474 EBENACE® (Hiern). [| Huclea. 
ones; pedicels ;4,-} in. long; calyx hemispherical, cleft half-way 
down ; lobes ovate, acute ; corolla deeply lobed ; lobes not reflexed ; 
staminodes 2-4, glabrous; ovary usually hairy, 4-celled; styles 2; 
ovules solitary in the cells; fruit globular, glabrescent or glabrous, 
black, l-celled, 1-seeded, } in.indiam. Jacg. Fragm.t. 1, f.5, t. 68, 
f.3; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 401; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 219; 
Chamisso in Linnea, vi. 350, 351; Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. 
Soc. xii. 104; Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fasc. ii. 75; 
Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 112, 113, 184; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 
824; not of L’Hérit; Herb. Willd. n. 18478; Burchell, Trav. S. 
Afr. i. 29 note, 62 note-—Padus foliis subrotundis, fructu racemoso, 
Burm, Afr. 238, t. 84, f. 1. 
Var. 8, Burchellii (Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 105); a tree, 
18 ft. high; trunk erect; branches ascending, dense; bark entire, turning 
whitish ; leaves oblong-obovate ; staminodes 0-4, inserted on the base of the 
corolla or around the base of the ovary; ovary globose, glabrous; styles 2 or 3, 
short ; young fruit purple. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Oldenburg! Nelson! Banks! Siekmann! 
Alewander ! Boivin! 
Coast Reaion : Piquetberg Div.; St. Helena Bay, Hove! Malmesbury Div. ; 
Groene Kloof (Mamre), Drége ! Cape Div. ; Camps Bay, Burchell, 397! Harvey ! 
Table Mountain and other places around Cape Town, Thunberg! Burchell, 807! 
Ecklon! Krauss, MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1499! Simons Bay, Wright! 
Simons Town, Meiklejohn! Durbanville, Schlechter, 7828! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
near Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8295! near Somerset West, Drége! Fish Hoek, 
Ecklon. Bredasdorp Div.; near Cape Agulhas, Hcklon, Mier Kraal, Schlechter, 
10500! 10501! Swellendam Div. ; between the Breede and Duivenhoek Rivers, 
Ecklon, and without precise locality, Bowie! Uitenhage Div.; near the mouth of 
the Coega River, Zeyher, 574! Grass Ridge, Zeyher, 3356! Bathurst Div. ; near 
Port Alfred, Burchell, 3806! Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 1511 ! 
CENTRAL Reaion: VaR. 8: Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3219! 
WESTERN ReEGIon: Little Namaqualand; Hondeklip Bay, Whitehead ! 
The wood is hard and heavy, and is employed by wheelwrights and turners, and 
serves very well for wooden screws; but it is chiefly used as fuel (Pappe, Silva 
Capensis, 21). 
E. racemosa, L’ Hérit. Sert. Angl. 82, is perhaps Kiggelaria dregeana, Turez., 
var. obtusa, Harv, Fl. Cap. i. 71. 
17. E. undulata (Thunb. Nova Gen. Pl. 85); a glabrous shrub 
of 1-10 ft. high or a tree of moderate size up to 30 ft. high, densely 
branched ; branches erect or ascending, terete, alternate or opposite ; 
branchlets more or less spreading, opposite or alternate, leafy, 
minutely glandular towards the apex; bark whitish-grey, somewhat 
rough ; leaves opposite and alternate, evergreen, obovate or oblanceo- 
late, rounded or obtusely narrowed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the 
base, coriaceous, strongly wavy along the margin or when narrow 
nearly flat, entire, green above, pallid beneath, glabrous, minutely 
gland-dotted, 34-11 in. long, 4—% in. broad, narrower in the 
variety ; lateral veins not very conspicuous, numerous; petioles 
ess in. long; racemes axillary; bracts deciduous, occasionally 
large and foliaceous ; flowers dicecious, tetramerous. Male flowers 
hemispherical, nearly glabrous, 4; in. long; racemes lax, 5-7- 
flowered, 2-4 in. long; pedicels slender, ;5—1 in. long; calyx 
