456 EBENACE (Hiern). [ Royena. 
pale brown, nearly 3 in. in diam., sometimes dehiscent from the 
apex with 5 valves; fruiting calyx reflexed, 5-paitite ; segments 
oblong-lanceolate, 2 in. long; seeds 3, oblong, pendulous, 4 in. long. 
Male flowers not seen. Poiret in Lam. Encyel. Meth. Suppl. iv. 
722; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 214; Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. 
Soc. xii. 86. R. polyandra, B. ambigua, Pers. Syn. Pl. 1. 486. 
Diospyros ambigua, Venten. Jard. Malm. t. 17. Diplonema am- 
bigua, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 42. 
Katanart Rxecron: Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1126! Wonder- 
boom Poort, near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4527! and without precise locality, 
Burke ! 
Perhaps only a variety of the previous species, 
11. R. nitens (Harv. ex Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 
87); a shrub or undershrub, 13-4 ft. high; branches ascending, 
dense, terete, leafy ; young shoots silky-tomentose, shining with 
silvery-white hairs; bark dusky, somewhat glossy ; leaves alternate, 
narrowly elliptic, narrowed more or less towards both ends, coria- 
ceous, dark-green and glossy. above, silky-tomentose beneath with 
persistent pale hairs, subsessile, entire, 1-1} in. long, 9-5 in. broad ; 
flowers hermaphrodite or subdicecious, numerous, white, {—} in. long ; 
peduncles axillary, 1-fowered, pubescent, arching in fruit, about 
1_1 in. long, bibracteate above the middle ; bracts linear, pubescent, 
deciduous; calyx very deeply 5-lobed, pubescent on both surfaces, 
pallid, about + in. long in flower, accrescent, more or less spreading 
and about 3 in, in diam. under the fruit; segments lanceolate, sub- 
acute, 1-2 in. long ; corolla deeply 5-lobed, somewhat pubescent 
outside, glabrous within; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading or 
reflexed ; stamens 10, erect, about 4 in. long or shorter in quasi- 
female flowers; filaments very short, glabrous, flattened ; anthers 
hispid ; ovary hirsute; styles 3-5, glabrous; fruit spheroidal or 
oblong, puberulous with very short inconspicuous hairs, splitting 
from the somewhat pointed apex, 3-1 in. long, j-% in. thick, 
1-celled, like a plum in colour, 1-seeded. 
KALAHARI Reoion: Transvaal; plains around Barberton, 2800 ft., Galpin, 
568! Mount Sheba, near Barberton, 3900 ft., Bolus, 7842 ! 
EAsterN ReGion: Zululand; White Umvolosi River, Gerrard, 1158 ! 
12. R. Simii (O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 196); a dense, 
leafy shrub; branches strigose-pilose when young, at length glab- 
rate ; branchlets patent, densely leafy; bark pallid ; leaves alternate, 
crowded, oblanceolate, obtusely acuminate or very obtusely pointed 
or nearly rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, thinly 
coriaceous, dark green and glabrescent above, somewhat paler and 
strigose-pilose at least along the midrib beneath, revolute along the 
margin, entire, 1-21 in. long, 1% in. broad ; petiole 3—y in. long, 
strigose-pilose or glabrate; fruiting peduncles axillary, solitary, 
more or less spreading or recurved, puberulous or glabrate, robust, 
