Royena. | EBENACE® (Hiern). 459 
The wood is light and porous, and is used for fuel.—Dr. Pappe. 
15. R. parviflora (Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soe. xii. 88); a 
large shrub, climbing ; branches terete ; young parts and inflorescence 
softly, shortly and adpressedly pubescent ; leaves alternate, obovate, 
rounded or very shortly and abruptly narrowed to the emarginate 
apex, wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, or the smaller ones 
subcoriaceous, green, glabrous, and inconspicuously veined above, 
puberulous, somewhat paler and delicately veined beneath, 2-6} in. 
long, 1-84 in. broad; petiole 1—2 in. long; cymes axillary on the 
young shoots, 1—® in. long, 3-5-flowered; common peduncles 4—} in. 
long ; lateral pedicels 1—1 in. long, with a narrow braet at the base 
about as long as themselves; flowers hermaphrodite, small, creamy- 
white, articulated at the base to the pedicel, depressedly conical, and 
about + in. long and broad in the bud; calyx short, depressedly 
hemispherieal, 5-fid, flat at the base, puberulous outside; lobes 
deltoid ; corolla shortly pubescent outside except the overlapped sides 
of the lobes, glabrous within, deeply 5-lobed ; lobes rounded, and 
three times as long as the tube ; stamens 10, hairy, equal, inserted in 
one row at the base of the corolla; ovary depressedly conical, 
10-celled, shortly hairy; celis 1-ovuled ; style shortly hairy, 5-lobed 
at the apex. 
Eastern Reeion: Zululand; at Incansla, Gerrard, 2015! 
16. R. glandulosa (Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 89, 
t. 2); a large shrub, 8-10 ft. high ; branchlets patent or spreading ; 
the young shoots, peduncles and fruit glandular-hispid, with jointed 
hairs, subferruginous ; leaves alternate, oval or ovate, obtusely pointed 
at the apex, rounded or obtuse at the base, thinly coriaceous or 
firmly membranous, ciliate, somewhat pilose beneath, }~1 in. long, 
11 in. broad; petiole hirsute, about ,; in. long ; flowers hermaphro- 
dite, axillary on the young shoots, about } in. long, urceolate, 
articulated to the peduncle, yellow, usually tetramerous, rarely 
pentamerous ; peduncles spreading, 1-flowered, solitary, } in. long ; 
calyx deeply lobed, pilose outside, pubescent within, accrescent 
in fruit; lobes in flower lanceolate, acute, rather spreading, and 
about 3 in. long; corolla urceolate, deeply lobed, glabrous except on 
the minutely ciliate margin; lobes rounded and recurved above ; 
stamens usually 8, inserted in one row at the base of the corolla, 
short, equal, pilose, two of them opposite each lobe of the corolla ; 
filaments short; ovary 8-celled, hairy on most parts; style hairy, 
4-lobed and glabrous at the apex; fruit spheroidal, scarcely 3 in. 
long by 3 in. thick; fruiting calyx loosely enclosing the fruit or 
reflexed, deeply lobed, + in. long; lobes ovate-oblong, foliaceous, 
reddish, and with about 8 inconspicuous nerves. 
EAstERN RuGIon ; Natal; by the Tugela River, Gerrard, 1608! ~ 
17. R. pentandra (Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 61); a tree or 
shrub ; branches spiny, short, nodose; bark grey-white ; leaves oppo- 
