Euclea.| EBENACEH (Hiern). 475 
broadly cup-shaped, short, cleft half-way down; lobes deltoid and 
pointed ; corolla cleft more than half-way down; lobes oval; stamens 
10-15, mostly in pairs ; filaments slender, ;1,—3; in. long; anthers 
oblong or obovate-oblong, apiculate, 4,—1; in. long, with a few hairs 
towards the apex ; ovary rudimentary, hairy; styles 2. Female 
flowers campanulate, ;°,—;; in. long, nearly glabrous; racemes 3-8- 
flowered, suberect in flower, drooping in fruit, 1} in. long; pedicels 
mostly opposite, more or jess patent in open flower and fruit, §;—;\, 
in. long; braeteoles narrow, small, deciduous; calyx campanulate, 
cleft scarcely half-way down, {5 in. long, not accrescent; lobes 
deltoid ; corolla deeply cleft; segments oblong, more or less reeurved 
near the apex, pale chestnut colour; staminodes 0; ovary ovoid, 
. 2-4-celled, 3. in. long, ,45 in. in diam., glabrous above, with some 
short whitish slender hairs around the base ; ovules 4, oblong ; styles 
2, united at the base, ;'; in. long, glabrous; stigmas 2, bifid at the 
apex; fruit globose, purple or red, or at length black, glabrous, 
edible, 1-1 in. in diam., 1- or 2-celled, at length 1-celled and 
l-seeded ; seed in, in diam. ; albumen equable. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 
ed. Schult. 401; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 64, 129, 
132, 134, 144, 184; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 219 ; Krauss in Flora, 
1844, 824; Burke in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. (1846) 20; Hiern in 
Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 105, excl. syn. EF. humilis; Parmentier 
in Ann. Univers. Lyon, vi. fasc. ii. 27-30, 80,138; Kew Bulletin, 
1887, Sept., 11; Herb. Willd. n. 18479. Euclea n.s., Burchell, 
Trav. 8. Afr. i. 465, note. 
Var. 8, myrtina (Hiern, ].c. 106) ; a densely branched shrub, 1-5 ft. high, in 
habit like a myrtle, leafy, dicecious ; leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, opposite, nearly 
flat or less strongly wavy than in the type, 4-1 in. long, ;'5-+ in. broad, glabrous ; 
fruit pisiform, black, glabrous, } in. in diam., edible, sweet but subastringent. 
BE. myrtina, Burchell, l.c., ii. 588, note; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 217. Euclea, 
Burcheli, lc. ii. 264, note. ; 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 3358! Thom, 243! 386! 
Coast Reaion: Caledon Div.; Caledon, Ecklon. Swellendam Div, ; Swel- 
lendam, Jichtenstein. Riversdale Div.; hills near Spiegel River, Burchell, 
7198! near Riversdale, Schlechter, 1983! by the Kaffirkuils River, Krauss, 1758. 
Mossel Bay Div.; near Mossel Bay, Masson ! Uitenhage Div. ; various localities, 
Drége! Zeyher, 218! Alewander Prior! Tredgold, 35! Albany Div.; Fish 
River Heights, Hutton! near Grahamstown, MacOwan! Komgha Div.; hills 
near the Kei River, Drége? 
Crentrat Reaion: Calvinia Div.; between Lospers Plaats and Springbok 
Kuil River, 2000-3000 ft., Zeyher, 1124! Prince Albert Div.; Great Zwartberg 
Range, near Klaarstroom, Drége. Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3168 ! 
Graaff Reinet Div. ; between Kruid Fontein and Melk River, Burchell, 2943! 
near Graaff Reinet, 2900 ft., Bolus, 655! 
Katanari ReGion: Griqualand West; Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1792! 
Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, Burke! flats west of Blaauw Berg and Hang Klip, 
Baines! Var. 8: Griqualand West; Klip Fontein, Burchell, 2162! Bechuana- 
land; Kosi Fontein, Burchell, 2573 ! : 
The fruit of this, as also of other species of the genus, is called “ guarri” ; 
bruised and fermented it yields a kind of vinegar; see Thunberg, Travels, 
English edition, i. 203. According to Burchell, loc. cit. ii, 588-589, the variety 
produces one of the only two edible fruits found wild in Bechuanaland. The 
wood is brown, hard, close-grained, and fit for joiners’ fancy work, veneering, 
&e, See Pappe, Silva Capensis, 21, 
