458 eBENACEa® (Hiern). [.Royena. 
nodding, whitish, numerous, 1-} in. long; peduncles axillary, 
slender, hairy, arching, 1-85-flowered, usually about as long as 
the leaves; pedicels as long as or shorter than the common 
peduncle; bracts lanceolate; calyx 5-partite, hairy, persistent, 
11 in, long, slightly accrescent in fruit; segments lanceolate or 
Janceolate-subulate, acute, erect; corolla urceolate-campanulate, 
glabrous, 5-cleft nearly to the middle; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
spreading or recurved; tube pentagonal; stamens usually 10, 
bearded, oblong, about ,'; in. long, not always fertile; filaments 
very short; glands about the base of the ovary very small; 
ovary subglobose or ovoid-conical, nearly glabrous, 4-celled; style 
bilobed, hairy below, together with the ovary about } in. long; 
stigmas obtuse, emarginate ; fruit globose or oblong, thinly glandular- 
pubescent, purple or reddish, 1—2 in. long; fruiting calyx subglabrate, 
usually reflexed, 1-1 in. long; seed usually solitary, spheroidal, 
black. Bery. Pl. Cap. 144; Thunb. Prodr. 80, and Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 390; Poir. Eneyel. vi. 322; Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. Martyn, 
ii, part ii. n. 4; Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 15, 19, 62, 124; Alph. 
DC. Prodr. viii. 214; Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 88; 
Parmentier in Ann. Univers. Lyon, vi. fasc. ii. 70; Drege, Zwei Pf. 
Documente, 70, 71; 87, 101, 217; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 824. 
Vaccinium pensylvanica, Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. viii. n. 3.  V. pensyl- 
vanicum, Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. ix. R. myrtifolia, Cels, Cat. 1817, 33 ; 
Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 1, 705, and ed. 2, ii. 475; Alph. DC. Lc. 
215. R. falcata, E. Meyer ex Drige, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 115, 217 ; 
Alph. DC., le. 211. R. hirsuta, Sieber, Fl, Cap. Exsicc. n. 94 ; not 
of Linn., nor of Jacq., nor of Ecklon. Vitis Idea ethiopica Myrtinis 
foliis flosculis dependentibus, Plukn. Almag. 391, and Phytogr. t. 321, 
jig. 4. Vitis Idea exthiopica Buxi minoris folio floribus albis, 
Commel. Hort, Amstelod. i. 125, t. 65. Vitis Idea foliis. angustis- 
simis longis alternis, Linn, in Herb. Hort. Clif, % Buaus africana 
folio oblongiort non serrato, Linn. in Herb. Gronov. Vitis Idxa 
ethiopica seu africana Buxi minoris folio floribus albidis, J. Burm. 
Oat. alt. Pl. Afric. 33. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Oldenburg, 495! Masson! Forster! Sieber, 
94! Niven, 48! Herb. Linneus ! 
Coast Region: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Gift Berg, 1500-2500 ft., Drege! 
Clanwilliam Div. ; Clanwilliam, Mader, 74! Piquetberg Div.; Verloren Valley, 
Thunberg! Tulbagh Div.; near New Kloof, 1000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Norm. 
Aust.-Afr., 588! Worcester Div.; Brand Valley, within the influence of the 
Hot-spring, Burchell. Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drége, Bolus, 2973! flats 
near the Berg River, Drége! Paarl, Elliot! Cape Div. ; Table mountain and 
other places around Cape Town, Burchell, 2! 808! Ecklon, 699! Zeyher! Mace- 
Gillivray, 610! Krauss! Rehmann, 778! Wolley Dod, 2008! Caledon Div. ; 
mountains near Genadendal, Drége ! Robertson Div. ; Kogmans Kloof, Kuntze; 
Swellendam Diy.; by the Buffeljagts River, Burchell, 7288! Zeyher, 3349b ; 
near Grootvaders Bosch, Zeyher, 3349a! Swellendam, Kuntze; Riversdale Div. ; 
various localities, Burchell, 6788 ! 7186! 7208! George Div.; various localities, 
Burchell, 5093! 5784! Bowie! Montagu Pass, Reimann, 157! 158! Knysna 
Div. ; between Plettenbergs Bay and Knysna, Burchell, 5367 ! ‘ 
CentRAL ReGion: Calvinia Div.; Bokkeveld, near Groene River and Water- 
val River, 2500-3000 ft., Drége ! 
