Royena.| EBENACE® (Hiern). 457 
thickened towards the apex, bracteate, dusky, 2-1 in. long; bracts 
alternate, deciduous; fruit solitary, globose, shortly velvety and 
sparingly pilose with deciduous hairs, about 4 in. in diam.; fruiting 
calyx accrescent, deeply 5-lobed; tube about } in. in diam., puberu- 
lous outside ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, 9—13-nerved, 
obtuse, glabrate or puberulous, erect, 3-1 in. long, 2—} in. broad ; 
seeds 1—1 in. long, 1-1 in. broad, dusky. 
Coast ReGion: King Williamstown Div. ; Perie Bush, 2009 ft., Kuntze! 
Eastern Region: Pondoland, Bachmann, 1016; Natal; Tugela River, 
Gerrard, 1611! 
R. Simii should be compared with R. pubescens, Edwards, Bot. Reg. t. 500, 
vic Willd. ; also with the following specimens in fruit :— 
Coast Recion: Knysna Div.; near Knysna, Burchell, 5490! near the 
Knysna River Ford, Burchell, 5529! Fort Beaufort Div., Cooper, 418 ! 
The ‘‘ Kraai beesies”’ of the Kaffirs. 
The R. pubescens mentioned by Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 24, note, may be 
this species ; it is 745! of his Catalogue, and was obtained in the Government 
garden at Cape Town. Burchell in his notes described it as a tree, 10 ft. 
high, with greenish-yellowish flowers, and with the fruit as in Bot. Reg. 
13. R. Guerkei (0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 196) ; a shrub, 
6-10 ft. high; branches numerous, dusky, puberulous or glabrate, 
terete ; branchlets hirsute, alternate, more or less spreading, densely 
leafy; leaves alternate, elliptic-oblanceolate, rounded, obtuse or 
apiculate at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, sparingly hirsute 
and rugose with impressed reticulation above, hirsute especially on 
the raised reticulation beneath, thinly coriaceous, narrowly revolute 
along the margin, entire, 1-22 in. long, }-* in. broad; petiole 
hirsute, ;',—1 in. long; fruiting peduncles axillary on the branch- 
lets, solitary, shortly hirsute, more or less spreading or recurving, 
i—} in. long, marked with the scars of 2 or 3 alternate fallen bracts ; 
fruiting calyx puberulous and sparingly hirsute, divided nearly to 
the base ; segments lanceolate, strongly 3-nerved, dusky, § in. long, 
2in. broad; fruit solitary, spheroidal, puberulous, rather more than 
2 in. long, scarcely 1 in, in diam. ; seeds 4, reddish-brown, minutely 
wrinkled, }—3 in. long, } in. broad. 
Eastern ReGion: Natal; Charlestown, 6000 ft., Kuntze! 
14. R. glabra (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 397); an evergreen shrub, 
2-6 ft. high, very apt to send up suckers from the roots; stem erect, 
ranging up to 6 in. thick, terete, much branched; bark thin, 
glabrous, grey or purplish, smooth; branches scattered, erect or 
erect-patent, virgate; branchlets comparatively slender, densely 
leafy; young parts pilose; leaves alternate, narrowly elliptic, 
usually narrowed at both ends, entire, thinly coriaceous, rigid, flat, 
glossy above, at length glabrous, subsessile, myrtle-like, 3-1 
in. long, 3-1 in. broad; flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, 
