, some- 
what pubescent outside; stamens usually 16, rarely fewer, inserte 
mostly in pairs at the base of the corolla-tube ; ovary rudimentary, 
hirsute ; styles 2, glabrous. Female racemes 4-4 in. long, 3-/- 
flowered ; pedicels very short; staminodes 0 ; ovary subglobose, densely 
hirsute, 4-celled ; styles 2, glabrous. Fruit globose, + in. diam. or 
rather larger, reddish or dark purple, edible, pubescent or glabrate, 
l-celled. Seed solitary ; testa somewhat intruded into the albumen. 
—Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 97, cum syn. 
Our specimens belong to two forms, as follows :— 
a. Leaves glabrous and shining, the young ones lepidote. 
Lower Guinea. Benguella, Mossamedes (native name “ Emboto”) and Huila, 
Welwitsch ! 
B. Leaves and shoots pubescent. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Welwitsch! 
The species extends over several districts of the Cape Flora. - 
