Royena. | EBENACE (Hiern). 451 
wrinkled calyx. Poir. Encyel. vi. 321; Meerburg, Pl. Rar. t. 43; 
Thunb. Prodr. 80, and Fl. Cap, ed. Schultes, 390; Alph. DC, 
Prodr. viii. 213; Hiernin Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 82; Drége, 
Zwei Pfl. Doeumente, 132, 139, 159,217; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 
824 ; Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 70. R. scabra, 
Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 13. R. scandens, Burch. ex Hiern, lc. 
fi. longifolia, Cels, Cat. 1817, 33, name only, is probably this species. 
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Masson! Thunberg! Alewander ! Miller ! 
Herb. Linneus ! 
Coast Reeion: Uitenhage Div.; near the lead-mine by Maitland River, 
Burchell, 4506! Addo, 1000-2000 ft., Drege, Ecklon §° Zeyher, 464! Albany 
Div. ; ina ravine by the spring at Blaauw Krantz, Burchell, 3673! Kloof east of 
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Woest hill, Grahamstown, MacOwan, 516! near the Bushmans River and Geel- 
houtboom, Drége / near Alicedale, 1500 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 
234! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3793! British Kaffraria, 
Cooper, 1! 
Katanarkt Rraion: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2006! Basutoland, 
Cooper, 2687! 
KastERN ReGion: Natal; near Durban, Drége! McKen, 613! Wylie in 
Herb. Wood, 6262! near Murchison, 2000 ft., Wood, 3058! Inanda, Wood, 613! 
forests by the Umlaas River, Krauss, 226! 472! 432, and without precise 
locality, Stuart! Gerrard §° McKen, 614! 2013! Gerrard, 30! Sanderson, 
150! 613! 715! Cooper, 2689! 2690! Gueinzius ! 
The Boer name is ‘‘ Zwart-bast ”; the wood is used for the bodies of waggons 
and for making yokes for draught oxen, (Thunberg, Travels, English 3rd edit., 
ii. 111). A specimen is recorded from the neighbourhood of Brisbane, Queens- 
land (Jowrn. Bot. 1875, 353). 
7. R. hirsuta (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 397); a rigid shrub, closely 
branched, more or less downy-hoary or tomentose, 11-15 ft. high ; 
branches terete, spreading, dusky or ashy; branchlets densely 
leafy, knotty; leaves alternate, oblanceolate, obtuse, rounded, 
apiculate or subacute at the apex, wedge-shaped or somewhat 
narrowed at the base, coriaceous, rigid, entire, nearly flat or revolute 
along the margin, hairy and rugose with raised midrib and more or 
less conspicuous veins or pitted beneath, sometimes deciduous, 
subsessile or shortly petiolate, 1-1 in. long, ;4—% in. broad; 
petiole very short or ranging up to + in. long; flowers usually 
hermaphrodite, occasionally diccious, white, pink or searlet, 1-1 
in. long ; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, arching or deflexed, 
shorter than or equalling the flowers, ;4,—} in. long, usually bibrac- 
teate about or above the middle; bracts narrow, often deciduous, 
about ;4; in. long; flowering calyx subcampanulate, deeply 5- 
lobed, hairy on both sides, 1-1 in. long; lobes ovate and erect ; 
corolla urceolate, 5-cleft, grey-felted outside, puberulous within ; 
lobes ovate or lanceolate-oblong, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 
equalling the tube and reflexed; stamens usually 10; filaments short, 
dilated ; anthers lanceolate, hairy ; ovary ovoid-conical, shaggy, 4-8- 
celled, in the female flowers with small glands at the base alternating 
with 6-9 staminodes ; styles usually 2, oceasionally 3 or 4; stigmas 
glabrous, more or less dilated, emarginate ; fruit globose or rarely 
obovoid, 3-2 in. long, more or less tomentose, red or pallid-tawny, 
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