454: EBENACES® (Hiern), [| Royena. 
rarely 2-) flowered, bearing 2 or 3 bracts about or above the 
middle, longer than the flowers, pubescent, somewhat thickened 
at the apex, 2-4 in. long; bracts lanceolate, alternate, deciduous, 
3-1 in. long ; calyx deeply 5-lobed, rounded below, pubescent on 
both surfaces, + in. long in flower, more or less accrescent, {—} in. 
long in fruit; lobes ovate or lanceolate, acute, erect and adpressed 
to the corolla-tube, finally spreading or reflexed; corolla cam- 
panulate-rotate, deeply 5-lobed, rather thick and fleshy, somewhat 
hairy outside, glabrous within; tube very short; lobes ovate-oblong, 
revolute and 1 in. long ; stamens 10, equal, }—2 in. long; filaments 
very short, flat, glabrous; anthers linear-laneeolate, hairy on the 
back and at the apex, 1—1 in. long ; ovary ovoid-conical or sub- 
globose, silky-pubescent, with the style about ¢ in. long, 6-10- 
celled ; style deeply 3—5-cleft, terete ; stigmas punetiform, glabrous ; 
fruit subglobose or ovoid, pubescent or hispidulous or rarely glabrate, 
1_]1 in. in diam., sometimes bursting with valves from the apex. 
Poir. Eneycl. vi. 322; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 391; Drege, 
Zwei Pfl. Documente, 137, 217; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 213; 
Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 85; Parmentier in Ann. 
Univers. Lyon, vi. fuse. ii.71; Hiern in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 510; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 647 ; Melliss, St. Helena, 294 ; Schinz, 
Deutsch Siidwest Afrika, 66; not of Herb. Willd. n. 8363! R. 
pallens, B. Dregei, Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 214. R. hirsuta, Jacq. 
Collect. v. 110, t. 13, f. 1; not of Linn., nor of Sieber, nor of 
Ecklon. R. lycioides, Desf. Tabl. Ecole Bot. 79; Alph. DC. Prodr. 
viii. 214. Diospyros lycioides, Desf. in Ann. Mus. Paris, vi. 448, t. 
62, f.1. BR. pubescens, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 457 ; Drege, le. 
123, 142, 217 ; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 213; Herb. Willd. n. 83641, 
not of Edwards, Bot. Reg. t. 500. R. decidua, Burchell, Trav. 8. 
Afr. i. 317. BR. cuneata, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 360; not of Pow. 
R. brachiata, E. Meyer ex Drege, Cat. Pl. Exsice. Afr. Austr. q, 
and Zwei Pfl. Doewmente, 127, 217; Alph. DC., Lc. 213. RK. 
cuneifolia, E. Meyer, l.c., and ex Drige, Cat. Siid-Afr. Pfl. 9, and 
Zwei Pfl. Documente; 58, 93, 132, 188, 217; Alph. DC. te. 214 ; 
Krauss in Flora, 1844, 824. R. ramulosa, E. Meyer ex Alph. 
DC. Prodr. viii. 212. R. sericea, Bernh. ex Krauss in Flora, 
1844, 824; Walp. Rep. vi. 457. R. oleifolia, Desf., and kh. 
hispidula, Harv. ex Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 85. 
Royena (sp.), Burchell, l.c. i. 390, 381 ( fig.). 
Souri A¥RICA: without locality, Thunberg / Masson! Zeyher, 3348! 3354! 
Alewander ! Ferrawa, 516. z 
Coast Rxeeion: Worcester Div.; near Matjesfontein (Maggisfontein by 
error), Rehmann, 2915! 2917! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Burchell, 7860 ? 
Robertson Div.; Kogmans Kloof, Kuntze ; Riversdale Div.; by the Zoetemelks 
River, Burchell, 6813! Muis Kraal, Galpin, 4319! Mossel Bay Div. 3 Drie- 
fontein, Drége; dry channel of an arm of the Gauritz River, Burchell, 6490! 
Knysna Div.; Groene Valley, Burchell, 5632! near Knysna, Bowie! Krauss, 
1721! Uitenhage Div. ; various localities, Burchell, 4501! Drege! Zeyher, 164! 
819! 1127! Ecklon § Zeyher, 14! Bowie! Tredgold! Port Elizabeth Div. ; 
- Krakkakamma, Zeyher, $44! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3789 ! 
Albany Div.; various localities, Burchell, 38961 3472! 4184! Williamson ! 
