443 EBENACES (Hiern.) | [| Royena. 
824; Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fasc.ix 69; Giirke in 
Engl. § Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. i. 157, fig. 84, A—E ; Molisch 
in Sitzb. d. Mathem.—Naturw. Cl. Wien, Ixxx. Abth. i. 638, 66, 
70; Schnizlein, Iconographia, t. 159, f. 1; Drége in Linnea, 
xx. 191; Melliss, St. Helena, 294; Drege, Zwei Pf. Documente, 
89, 125, 139, 217.—Pistachia africana, s. Staphylodendron Atthio- 
picum MovodracroxadrAnvopevopuddov singulart hirsuto folio nitente, 
Plukenet, Almag. 298, Phytogr. t. 63, f. 4, t. 317, f. 5. Sta- 
phylodendron Africanum, folio singular lucido, Herm. Parad. 
Bat. 232, with plate; J. Burm. Cat. Pl. Afr. 22. Staphyloden- 
dron Africanum sempervirens foliis splendentibus, J. Burm. Le. 
33. 
South AFRICA: without locality, Oldenland! Thunberg ! Roxburgh! 
Bowie! Mund! Harvey! Alezander! Herb. Linnzus ! 
Coast Recton: Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Kloof, Ecklon & Zeyher! Cape 
Div.; Devils Mountain, Drége, Ecklon, 693! Pappe! Wolley Dod, 3463! near 
Cape Town, Harvey? Caledon Div.; mountains near Genadendal, Krauss. 
Swellendam Div.; near Grootvaders Bosch, 1000-4000 ft., Zeyher, 3352! 
Ruggens, near Zuurbraak, 600 ft., Galpin, 4320! Knysna Div.; near Kaatjes 
Kraal, Burchell, 5256! near Knysna, Burchell, 5415! near Bosch River, Drége ; 
Albany Div.; top of Zwarthoogdens Mountain, near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 
309! Fort Beaufort Div.; hills near Kat River, Drége! Stockenstrom Div. ; 
near Philipton, Ecklon §* Zeyher ! Cathcart Div. ; Cathcart, Kuntze. 
CentraL Ree@ion: Somerset Div.; at the foot of Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 
Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 2833! upper part of Bruintjes Hoogte, Burchell, 
3062/2! 
Hinenaka Recion : Orange River Colony, Cooper, 1062! 2692! Basutoland, 
Cooper, 2157 ! 
Eastern Reaion: Griqualand East; Vaal Bank, Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 
4188! Natal; between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 2227! Van 
Reenens Pass, Rehmann, 7242! and without precise locality, Sutherland ! 
It is the “ Zwartbast ” of the Cape colonists; the wood is hard and tough, of 
a yellow tint with brownish stripes when polished, and well adapted for farniture, 
tools, screws, &c. It is also called ‘‘ Kraai-besjes” (Burchell, 5256). The 
Kaffirs call it ‘* Omgugunga.” It has also been called “African bladder-out.” 
3. R. cordata (E. Meyer, ex Drége, Cat. Pl. Exsiec. Afr.-Austr. 
7); an evergreen shrub, erect, rigid, densely branched, 2-6 ft. high ; 
stem terete; branches erect-patent; branchlets leafy; young parts 
subferruginous-pubescent, soon glabrescent ; leaves alternate, oval or 
oblong or sometimes rotund, rounded or obtusely pointed at the 
apex or apiculate, usually strongly cordate at the base, ascending 
and sometimes adpressed, firmly coriaceous, rigid, entire, glabrescent 
and glossy above, glabrate or pubescent beneath, subsessile, }—2$ in. 
long, 3-14 in. broad; the lateral veins inconspicuous or on the 
larger leaves clearly marked beneath ; mesophyll bifacial; flowers 
hermaphrodite, axillary and quasi-terminal, sometimes forming 
bracteate quasi-racemes of 1-1} in. long, yellow or white or pale- 
cream, in. long ; peduncles arching, 1-flowered, hirsute or pubes- 
cent, bibracteate, 1-14 in. long; bracts ovate or oval-apiculate, more 
or less hirsute, ciliate, deciduous, alternate, {—} in. long ; flowering 
calyx 5-partite, shaggy on both surfaces, 1-1 in. long, accrescent ; 
