462 EBENACE® (Hiern). [Huwelea. 
7); ashrub, 3-7 ft. high, or on mountain .sides 9-12 in. only, 
pubescent, and often ferruginous, but sometimes glabrescent; 
branches terete or subterete, alternate or subopposite, leafy, spreading 
at an angle of 40-60°; leaves alternate or subopposite, entire, oval, 
obtuse, and often subapiculate at the apex, somewhat wedge-shaped, 
rounded, or rarely cordate at the base, eoriaceous, 1-3 in. 
long, 3-1} in. broad; petiole ~,-1 in. long; flowers dicecious, 
scented, white. Male cymes racemose, axillary, pubescent, 3-9- 
flowered, usually drooping, 1-13 in. long; pedicels ,-1 in. long, 
the lower ones the longer ; braets lanceolate, deciduous ; calyx hemi- 
spherical, deeply 5—7-cleft, glabrous within, ;4,—;; in. long; lobes 
deltoid, rounded, ovate or lanceolate; corolla urceolate, 1—1 in. long, 
shortly 5-7-toothed ; stamens 20-30, more or less united at the base 
in pairs or otherwise, hairy ; ovary more or less abortive; styles 2, 
slender. Female cymes 3—5-flowered, axillary, pubescent or tomen- 
tose, ;'5—} in. long, usually drooping; pedicels short; bracts deci- 
duous ; calyx shorter than the corolla, 5—7-fid ; lobes ovate or deltoid ; 
corolla ellipsoid, 4 in. long, shortly 5—7-toothed ; staminodes 0; 
ovary ovoid-conical, 4-celled, hairy, ;4, in. long; ovules solitary ; 
styles 2, short, glabrous above, level with the corolla-mouth ; stigmas 
emarginate ; fruit usually solitary, oecasionally 2 or 3 together, 
tomentose, usually ferruginous, globular, 1—1 in. in diameter, edible, 
but not pleasant to the palate, l-celled, 1-seeded ; seed globular ; 
albumen somewhat ruminated. Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 216 under 
HE. dregeana; Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 92. 
Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 79; Drege, 
Zwei Pfl. Documente, 78, 87, 184. Royena polyandra, Linn. 
J. Suppl. Pl. 240; Poir. Encyel. vi. 822; Thunb. Prodr. 80, and 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 391; non Willd. Herb. n. 8366! Diplonema 
elliptica, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 42. Rymia polyandra, Endl. Cat. 
Hort. Acad. Vindob. ii. 123. E. elliptica and E. dregeana, Alph. 
DC. Prodr. viii. 216. EF. ferruginea, Bernh. ex Krauss in Flora, 
1844, 825. Brachycheila pubescens, Harv. ex Drige in Linnea, 
xx. 192. Huclea, 22, Droge, L.c. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Niven, 47! Alewander! Herb. Linneus ! 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Jackhals Vlei, Niven, 53! Malmesbury 
Div.; near the Berg River, Thunberg / Masson! Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, 
Drége! near Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon SY Zeyher! Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountain, 
Drege ; Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg and near the Baths, -Zeyher, 3362! near 
Hemel-en-Aarde, Zeyher, 3364! near Genadendal, 3030 ft., Schlechter, 9852! 
Hermanus, Galpin, 4321! Vogel Gat, 500 ft., Schlechter, 10402! Robertson 
Div. ; mountains near Montagu Bath, 2300 ft., Bolus, 6722! Riversdale Div. ; 
Garcias Pass, Byrchell, 6941! mountains near Riversdale, Schlechter, 1975! 
Uniondale Div. ; hill near Haarlem, Burchell, 4998! Humansdorp Div. ; be- 
tween the Gamtoos and Leeuwenbosch Rivers, Burchell, 4807! near Kromme 
River, Burchell, 4873! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Mountains, Zeyher, 727! 
3363 ! Winterhoek Mountains, Krauss! Witte Klip, JMacOwan, 1929! Alexandria 
Div. ; hills of Quaggas Flats, Zeyher, 727! 
This shrub is called ‘‘ Kersbosch” in Cape Colony, according to Thunberg. 
2. E. tomentosa (E. Meyer ex Drage, Cat. Pl. Exsicc. Afr. Austr. 
