472 EBENACE® (Hiern). [ Huclea, 
EASTERN Recion: Natal; woods near Durban, Drége ! Wood, 363! on the 
Bluff, Durban Bay, Cooper, 2794! Groen Berg, Wood, 953! The Creek, Wood, 
1014! and without precise locality, Peddie ! Cooper, 1253! 2695! Gueinzius ! 
Williamson! Gerrard, 92! Delagoa Bay, Junod, 460. Between Lourengo 
Marques and Matolla, Bolus, 7845! 7846! 
It is called ‘‘ Nhlangulane ” at Delagoa Bay (Schinz and Junod in Mém., Herb. 
Boiss. x. 55). 
14. EF. macrophylla (E. Meyer ex Drége, Cat. Pl. Exsicc. Afr. 
Austr. 7) ; a glabrous or subglabrous shrub or low tree of 15 ft.; 
branches nodose, rarely somewhat pubescent; branchlets leafy, often 
verticillate three together, bark grey, smooth; leaves opposite or 
verticillate three together, obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, rounded 
at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, rigidly coriaceous, dark green 
and glossy or reddish-brown above, paler and dull beneath, wavy or 
flat along the margin, entire, 11-4 in. long, -1} in. broad; lateral 
veins delicate ; petioles »j-1 in. long; racemes axillary, 5-15- 
flowered, 3-1} in. long; pedicels 4:1 in. long, often opposite ; 
flowers dicecious, tetramerous. Male flowers about 1 in. long; 
calyx cleft half-way down, 1, in. in diam.; lobes deltoid and 
pointed; corolla urceolate or campanulate, cleft half-way down, 
sparingly pilose outside or subglabrous; lobes obtuse and mucronate ; 
stamens 4-16; anthers subsessile, hairy towards the apex; ovary 
rudimentary. Female flowers ~,-1 in. long; calyx about =; in, 
long, cleft nearly half-way down; lobes shortly deltoid, pointed, 
subglabrous; corolla urceolate, cleft about half-way down, sub- 
glabrous; lobes rounded ; staminodes 0; ovary glabrous, usually 4- 
(rarely 6-) celled, often only 2-celled in the upper part, rounded or 
obtusely conical ; cells l-ovuled ; styles 2 or rarely 3, as long as the 
ovary or shorter, bifid at the apex; stigmas obtuse ; fruit slightly 
apiculate, about + in, in diam., minutely glandular. Alph. DC. 
Prodr, viii. 218 ; Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 133, 146, 
not 159 ; Drege, Cat. Siidafr. Pf. 9 ; Hiern in Trans, Cambr. Phil. 
Soc, xii. 102 ; Parmentier in Ann. Univers. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 75; 
Krauss in Flora, 1844, 824, 
South Arrica: without locality, Masson ! 
Coast Rreion: Humansdorp Div. ; Zitzikamma Forest, Krauss, 1765. Div. ? 
MacOwan, 51? Uitenhage Div.; in woods at Enon, Drége! Albany Diy.; 
Grahamstown, Atherstone, 461! 
KatawaRi Ree@ion: ‘Transvaal; Kaap Valley, near Barberton, 2000 ft., 
Galpin, 1329! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei ; between Gekau (Geua) River and Bashee 
River, 1000-2000 ft., Drége! Natal; Tugela River, Gerrard, 1604! (doubtful), 
near Durban, McKen, 673! Pondoland; valleys between Umtata River and St. 
Johns River, 1000-2000 ft., Drége. 
The last station is implied by Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 184, 
letter c; but the name of the species does not occur among those mentioned 
under the station on the place referred to by Drége [p. 150]. 
According to a note of Atherstone the ovary has frequently only two cells at 
the upper part in consequence of the dissepiments being incomplete. 
15, E. daphnoides (Hiern in Trans, Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 102) ; 
