446 EBENACEZ (Hiern). [ Royena. 
Flowers yellow, about 4 in. long ... (6) villosa. 
Leaves narrowed at the base, not cordate : 
Peduncles short, not or scarcely longer 
than the solitary flowers : 
Leaves subsessile, }-1 in. long ; 
anthers 10, hairy we 2 
Leaves sessile, 14-2 in. long; anthers 
14, glabrous ... ae ee, : 
Peduncles nearly as long as the leaves or 
much longer than the flowers or 5-1- 
flowered : 
Flowers usually solitary : 
Leaves not reticular-rugose : 
Fruiting calyx-lobe 4-} in. 
long : 
Branches moderately 
dense; hairs pallid ; 
fruit globular or ovoid : 
Flowers usually 
hermaphro dite; 
leaves obovate or 
oblanceolate ... (9) pallens. 
Flowers —_ subdice- 
cious ; leaves obo- 
vate-oval ... (10) ambigua. 
Branches very dense; 
hairs solitary; fruit 
ellipsoid or oblong ... (11) nitens. 
Fruiting calyx-lobes 3-1 in. 
long se bis ... (12) Simii. 
Leaves reticular-rugose ... ... (13) Guerkei. 
Flowers often cymose : 
Leaves narrowly elliptic, 3-14 in. 
oe ess ies ... (14) glabra. 
Leaves obovate, 2-64 in. long ... (15) parviflora. 
Flowers usually tetramerous ; fruit glandular-hispid ... (16) glandulosa. 
Leaves opposite ; stamens 5; ovary 2-celled .., ees ... (17) pentandra. 
(7) hirsuta. 
(8) sessilifolia. 
1. R. Wilmsii (Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 60); a° small shrub, 
bush or tree ; branches intricate, somewhat rugose or knotty, glab- 
rate, dusky-ashy; branchlets hirsute and puberulous-tomentellous 
with short dull tawny hairs, leafy; leaves alternate, lanceolate: or 
elliptic-oblong, obtusely narrowed or somewhat acuminate or apicu- 
late at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base, firmly coriaceous, 
pale-green, subglaucescent, glabrate or ciliate, sometimes thinly 
pilose on the midrib and beneath, entire, minutely dotted, 2—2 in. 
long, }—3 in. broad ; reticulation slender; petiole ~,—1 in. long, 
tomentellous-pubescent or hirsute; flowers hermaphrodite or sub- 
dicecious, axillary, solitary, } in. long ; peduncle pubeseent-tomen- 
tose, or in fruit glabrescent, 1—1 in. long, bibracteate at or near the 
apex ; bracts opposite or alternate, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, sessile, 
apiculate, entire, cordate-auriculate at the base, pubescent-tomentel- 
lous and somewhat pulverulent on the back, glabrous within, ciliate, 
4—1 in. long, 34;-1 in. broad; calyx shortly tubular-urceolate, obtuse 
at the base, shortly 5- or 6-lobed, pubescent-tomentose on both 
sides, sessile-glandular, 3-1 in. long, accrescent and glabrate in 
