Royena.| EBENACEH (Hiern). 458 
Burchell, 2502! Transvaal; Waterval River, Wilms, 919! hills near Aapies 
River, Rehmann, 4334! Klipriver Berg, near Johannesburg, Rand, 884! 
EASTERN ReGion: Natal; near Van Reenen, 5500 ft., Schlechter, 6956! 
Wocd, 5658! near the Tugela River, 4000 ft., Wood, 3592! bank of the Mooi 
oe 5000 ft., Sutherland ! Washbank, Newcastle district, 3000-100) ft., Wood, 
904! 
There is considerable variation, as was noted by Thunberg, both in the size of 
the leaves and in the abundance of the tomentum; the form which has the 
smallest leaves is R. microphylla, Burchell, 1696, 2502. R. hirsuta, Herb. 
Ecklon, 698, is R. lucida, Linn. 
The Hottentot name of var. 8 is ‘‘ Grietie-Rom” ; it flowers either in spring 
(October) or in autumn (April), according to the rains, the more usual season 
being the spring (Bolus, MS.). 
8. R. sessilifolia (Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 84) ; 
a shrub; stem erect; branches spreading at a wide angle, pubescent ; 
periderm of the stem subepidermal; leaves alternate, oblong- 
obovate or obovate, sessile, rounded or retuse at the apex, narrowed 
to the obtuse base, submembranous, pubescent beneath and when 
young on both surfaces, 13-2 in. long, 3-11 in. broad; lateral 
veins not very conspicuous, impressed on the upper surface; 
flowers subdicecious, pallid, fragrant, 4 in. long; peduncles 
axillary, 1-flowered, shorter than the flowers, pubescent; calyx 
5-partite, + in. long, pubescent outside ; segments lanceolate, erect- 
patent and 3-veined ; corolla urceolate, 5-lobed, pubescent outside, 
glabrous within; lobes recurved, obtuse and +; in. long; stamens 
14, glabrous ; filaments short; anthers dehiseing from the apex ; 
pollen globular, smooth; ovary rudimentary, rounded, pubescent. 
Diospyros sessilifolia, Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 73. 
Sourn Arrica?: described from a plant of unknown origin, cultivated at 
Kew, whence specimens were obtained in 1877 and 1880! 
A specimen in the Leiden herbarium with sessile leaves, which are coriaceous 
and mostly pointed at the apex with the lateral veins raised in relief on both 
surfaces, possibly belongs to this species ; it was cultivated in the Leiden Garden 
in 1785. 
R. latifolia, Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 23, without description ; 
Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 215; is unknown to me, but is perhaps best mentioned 
here. 
9. R. pallens (Thunb. Prodr. 80); a shrub or tree, usually not 
exceeding 15 ft. high, sometimes a large tree ; bark reddish-brown 
or turning black or sometimes grey, rough ; branches alternate, terete, 
_silky-pubescent with pallid hairs or glabrescent, more or less spread- 
ing, sometimes with a trailing or twining habit ; branchlets leafy, 
densely hairy ; leaves oblanceolate, obtuse or rarely pointed at the 
apex, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, silky especially beneath 
or glabrescent, green below the hairs, rather thick and firm, sub- 
coriaceous, alternate, opposite or subverticillate, evergreen or some- 
times deciduous, narrowly revolute on the margin, entire, }—2 in. 
long, 3-8 in. broad; petiole pubescent or puberulous, y'5—-} in. 
long; flowers whitish or yellow, hermaphrodite or subdiccious, 
4-2 in. long, pendulous; peduneles axillary, arching, 1- (or 
