450 EBENACE® (Hiern). [ Royena. 
Eastern Reaton: Natal; on grassy plains near the Tugela River, Gerrard 
¥ McKen, 1609! 
5. R. Galpini (Hiern); shrubby, tomentose, not very closely 
branched, leafy ; leaves alternate, entire, oval, obtusely narrowed or 
nearly rounded at the apex, truncate, rounded or very obtuse at the 
base, thinly coriaceous, yellowish-green, strigosely pubescent and 
minutely glandular-pulverulent above, pallid-tawny and softly tomen- 
tose beneath, 2-5 in. long, 1-21 in. broad; petiole 4—3 in. long 
tomentose; peduncles 1-flowered, drooping, about }--} in. long, 
bracteate above the middle ; bracts narrow; flowers axillary, solitary, 
white or creamy-white, 1-2 in. long; calyx shaggy-tomentose on 
both surfaces, 1—2 in. long, very deeply lobed; segments ovate- 
lanceolate, acute; corolla deeply lobed, partly pubeseent outside, 
glabrous within ; lobes oblong, obtuse, about in. long and j% in. 
broad, hairy at the apex and partly down the outer face, glabrous 
where covered by the adjoining petal in the bud, finally spreading 
or reflexed ; stamens 10, in one row, equal, } in. long; filaments 
inserted at the base of the corolla, very short; anthers lanceo- 
late, hispid along the back, glabrous on the face; ovary ovoid- 
conical, somewhat pyramidal, marked with 5 raised hairy vertical 
lines and intervening glabrous spaces, terminating in 5 glabrous 
styles, 1 in. long altogether, 10-celled. 
Kananari Reaion: Transvaal; grassy plains and hill-sides near Barberton, 
2800-4000 {t., alt., Galpin, 603 ! 
Eastern Reaion: Zululand; Umlalaas, below 1000 ft., alt., Wylie in Herb. 
Wood, 7900! 8630! 
6. R. villosa (Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. ii. 302); a pubescent 
shrub, trailing; branches patent, 5-40 ft. long; branchlets leafy, 
patent; leaves alternate, obovate-oblong, rounded, emarginate or 
shortly pointed at the apex, more or less cordate at the base, thinly” 
coriaceous, entire, glabrescent and dark green above, paler green and 
hairy beneath, sometimes with the veinlets pellucid or with minute 
pellueid points, often wrinkled with impressed venation in the dry 
state, narrowly revolute on the margin, 1-5 in. long, }-2} in. 
broad ; petiole 1—% in. long, hairy; flowers hermaphrodite, yellow, 
fragrant, about 1 in. long, densely pubescent; peduncles axillary, 
l-flowered and 1-1 in. long or 3-flowered longer and with 
pedicels of about 1, in., bracteate, hairy; bracts usually 2 and 
subopposite, smaller and narrower than the leaves, deciduous ; 
calyx 5-partite, accrescent in fruit, + in. long in flower; segments 
lanceolate or ovate in flower and broadly ovate in fruit; corolla 
tomentose outside except near the base, glabrous within, deeply 
5-lobed ; lobes oblong, about 1 in. long and recurving; stamens 10; 
anthers densely shaggy; ovary 8- or 10-celled; style 5—4-lobed ; 
stigmas punctiform; fruit globose-pentagonal, tomentose or hispid 
with yellowish hairs, }— in. long, sometimes dehiscent from the apex 
with 5 valves, surrounded with and not much exceeding the enlarged 
