Euclea.] | EBENACE® (Hiern). 463 
7); a shrub, about 4 ft. high or more; bark smooth, dusky ; branches 
alternate, spreading, tomentose or glabrate ; branchlets erowded, ashy- 
tomentose or puberulous, erect-patent, rigid, sometimes slightly 
flexuous, leafy ; leaves alternate or subopposite, oval or elliptie or 
obovate, rounded or obtusely narrowed or apiculate at the apex, 
rounded or wedge-shaped at the base, erect-patent, coriaceous, rigid, 
more or less tomentellous at least beneath, entire, flat, but 
narrowly revolute alung the margin, 3-21 in. long, 8-14 in. broad; 
petiole ,,-1 in. long, tomentellous; flowers dicecious, axillary. 
Male racemes 5-8-flowered, very short, or much shorter than 
the leaves; flowers tetramerous or pentamerous, subsessile, or on 
short recurving pedicels, bracteolate; bracteoles concave, pubescent 
on the back, glabrous on the face, often imbricate, deciduous, ,';—} in. 
long, ;—} in. broad; calyx hirsute-tomentellous outside, glabrous 
and shining within, deeply lobed, 1; in. long; lobes ovate or ovate- 
deltoid ; corolla urceolate, 1—1 in. long, cleft less than half-way down, 
more or less hairy outside at least above, glabrous within ; lobes 
rounded ; stamens 16—18, free, or somewhat connate at the base, 
qis-is in. long ; filaments unequal, {',-;); in. long, glabrous; anthers 
very sparingly setulose, ,4,-3'5 in. long, sometimes in pairs; ovary 
rudimentary, small, ovoid-conical, clotbed with whitish hairs ; styles 
2, short, glabrous. Female racemes very dense and short, one- or 
few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves, pendulous ; flowers 
5—7-merous, =} in. long, subsessile, or on pedicels of ;;—;'; in. 
long; bracteoles rounded or apiculate, short, broad, deciduous or 
imbricate ; calyx tomentellous, deeply lobed, } in. long ; segments 
ovate-acute or deltoid; corolla urceolate or campanulate, cleft less 
than half-way down, 1— in, long; tube tomentellous outside, glabrous 
within; lobes rounded, tomentellous on both sides ; staminodes 0; 
ovary shortly ovoid-conical, tomentellous, ;5 in. long, 4-celled ; 
Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 81. EH. kraussiana, 
Bernh. ex Krauss in Flora, 1844, 824. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg ! Ecklon §* Zeyher! 
Coast RecGion: Clanwilliam Div.; on send-hills near the Olifants River, 
1000-1500 ft., Drége ! Blaauw Berg, 1000-2600 ft., Drége. Piquetberg Div. ; 
flats between Twenty-four Rivers and Pikeniers Kloof, below 500 ft., Drége! 
Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartland, Masson! hills near Moorreesburg, 600 ft., Bolus, 
9972! Tulbagh Div. ; between Kasteels Kloof and New Kloof, Burchell, 987! 
Cape Div. ; places at the foot of Koe Berg and Tiger Berg, Krauss, 1788 ! 
WESTERN REGION: Little Namaqualand; Modderfontein (Garies), 1500-— 
2000 ft., Drége, Whitehead ! Ezels Fonteiu, Whitehead / near Spektakel, 3500 ft., 
Bolus, 9508! Zt 
Called by the Boers ‘‘ Kersboschjes ”” and “ Jakhalsbosch.”’ 
8. E. coriacea (Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 216); a shrub; branches 
dense, strong, dusky-ashy ; branchlets slightly pubescent ; leaves alter- 
