Royena. | _ EBENACE# (Hiern). 445 
Calyx not accrescent. Stamens 8-80, usually not in one row. Phellogen 
usually pericyclic. 
III. Maba.—Flowers dicecious, 3-merous. Calyx not accrescent. Phellogen 
subepidermal. 
IV. Diospyros.—F lowers normally dicecious, 4- or 5-merous. Calyx more or less 
accrescent, Phellogen subepidermal. 
Leucoxilon laurinum, E. Meyer ex Drége, Cat. Pl. Exsice. Afr. Austr. 7, is 
Ilex capensis, Sond. §° Harv. 
I. ROYENA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely subdicecious, in most species 
5-merous and solitary. Calyx campanulate or urceolate, pubescent, 
more or less accrescent in fruit. Corolla urceolate or eampanulate 
or rarely oblong, toothed or lobed. Stamens 5-14, in most species 
10, inserted in one row, usually two in front of each corolla-lobe, 
near the base of the corolla-tube; filaments short ; anthers lanceolate- 
linear, usually hispid. Ovary conical, 2-10-celled, pubescent or 
hispid ; ovules solitary in the cells; style 2—5-cleft at the apex. 
Fruit globose, ovoid, oblong or spheroidal, }—1 in. long, more or less 
covered or based with the enlarged persistent calyx, 1—5-celled, more 
or less fleshy when ripe, sometimes splitting from the apex with 
valves ; seeds glabrous, with a thin testa. 
Shrubs or small trees or sometimes rather large trees; leaves entire, normally 
alternate, very rarely opposite, more or less coriaceous; periderm of the stem 
arising from the pericycle. 
It is one of the characteristic genera of the Karroo region. The Kaffir 
names, “ Um-gambeza” and “ Leeke ” are quoted for several species of the genus 
by Thomas R. Sim, Fl. Kaffr. 54. 
DistriB, In addition to the following a few species occur in Tropical Africa. 
Royena foliis acute dentatis et veluti spinosis flore luteo, Houst. mss. ex Linn. 
Sp. Pl. ed. i. 628, is Leselia ciliata, Linn. 
Leaves mostly alternate; stamens 6-14, usually 10; ovary 
4-10-celled : 
Flowers 5-8-merous, usualiy pentamerous ; fruit not or 
rarely glandular: _ 
Calyx shortly lobed : 
Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-oblong ; _corolla- 
tube glabrous outside; stamens 6 or 7, 
glabrous Ke dd wie oe ... (1) Wilmsii. 
Leaves oval or somewhat ovate ; corolla-tu 
pubescent outside ; stamens 10, hispid ... (2) lucida. 
Calyx divided half-way down or deeper : 
Leaves cordate or rounded or very obtuse at 
the base : 
Style bifid ; leaves subsessile : 
Leaves oval or oblong, smooth, not 
strongly nerved at the base; flowers 
hermaphrodite, yellowish ... ... (3) cordata, 
Leaves ovate, scabrid, strongly 3-5- 
nerved at the base; flowers ap- 
parently dicecious, white ....... (4) seabrida. 
Style 5-4-cleft; leaves distinctly petio- 
late: 
Flowers creamy white, }~3 in.long... (5) Galpini, 
