Royena. | EBENACES (Hiern). 447 
fruit ; teeth ereet, deltoid, acuminate ; corolla tubular, 1—1 in. long, 
somewhat longer than or shorter and narrower than, and enclosed in 
the calyx, 5- or 6-cleft; tube glabrous outside ; lobes oval-oblong or 
lanceolate-oval, hairy on the upper part outside, ciliate, glabrous 
within, about as long as the tube; stamens or staminodes 6 or 7, 
inserted in one row near the bottom of the corolla-tube, erect, 
glabrous, 4; in. long; anthers narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, 
sessile ; ovary ovoid-conical, hairy, glandular, 4-celled, 1 in. long, 
together with the 4-cieft style 1 in. long; ovules solitary ; fruit 
enclosed in the enlarged calyx, 1-1 in. in diam. ;  fruiting-calyx 
ovoid-globose, inflated, coriaceous, nearly or quite glabrous, somewhat 
plicate, very shortly lobed at the apex, 1 in. long, * in. in diam. 
fi. lucida, &. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1908, 403, not of Linn, 
KALAHARI ReGion: Transvaal; near Pretoria, Wilms, 923! hills near 
Greylingstad, Rand, 1325! 
2. R. lucida (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 397); an evergreen shrub 
4-12 ft. high or a tree’; stem or trunk erect, terete, often somewhat 
torulose, 5-12 in, thick ; bark nearly smooth, dusky grey or whitish ; 
wood light, porous; branches numerous, spreading, flexuous, leafy ; 
young parts, peduneles, bracts and calyx clothed with subferruginous 
pubescence ; leaves alternate, oval or somewhat ovate, usually 
broadly pointed at the apex and. obtuse or rounded at the base, 
coriaceous, glabrescent and shining above, beneath more or less 
hirsute especially along the midrib and margin or glabrate, entire, 
3-2; in. long, 3-1} in. broad; lateral veins not conspicuous ; 
petioles very short, ;-} in. long; mesophyll bifacial ; peduncles 
j-1 in. long, axillary, on the branchlets, spreading or arching, 
bearing 1-3 small lanceolate or foliaceous bracts ; flowers solitary, 
hermaphrodite, white or yellowish, 1—1 in. long; calyx urceolate, 
3-4 in. long, 5-toothed, accrescent in fruit, teeth short and usually 
acute ; corolla-tube urceolate, pubescent outside, shortly exceeding 
the calyx;  corolla-limb reflexed, 5-partite, puberulous on both 
surfaces ; segments rounded, 1-1! in. long; stamens 10, inserted 
around the base of the corolla, equal, } in. long; filaments glabrous, 
very short ; anthers lanceolate-linear, hispid on the upper half of 
the back; ovary conical, included, pubescent, usually 4-celled, 
terminating in the cleft style, glabrous at the apex ; stigmas puneti- 
form; fruit ovoid or subglobose, }—1 in. long, enclosed in the 
pubescent or subglabrate somewhat pentagonal inflated ealyx, red or 
purple and fleshy when ripe, 2—4-celled ; the flesh firm, whitish ; 
seeds oblong, solitary, glabrous, shining, yellowish; testa thin ; 
albumen cartilaginous, hard, white; embryo }-% as long as the 
albumen, somewhat curved; cotyledons ovate, rather shorter than 
the radicle. Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 80, t. 94, f. 4; Thunb. Prodr. 80, and 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 390; Jacq. Fragm. 3, t. 1, f. 6; Poir. Eneyel. 
vi. 321; Desf. in Ann. Mus. vi. 450, t. 62, 7.3; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 
1846, t. 40; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 211; Pappe, Silva Cap. 20; 
Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii, 80; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 
