Huclea. | EBENACE# (Hiern). 471 
globose, + in. in diam., 1-celled, 1-seeded ; embryo curved and tend- 
ing to be incumbent. Hiern in Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. iti. 513; Hiern, 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 649; Parmentier in Ann, Univ, Lyon, vi. 
fase. ii. 78; Giirke in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. i. 159, 
jig. 85, A—C. Diospyros sp., Salt, Trav. Abyss. 14. 
Compare with this species Kiggelaria integrifolia, Jacq. Collect. ii. 
296, and Ic. Pl. Rar.ii. 19, t. 628, not of Eckl. §& Zeyh., nor of Drége. 
E. pubescens, Eckl. & Zeyh, ex Drege in Linnea, xx. 192 (without 
description). 
South AFRICA: without locality, Wallich! Verreaux ! Harvey! 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div.; Modder Fontein, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 
7971! Cederberg Range, 2000-5000 ft., Ecklon & Zeyher! Tulbagh Div.; 
mountains near Tulbagh Waterfall, 1500 {t., Bo/us, 5387 ! Humansdorp Div. ; 
between ‘wee Fontein and Essenbosch, Burchell, 4835! Uitenhage Div. ; by 
the Coega and Zwartkops Rivers, Ecklon §° Zeyher! Addo hills, Zeyher, 767 ! 
3361! Albany Div.; Bushmans River, Ecklon §- Zeyher, 778! near Grahams- 
town, Burchell, 8572! MacOwan, 244! Howisons Poort, Hutton! between 
Tea Fontein and Kurukuru River, Burchell, 3510! and without precise locality, 
Miss Bowker! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3980! British 
Kaffraria, Cooper, 44! 
Karanari Reeion: Basutoland; (doubtful) Cooper, 3488 ! 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; near Durban, Gerrard, 699! by the coast, Mrs. 
K. Saunders ! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
13. E. natalensis (Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 218); a shrub, 2-10 ft. 
high or more ; branches glabrate, dusky ; branchlets puberulous at 
the apex, leafy ; leaves alternate, obovate-oblong, rounded or obtuse 
at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, coriaceous, glabreseent, dark 
green and somewhat glossy above, paler or slightly reddish beneath, 
wavy or nearly plane on the narrowly revolute margin, not very 
conspicuously veined, 2-4 in. long, 1-14 in. broad ; petioles {—} in. 
long ; cymes axillary, 1-1 in. long, racemose or paniculate, 8- to 
many-flowered, shortly pubescent ; pedicels very short or about as 
long as the flowers, dilated upwards in fruit to the articulation with 
the consolidated tube of the calyx ; bracts small, deciduous ; flowers 
4-5-merous, 1—1 in. long, dicecious or hermaphrodite, yellow ; calyx 
deeply lobed, about or less than half the length of the corolla, 
shortly hairy in flower, glabrescent in fruit; lobes ovate or lanceolate, 
acute or pointed; corolla deeply lobed, nearly or quite glabrous ; 
segments at length spreading in a stellate manner, ovate-oblong, 
obtuse ; stamens 16; anthers more or less hispid ; filaments glabrous, 
short or very short; in the female and hermaphrodite flowers the 
ovary hirsute, subglobose, 4-celled; styles 2, slender, glabrous ; 
fruit globose, dusky, subglabrous, 1—} in, in diam., 1-celled ; seed 
solitary, globose, black, marked outside with three longitudinal lines ; 
albumen somewhat ruminated. Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. 
xii. 101. E. macrophylla, Drige, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 159, not 
133 nor 146. Royena macrophylla, E. Meyer ex Alph. DC. Prodr. 
Vili. 215, 218. ‘ 
KALAwARI Region; Transvaal; hill-sides near Barberton, 2200 ft., Galpin, 
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