Euclea. | EBENACE® (Hiern). 469 
deltoid ; corolla campanulate, cleft half-way down or more, twice as 
long as the calyx, greenish or whitish-herbaceous ; lobes broadly 
ovate or rounded and apiculate, recurved at the apex; stamens 16 or 
20-22 in the male flowers, about 12 in the subhermaphrodite, none 
in the female ; filaments short, slender, glabrous; anthers lan- 
ceolate, shortly hairy ; ovary shortly conical or ovoid, hairy, 2—4- 
celled ; styles 2, or rarely 3, bifid at the apex, glabrous; stigmas 
trifid, but little exserted ; ovules usually 4; fruit globose, dusky 
or brown, about + in. in diam., at first pubescent, at length glabrate, 
edible, the flesh somewhat astringent; seed solitary, comparatively 
large, sometimes with vestiges of 2 or 3 abortive ovules. Alph. 
DC. Prodr. viii. 218; Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soe. xii. 
98; Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 78. Celastrus 
crispus, Thunb.in Hoffm. Phytogr. Blitt. (i.) 23, and in Roemer, 
Archiv. Botanik, iii. 429; DC. Prodr. ii.5; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult, 217. H. rufescens, E. Meyer ex Drége, Cat. Pl. Exsice. 
Ajr.-Austr. 7, and ex Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 57, 
130, 184, not 62. Royena rufescens, EH. Meyer ex Drige, Zwei 
Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 154, 217. E. ovata, B. hispida, Alph. 
DU. Prodr, viii, 218. E. crispa, Giirke in Engl. & Prantl, Pflan- 
zenfam. iv. i. 158. EH. ovata, forma undulata, Marloth in Engl. 
Jahrb. x. 243. 
Soutnu Arrica: without locality, Thunberg. 
Coast Reeion : Uitenhage Div.; near the mouth of the Zwartkops River, 
below 500 ft., Drége. 
Centrat Reeion: Richmond Div.; Winterveld, near Limoen Fontein and 
Table Mountain, 3000-4000 ft., Drege! Graaff Reinet Div.; mountains near 
Graaff Reinet, 3500-3700 ft., Burchell, 2920! Bolus, 572! and in Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 1812! Somerset Div.; upper part of Bruintjes Hoogte, Burcheli, 
8058-1! 3058-2! 3102! 
Kananart Reetion: Griqualand West, Hay Div. ; between Griqua Town and 
Spuigslang Foutein, Burchell, 1706! Bechuanaland; near the sources of 
Kuruman River, and between them and Kosi Fontein, Burchell, 2542! 2487/2! 
2487/7! Orange River Colony; between Kimberley and Boshof, 4200 ft., 
Marloth, 795. Bloemfontein, Kuntze, ‘Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 
3! 
EasteRN ReGion: Pondoland or Natal; between Umtentu River and 
Umzimkulu River, below 500 ft., Drége ! 
E. ovata, y, glabra, Alph. DC., l.c., is better referred to E. lanceolata, E. 
Meyer ; it was founded on E. rufescens, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 
62, not 57; 180. 
The species varies considerably in the shape of its leaves and in the amount 
of its pubescence ; according to Dr. Bolus, the plant becomes more glabrous as 
the season advances and the fruit ripens. This, as well as the other species of 
the genus which bear edible fruits, is called ‘‘ Guarri” by the Hottentots. 
11. E. Divinorum (Hiern in Trans, Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 99) ; 
a dense shrub, or small tree, nearly glabrous, somewhat glaucous ; 
branches rather slender ; branchlets leafy ; leaves opposite or sub- 
Opposite, narrowly elliptic, obtusely narrowed at the apex, wedge- 
