464 EBENACE® (Hiern). | Huclea, 
nate, strongly wavy, entire or obseurely crenulate, ovate, more or less 
acute or apiculate at the apex, broad and subcordate at the base, 
coriaceous, pubescent, or nearly glabrescent, 1-2 in. long, 3-1} in. 
broad ; veins inconspicuous and pallid above, dully marked beneath ; 
petiole ranging up to 1 in. long; flowers dicecious; bracts ovate, 
small, deciduous. Male cymes 1—5-flowered, rather dense, much 
shorter than the leaves ; pedicels about as long as the flowers, 3—} in. 
long; calyx deeply 5- or 6-fid ; lobes ovate, acute ; corolla urceolate, 
four times the length of the calyx, shortly 5- or 6-lobed at the apex ; 
stamens 16-22, sometimes in pairs ; anthers linear-lanceolate, silky at 
the back; ovary rudimentary. Female cymes 3-—7-flowered, very 
short; pedicels ranging up to +5 in. long; fruiting ealyx 5- or 6-fid, 
nearly flat, stellate, + in. in diam.; lobes ovate, or lanceolate and 
acute; fruit globose, 1-2 in, in diam., subglabrate or minutely 
puberulous, 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed subglobose, about } in. in 
diam., marked outside with impressed curved lines; albumen 
somewhat ruminated. Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 94, 
289. Euclea n. 9140, H. Meyer ex Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 
48, 184. Royena n. 9140, Drige ex Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 216. 
Coast Recion: Queenstown Div.; Table Mountain, 6000-7000 ft., Drége, 
9140! 
CentraL Recion: Graaff Reinet Div. ; Oude Berg, near Graaff Reinet, 
4500 ft., Bolus, 638! 
4, E. acutifolia (E. Meyer ex Droge, Cat. Pl. Exsice. Afr. Austr. 
7); ashrub; branches lax, glabrous or glabrescent; leaves alternate 
or subopposite, entire, oblong-lanceolate, acute and apiculate at the 
apex, wedge-shaped at the base, erect or ascending, coriaceous, some- 
times subfaleate, glabrous, subglaucescent beneath, 11-2} in. long, 
about 1—1 in. broad ; nerves not very distinctly marked ; petiole 3'5—-$ 
in. long; flowers dicecious. Male fluwers unknown. Female cymes 
racemose, } in. long, 3—7-flowered; pedicels shortly hairy, about 
Lin. long; flowers 2 in. long, pubescent, 5-7-merous ; calyx short, 
deeply cleft ; corolla cylindrical-urceolate, shortly lobed at the apex ; 
ovary densely pilose ; styles 2, erect, glabrous ; stigmas dilated ; fruit 
globose, glabrescent, finely wrinkled, dusky, }—} in. in diam. ; fruiting 
calyx 2 in. in diam., adpressed to the base of the fruit, glabrescent ; 
seed about 1 in. in diam., dusky, the surface unequally divided by . 
three impressed lines; albumen slightly ruminated. Drige, Zwei 
Pfl. Doewmente, 104, 109, 184; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 217 ; Hiern 
in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 94. 
Coast Recion : Clanwilliam Div.; hills between Lange Valley and Olifants 
River, 1000-1500 ft., Drége! Piquetberg Div.; on the flats between Twenty- 
four River und Pikeniers Kloof, below 500 ft., Drége ! Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh 
(New) Kloof, &e., Ecklon & Zeyher ! Humansdorp and Uitenhage Divs. ; between 
Kromme River and Uitenhage, Ecklon §° Zeyher ! 
5, E. lancea (Thunb. Prodr. 85) ; a glabrous or subglabrous shrub, 
erect, 3-8 ft. high; branches densely intricate, alternate, terete, 
