LXXIX. EBENACE. 225 
Female flowers wholly without stamens, racemose . 2. Eucima. 
Female flowers with 8 abortive stamens, solitary. . 3. DIosPYRos. 
Calyx cup-like. Corolla 3-fid. Flowers solitary, sessile 4. MaBa. 
1. ROYENA, Linn. 
Flowers bisexual or polygamous. Calyx 5-parted, rarely 
5-lobed, pubescent, frequently enlarged after flowering. Co- 
rolla 5-fid, bell-shaped; the lobes obtuse, twisted to the left. 
Stamens 10, attached to the base of the corolla, 2 placed be- 
fore each corolla-lobe in 1 row; filaments short; anthers 
linear-lanceolate, often hispid. Glands 10, round the base 
of the ovary. Ovary hairy, when fertile 4—10-celled; when 
barren of fewer cells ; style 2-5-lobed. Berry leathery.— 
DC. Prod. viii. p. 210. 
Shrubs, all South African. Leaves alternate, entire; peduncles axillary, 
mostly 1-flowered ; flowers greenish-yellow, turning black in drying.—17 
species, dispersed. 
2. EUCLEA, Linn. 
Flowers dicecious ; female without stamens; male with 
arudimentary ovary. Calyx 4-7-lobed, not enlarging. Co- 
rolla 4—7-lobed, bell-shaped, longer than the calyx; lobes 
obtuse, twisted to the left. Stamens 10-82 (the number va- 
riable in the same species), inserted at the base of corolla; 
anthers lanceolate, longer than the filaments. Ovary 4-celled ; 
styles 2,2-lobed, glabrous. Berry globose, by abortion 1-celled, 
1-seeded.—DC. Prod. viii. 215. 
Cape shrubs, with alternate or opposite leaves, often undulate, glabrous 
or pubescent, and axillary, racemose, white flowers.—15 species, dispersed. 
3. DIOSPYROS, Linn. 
Flowers dicecious. Calyx 4-6-lobed or rarely irregularly 
cleft. Corolla tubular or bell-shaped, 4—6-fid ; lobes twisted 
to the left. Stamens, in the males, 8-50, often 16, inserted at 
base of corolla, or partly on the torus; filament shorter than 
the lnear-lanceolate anther; in the female flower mostly 8, 
barren. Ovary in female 4-8- or 10-12-celled, in males 
abortive ; styles 2-4, connate at base, mostly 2-lobed. Berry 
globose or ovoid, covered by the mostly enlarged calyx, 4—8- 
eelled.— DC. Prod. viii. p. 222. 
Trees of hot countries, with very hard, heavy, dark-coloured wood, of 
which Ebony is a well-known example.—D. Capensis, A. DC., has ellip- 
tical, glabrous leaves ; solitary or ternate, sessile male flowers, a bell- or cup- 
shaped slightly lobed calyx, and a deeply 5-fid corolla twice as long as the 
calyx. Locality not known. 
