460 EBENACEH (Hiern). [ Royena. 
site, cuneate-obovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, shortly petiolate, 
entire, tolerably firm, scarcely coriaceous, dull-green and _ finely 
pubescent above, canescent-velvety beneath, 14—2 in. long, $-14 in. 
broad ; petiole 1-1 in. long; cymes lax, 6—8-flowered ; bracts lan- 
ceolate-subulate, sessile, hairy, ,;-;', in. long; peduneles }—} in. 
long, slender, pubescent; flowers hermaphrodite, pentamerous ; braets 
lanceolate-subulate, sessile, hairy, j—;; in. long; calyx cup-shaped, 
velvety outside, + in. long, or rather more; lobes short, spathulate, 
and =4, in. broad; corolla twice as long as the calyx, finely hairy 
outside, glabrous within ; lobes ovate, obtuse, and about 4} in. broad ; 
tube about | in. long, or rather more, pilose both inside and out; 
stamens 5, inserted about the top of the corolla-tube, alternating 
with the lobes; filaments ,!; in. long; anthers linear, + in. long, 
obtuse at the apex ; ovary conical, hairy, 2-celled ; style } in. long, or 
rather more, bilobed at the apex ; lobes broadly oval and compressed ; 
ovules solitary in the cells. Schinz § JSunod in Mém. Herb. Boiss. 
x. 55. 
Eastern ReGion: Delagoa Bay, Junod, 412! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
Il. EUCLEA, Murr. 
Flowers dicecious, or rarely polygamous, 4—7-merous, arranged in 
axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx campanulate or cup-shaped, or 
small and shallow, usually 4- or 5-cleft, not acerescent in fruit. 
Corolla campanulate or hemispherical, or shortly oblong. Stamens 
in the male flowers 10-30, usually 12-20, either free, or in pairs or 
combined at the base of the filaments, in one or two rows inserted at 
the base of the corolla, or around the base of the ovary; anthers 
more or less hairy or glabrous, lanceolate or oblong, 2-celled, de- 
hiscing laterally; filaments short, usually slender and glabrous; 
ovary usually abortive or rudimentary ; styles 2 or 1. In the female 
flowers staminodes usually obsolete, sometimes 2—4 and glabrous ; 
anthers 0. Ovary ovoid or globular, hairy or glabrous, usually 4- 
(rarely 2-) celled; styles 2, or 1 and bifid, or rarely 3; stigmas. 
emarginate or bifid at the apex ; ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous. 
Fruit globular, or rarely ovoid-conical, usually 1-celled and 1-seeded ; 
pericarp fleshy; seeds globular, usually marked outside with three 
longitudinal impressed lines; albumen usually with an intrusion 
of the testa at the micropyle, distinctly ruminated in a few species ; 
embryo somewhat curved, tending to be incumbent ; radicle superior, 
about as long as the foliaceous eotyledons. 
Shrubs or small trees with alternate or opposite or rarely verticillate leaves, 
entire (except sometimes in E. ovata and E. coriacea), evergreen; periderm of 
the stem usually arising from the pericycle. 
Disrris. In addition to the following there are some Tropical African, and 
one Arabian, species. Diospyros suberifolia, Deeaisne, a species supposed to be 
Chilian, is Euclea suberifolia, Parment. in Ann. Univers. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 62, 
116, 142. : 
Euclea is one of the characteristic genera of the Karroo region. 
