Royena| LXXIX. EBENACE. 647 
shrublets, only 6 to 12 in. high; but even in such state they 
frequently bear flowers and fruits. 
1. ROYENA L.; Benth. & Hook. f, Gen. Pl. ii. p. 663. 
1. R. pallens Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. p. 80 (1794) ; Hiern in 
‘Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 510. 
Huriia.—An evergreen shrub of 6 to 10 ft., occasionally taller, and, 
perhaps, in primitive forests a tree ; flowers white, rather fleshy. In 
bushy and wooded places along the banks of the river Monino and 
the Lopollo stream ; fl. Dec. 1859. <A rather narrow-leaved form. 
No. 2534. A shrub 4 to 6 ft. high, rarely a small tree of 8 ft., 
repeatedly branched in a divaricate manner ; flowers whitish ; calyx 
usually 5-, rarely 4-cleft. In thin open forests and in thickets between 
Lopollo and the river Monino ; young fr. Dec. 1859, fl. Jan. 1860. A 
rather broad-leaved form. No. 2533. A shrublet, scarcely 9 in. high ; 
stems ascending. In elevated rocky parts of Morro de Monino ; 
without either fl. or fr. April 1860. Apparently in a sickly state, 
burdened with the Fungus n. 128, dcidium Welwitschit Lagerh. ; 
probably belonging to this species. No. 1255. 
2. R. cistoides Welw. ex Hiern, Monogr. Eben. in Trans. 
Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. p. 87 (1873), and in Oliv., /.c., p. 511. 
PuNGo ANDONGO.—A procumbent shrub, 1 to 13 ft. high, branched 
from the base, whitish-hoary, resembling in habit a species of Cistus ; 
wood very hard, tenacious ; young branches erect, the fruiting ones 
arching-ascending ; leaves silky-hoary ; fruit greenish-glaucous when 
young, at length turning golden-yellow, shining, received at the base 
in the 5-cleft calyx, obtusely mucronate at the apex, globular, hard, 8- 
to 12-celled, 1- to 6-, mostly 3- to 5-seeded, several of the cells being 
abortive. In wooded sandy sunny forests and in thickets between 
Condo and Quisonde at the river Cuanza ; fr. March 1857. No. 2582, 
and Couu. Carp. 703. 
2, EUCLEA L. edit. Murr. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 664. 
1. E. pseudebenus E. Mey. ex Drége, Cat. Pl. Exsice. Afr. 
Austr. p. 7 (1837) ; Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. viii. p. 217 (1844) ; 
Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 512. 
Diospyros pseudebenus Parment. in Ann, Univ. Lyon, vi. fase. 2, 
p. 138 (1892). 
MossaMEDeEs.—A shrub, 4 to 8 ft. high, much branched from the 
base upwards; branches and branchlets erect ; leaves coriaceous ; 
fruit edible, resembling in look and size a whortleberry, but less juicy 
and not so pleasant, black-bluish, drupaceous, but little juicy ; seed 
solitary. In sandy bushy places along the banks of the rivers Bero 
and Girdaul, very plentiful ; in Mata dos Carpinteiros ; fr. July 1859, 
No. 2544. A shrub of 5 to 8 ft. with the habit of a Daphne ; flowers 
dicecious, gamopetalous ; calyx of the male flowers 5-cleft; corolla 
globose-urceolate, 5- or 6-lobed, rather fleshy, white, tomentose outside; 
stamens 12 to 16, inserted at the bottom of the corolla-tube ; anthers 
erect, hirsute ; filaments short ; pistil obsolete. Fruits pea-shaped, 
edible, pleasantly acidulous, clustered in great abundance on the 
branchlets, glaucous-bluish like those of a juniper. In bushy places 
and in small open woods composed of Tamarix orientalis Forsk. and 
species of Cordia, along the sandy banks of the rivers Bero and 
