470 EBENACEZ (Hiern). | Huclea. 
shaped at the base, coriaceous, green-glaucescent above, paler or 
slightly reddish and minutely glandular-pulverulent beneath, wavy 
on the margin, entire, inconspicuously veined, 13-3 in. long, 2—4 in. 
broad; petioles 1—1 in. long; flowers dicecious, white. Male cymes 
axillary, puberulous, 1—2 in. long, 7—16-flowered, sessile or sub- 
sessile, in somewhat compound or simple racemes ; pedicels ;};—} in. 
long, spreading, mostly opposite and decussate; bracts very short, 
caducous; flowers spheroidal in the bud, + in. long, 2 in. thick, 
hemispherical when expanded, 4—5-merous; calyx short, shortly 
lobed, =}; in. in diam., minutely glandular outside ; lobes depressedly 
ovate-triangular ; corolla cleft more than half-way down, shortly and 
sparingly hairy outside, glabrous or subglabrous within; stamens 
12-17, inserted at the base of the corolla singly, or some in pairs, 
qig-a's in. long; anthers somewhat hairy; filaments short, or very 
short, glabrous ; ovary rudimentary, consisting of a bunch of pallid 
hairs. Female flowers tetramerous, 1, in. long ; calyx hemispherical, 
sig in. in diam.; corolla campanulate, deeply lobed, slightly hairy 
outside ; ovary hairy. Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 513. 
KALAHARI ReGion: Transvaal; by the Crocodile River, near Lauws Creek, 
1400 ft., Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1311! 
Eastern ReGion: Delagoa Bay, Forbes, 56! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
12. E. multiflora (Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 100, 
t. 3); ashrub or small tree, with the habit of a laurel and the 
branches usually subferruginously pubescent, sometimes subglabrous, 
or even subglaucous, leafy, 2-15 ft. high; leaves alternate or rarely 
subopposite, oval, elliptie or oblong, usually rounded or obtusely 
narrowed at the apex, but sometimes apiculate, narrowed or rounded 
at the base, coriaceous, wavy or flat at the narrowly revolute 
margins, entire, evergreen, 1-4 in. long, 1-12 in. broad; vena- 
tion not very conspicuous ; petioles 1—1 in, long ; flowers usually dia- 
eious, occasionally hermaphrodite, 4—6-merous, greenish or sulphur- 
yellow, 1—1 in. long; cymes axillary, usually paniculate, 10—30- 
flowered, 1-12 in. long, pubescent, subsessile ; pedicels spreading or 
drooping, shorter than or as long as the flowers ; bracts small, pointed, 
deciduous ; calyx campanulate or hemispherical, ;';-7'5 in. long, 
pubescent, cleft about half-way down; lobes ovate or deltoid, 
obtuse ; corolla about twice as long as the calyx, deeply lobed ; 
lobes oval or oblong, glabrous, or with a few hairs; stamens 
erect, shorter than the corolla, four times as many as the corolla- 
lobes in the male or hermaphrodite flowers, none in the female ; 
anthers pallid, dehiseing on each side from the apex, subglabrous or 
hairy above ; filaments glabrous, short, and inserted in pairs at the 
base of the corolla or around the ovary; ovary in the male flowers 
abortive, in the female or hermaphrodite flowers globose, densely 
hairy, 2- or 4-celled; styles 2, short, rather thick, spreading, glabrous 
or with a few hairs ; stigmas obtuse ; ovules solitary ; fruit at first 
usually ferruginously pubescent, subsequently dusky and glabrate, 
