Euclea.| EBENACES (Hiern). 473 
a glabrous, usually shining shrub of 2—7 ft. or more, or a low tree, 
sometimes thorny; branches ashy; branchlets numerous, alternate, 
opposite or subvertieillate, leafy; bark white; leaves alternate, 
opposite or verticillate three together, linear- or oblanceolate-oblong, 
rounded or obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the subsessile thickly 
articulate base, often suberect, rigidiy coriaceous, flat or somewhat 
wavy on the narrowly revolute margin, entire, 1-3 in. long, 2—} in. 
broad ; racemes axillary, shorter than the leaves, 2-11 in. long, 
spreading or drooping, 9-21-flowered; flowers dioecious or sub- 
hermaphrodite, whitish or yellowish ; pedicels ,);—1 in. long. Male 
fiowers tetramerous, nearly glabrous, 3 in. long; calyx cleft half-way 
down, short; corolla campanulate, cleft nearly half-way down; 
lobes rounded, erect; stamens 12-16, glabrous below; ovary rudi- 
mentary, glabrous. Female flowers 4—5-merous, numerous, glabrous, 
7's in. long; calyx {5 in. long, cleft half-way down; corolla openly 
campanulate, =’; in. long, cleft nearly half-way down ; lobes obtuse ; 
staminodes 0 or 4 or 8, glabrous, very short ; ovary ovoid, glabrous, ,}- 
in. long, 4—6-celled; styles 2 or 3, .j; in. long, thiek ; stigmas bilobed 
at the apex, exserted, reddish, truncate, furrowed along the inner 
side ; ovules or seeds solitary ; fruit globose, 1 in. in diam., dusky, 
glabrous, 1-eelled ; seed solitary ; fruiting calyx small or minute ; 
albumen not ruminated, but the testa is introverted at the apex of 
the seed. 
Coast Rreeion: Swellendam Div. ; without precise locality, Bowie ! Humans- 
dorp Div.; mountains near Wagenbooms River, in Lange Kloof, Burchell, 
4909! Uitenhage Div.; Uitenhage, Coega River and Winterhoek Mountains, 
oat: § Zeyher, 28! Port Elizabeth Div.; by the Bankens River, Burchell, 
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Eastern ReGion: Natal; ‘‘Thorns” near Mooi River, 3000-4000 ft., 
Wood, 4471! 5327! Upper Tugela River, Gerrard, 1506! 1606! 
16. E. racemosa (Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. 13,747); an evergreen densely 
branched glabrous and shining shrub, usually about 6-9 ft. high with 
the main stem 5-6 in. in diam., sometimes a small tree of 18 ft.; 
bark usually grey, smooth ; branchlets often reddish, angular, ascend- 
ing, leafy; leaves alternate, subopposite or opposite, obovate or 
oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped or obtusely 
narrowed at the base, rigidly coriaceous, green above, pale beneath, 
not wavy on the revolute margin, entire, 1—21 in. long, }—1+ in. 
broad; venation slightly prominent on both surfaces; petioles 
z0-35 im. long; racemes 3-1} in. long, axillary, at length 
drooping, 4-—13-flowered ; flowers diccious, white, drooping. 
Male flowers 4- (or rarely 5-6-) merous, campanulate, glabrous, 
yo-+ in. long; pedicels =4-1 in. long; calyx short, cleft half- 
way down ; lobes deltoid ; corolla deeply lobed ; lobes oval, obtuse 
or subacute, spreading or erect; stamens 12-18, in two rows; 
filaments ~—,1; in. long; anthers lanceolate, thick, »j;—), in. 
long, erect, with a few hairs or glabrous; pollen white; ovary 
rudimentary; styles 2, erect, terete, white. Female flowers tetra- 
merous oy rarely pentamerous, ovoid, rather smaller than the male 
