Reyena.| EBENACEX (Hiern), 455 
Bolton! Hutton! Miss Bowker! Baur! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 
759! Stockenstrom Div. ; Chumie (Tyumie) Berg, Ecklon § Zeyher ! Queens- 
town Div., Cooper, 272! Cathcart Div.; Toise River, Kuntze; Goshen, Baur, 
925! King Williamstown Div. ; between Buffalo and Yellowwood Rivers, Drége ; 
East London Div.; East London, Kuntze. 
CENTRAL ReGion: Somerset Div.; by Little and Great Fish Rivers, 2000- 
3000 ft., Dirége, Burke! Commadagga, Burchell, 3301! 3825! Bruyntjes- 
Hoogte, Burchell, 3080! between Vogel River and Loots Kloof, and by the 
Klein Fish River, MacOwan, 1646! Graaff Reinet Div.; mountains south-west 
of Graaff Reinet, Burchell, 2930! near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 128! 
Cradock Div.; near Cradock, Kuntze, Cooper, 2691! Beaufort West Div. ; 
Nieuwveld, Drége; Beaufort West, Kuntze. Victoria West Div.; between 
Brak River and Uitvlugt, Drége! Aliwal North Diy.; Aliwal North, Kuntze. 
Hopetown Div. ; near Hopetown, 4500 ft., Muskett in Herb. Bolus, 128! ; 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; Orange River, near Verleptpram, 
below 500 ft., Drége! Streeuwberg, Wyley, 103! Great Namaqualand ; ‘Tiras, 
Schinz. 
Katanari Recion: Herbert Div.; by the Vaal River, at Blauwbosch Drift, 
Burchell, 1750! Kimberley, Marloth, 816! Bechuanaland ; Maadje Mountain, 
Burchell, 2371! Orange River Colony ; Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett- 
Hamilton ! Bloemfontein, Kuntze. Transvaal ; various localities, Galpin, 1094! 
6042! Rand, 708! Rehmann, 4090! 4091! Wilms, 921! Holub! Burke ! 
Easrern ReGion: Tembuland; Klip Krans near Bazeia, Baur, 260! Natal ; 
near Durban, Krauss, 423! Weenen County, Sutherland! Mawbys Boot, 
Sanderson, 318! Inauda, Wood! Mlovo Forest, Wood, 6434! Tugela River, 
Wood, 3853! Umsondus River, Rehmann, 7641! and without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 129! 1607! 1610! 6151! Peddie! Sanderson, 140! 511! 423! 527! 
717! Cooper, 1238 ! 
This tree is the Royena mentioned by Barchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 390, and repre- 
sented in his engraving, p. 381, and by his n, 1750, It is said to be naturalized 
in the island of St. Helena, and to be called ‘‘ Poison Peach” by the colonists, 
In parts of Cape Colony it is called ‘‘Monkey Plum,” and in the Kalahari 
Region it is known as “ Zwartbast ” (black bark) ; it occurs also in South 
tropical Africa. 
10. R. ambigua (Venten. Jard. Malm. n. 17); a shrub ; branches 
numerous, erect-patent or ascending ; branchlets more or less tomen- 
tose throughout, leafy ; leaves alternate, obovate-oval, rounded or 
apiculate at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, dull green, 
thinly, coriaceous, sometimes minutely pellucid-punctate, softly 
pubescent at least on the principal veins beneath and on the margin, 
1-2 in. long, }—% in. broad; petiole ;),-1 in. long, pubescent ; 
flowers subdiccious ; the female ones drooping, orange-yellow or 
yellowish, somewhat fragrant, 1—! in. long; peduncles axillary, 
1-flowered, pubescent, arching, ;3,—® in. long, bearing 2 or 3 alternate 
linear silky bracts near or above the middle; calyx deeply 5- or 
6-cleft, hairy, } in. long, aecrescent in fruit; lobes lanceolate or 
ovate, or in fruit ovate-oblong ; corolla broadly urceolate, 5-8-cleft, 
pubescent outside, containing honey; lobes oblong, obtuse, reflexed 
and rather shorter than the tube; staminodes 10-14, shorter than 
the corolla-tube, inserted at its base, converging towards the apex 
round the ovary; filaments flat, glabrous below, hairy above ; 
anthers (sterile) brown ; ovary globose, pubescent, pale yellow, 5-7- 
furrowed, 10-celled ; styles 5-7, slender, united at the base, pale 
yellow, longer than the staminodes ; fruit globular, pubescent, bright 
