Royena. | EBENACES (Hiern). 449 
segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate and acute; corolla 5-cleft, about 
in. long; tube ;4,—-1 in. long and glabrous; lobes ovate-oblong, 
1_1 in. long, subglabrous or puberulous and often reflexed at the 
tips; stamens 10, inserted at the base of the corolla, 2 in. long; 
filaments very short; anthers hairy; ovary ovoid-eonical, hispid, 
usually 4-celled ; style bilobed or styles 2; ovules solitary ; fruit 
subglobose, 1—3 in. in diam., enclosed in the enlarged calyx; fruiting 
calyx dilated, deeply 5-cleft, 5-winged, }—-1 in. long; segments 
glabrate, deltoid-ovate, cordate or auriculate at the base, reddish on 
the margin. Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 56, 141, 217; Alph. 
DC. Prodr, viii. 211; Hiern in Trans. Cambr, Phil. Soc. xii. 81; 
Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 70. R. opaca, EF. 
Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 135, 217; Alph. DC., Le. 
R. supracordata, Burch. ex Hiern, l.c. 
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Sees 
Sourn ArFrica: without locality, Masson! Bowie! 
Coast REGIon: Uniondale Div.; Long Kloof, Burchell, 4907! Uitenhage 
Div. ; Zuurberg Range, between Enon and Driefontein, 2000-3000 ft., Drége ! 
Alexandria Div.; Olifants Hoek, Zeyher! Bathurst Div.; near the Kowie 
River, MacOwan, 429! Glenfilling, Drége! Albany Div.; between the source 
of Kasuga River and the Bushmans River, Burchell, 4166! 4186! Fish River 
Heights, Mrs. Hutton! Fort Beaufort Div. ; near Fort Beaufort, 1000-2000 ft., 
Ecklon & Zeyher! Queenstown Div, ; near Queenstown, Galpin, 15591 and 
without precise locality, Mrs. Barber, 307! Cathcart Div. ; Windvogel Moun- 
tain, Baur, 1120! East London Diy.; near the mouth of the Keiskamma River, 
Mrs, Hutton! British Katfraria, Cooper, 35! 186! 306! : 
Centrat Recion: Graaff Reinet Div., 3000-4000 ft.; Oude Berg, Drége ; 
Cave Mountain near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 527! : 
Katauart ReGion: Transvaal; hills near Pretoria, 4100 ft., MeLea in 
Herb. Bolus, 3103! 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; Tongaat, Cooper, 3485! Inanda, Wood, 1232! 
near Murchison, 2000 ft., Wood, 478! 8059! and without precise locality, 
Gerrard § McKen, 12! 18! 99! Gueinzius! Zululand, 1000-2000 ft., Wylie 
in Herb. Wood, 5686 ! 
Most of the specimens from the Eastern Region are rather more hairy than 
those from the other regions. 
4. R. scabrida (Harv. ex Hiern in Trans. Cambr, Phil. Soc. 
xii. 82); a shrub, 8-15 ft. high; branches simple, pilose at the 
extremities with pallid hairs; leaves altcrnate, entire, ovate, acute or 
obtuse at the apex, cordate at the base, dotted and seabrid especially 
beneath, silky when young, shining above, subsessile, strongly 3-5- 
nerved at the base, 11-21 in, long, 7-12 in. broad, with a narrowly 
revolute margin; flowers apparently dicecious ; the male flowers 
nearly 3+ in, long, white, axillary ; peduncles 1-flowered, much 
shorter than the leaves, bracteate; bracts ovate, acuminate ; ealyx 
5-partite, erect, pilose-setose, $ in. long ; segments ovate, acuminate, 
broad-based; corolla campanulate-urceolate, adpressedly pilose, 
deeply 5-cleft ; lobes 3 in, long, ovate-oblong, acute ; stamens 10, in 
one row, equal, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, 1 in. long ; 
filaments very short, hairy at the apex; anthers linear, acute, hairy 
towards the apex; ovary rudimentary, hairy; style bifid, glabrous 
above, hairy below ; female flowers and fruit not seen. 
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