Euclea.| EBENACES (Hiern). 467 
glabrous, 3-5-flowered ; pedicels short, or very short; eommon 
peduncle }—{ in. long, arising from the upper axils, often at length 
recurved ; flowers ;",—;'; in. long, tetramerous or pentamerous; calyx 
subhemispherical, 5,5 in. long, ;!; in. in diam., ciliolate, otherwise 
nearly glabrous, shortly toothed ; corolla about 5, in. long, tubular- 
urceolate, nearly glabrous, but with short scattered pallid hairs out- 
side, glabrous within, shortly lobed; lobes rounded; staminodes 0; 
ovary subglobose, hairy ; ovules 4; style thick, glabrous, as long as 
the ovary, 4-cleft, deciduous. Male flowers and fruit not seen. 
Katauart Reaion: Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Rustplaats Farm, Wilms, 
916! 
Eastern Reeion: Natal; between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 
1923! (doubtful). 
9. E. lanceolata (E. Meyer ex Droge, Cat. Pl. Exsice. Afr. Austr. 
7); an evergreen shrub, 1 ft. high and upwards, or a tree reaching 
20-25 ft., with a trunk 10-15 in. in diam. ; branches rigid, opposite or 
alternate, or occasionally ternate or quaternate, sometimes virgate or 
tortuous, or rarely thorny, pubescent or glabrescent or lepidote, some- 
times resinous, leafy ; leaves opposite or alternate, lanceolate or ovate 
or narrowly oval, obtuse or subacute at the apex, obtuse or narrowed 
at the base, pubescent or glabrous and glossy, often lepidote when 
young, coriaceous, wavy or nearly flat, entire, sometimes glaucescent, 
usually paler beneath, 1-3 in. long, 5-143; in. broad, occasionally 
smaller, those near the base of the stem sometimes two or three 
times broader than the upper; petiole ;—1 in. long; cymes 
axillary, racemose; bracts small or foliaceous; flowers dicecious, 
white, or whitish-reddish or yellowish. Male racemes 1-1 in. 
long, 3-10-flowered ; pedicels 4,8, in. long; flowers tetramerous 
or occasionally pentamerous, 1—? in. long; calyx broadly campanulate, 
cleft about half-way down, ;!;-;!; in. long; lobes deltoid; corolla 
campanulate, deeply cléft, somewhat pubescent outside, ;%,—,%; in. 
long; lobes rather spreading, ovate or oval; stamens usually about 
16, rarely 8-10, inserted mostly in pairs at or near the base of the 
corolla, 5-3 in. long; filaments glabrous, ;),—;); in. long; anthers 
lanceolate, pilose towards the apex, turgid, —s'5 in. long; ovary 
rudimentary, hirsute ; styles 2, glabrous. Female racemes 1—} in. 
long, 3-7-flowered ; pedicels j,— > in. long ; flowers tetramerous or 
pentamerous, whitish-reddish or whitish, about 4 in. long; pedicels 
20-15 in, long, the lateral opposite; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 
shortly pubescent, about 1; in. long ; calyx cleft about half-way 
down, 5; in. long, not accrescent, pubescent ; lobes deltoid ; corolla 
deeply cleft ; staminodes 0; ovary subglobose, clothed with short 
erect hairs, 4-celled ; styles 2, glabrous; fruit pisiform, pubescent or 
glabrate, reddish or dark-purple or yellowish, edible, 1-celled, +—+ in. 
in diam., or rather larger ; seed solitary, globose ; testa intruded some 
distance into the albumen, blackish. Drege, Cat. Sidafr. Pf. 9, 
and Zwei Pfl. Documente, 48, 124, 131, 134, 142, 145,184; Alph. 
De. Prodr. viii. 218; Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 97, 
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