Boyena.] lxxxi. ebenace;e (hiern). 511 



Flowers J-|in.long, white or yellowish, pentamerous or rarely tetra- 

 merous ; peduncles solitary, 1- (rarely 2-) flowered, longer than the 

 flowers, |— l^in. long, arching, bearing 2-3 narrow bracts abont or 

 above the middle. Calyx partite ; lobes ovate or lanceolate, acute, 

 hairy, accrescent, in fruit spreading or reflexed. Stamens half as 

 long as the flower ; anthers hairy. Ovary hairy ; style 3-5-cleft, hairy. 

 Fruit subglobose or ovoid, pubescent or rarely glabrate, ^-1 in. diam., 

 sometimes bursting in a valvate manner. — Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 

 85, cum syn. 



3bower Guinea. Umlla,, in woods a,nd thickets, Welwitschf . 

 XMtozamb. Bistr. Seshike, 3,000 ft. alt., Kirk! Manganja hills, Metier ! 

 Occurs also, widely distributed, south of the Tropic. 



2. It. cistoides, Welw. ex Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 87 (1873). A 

 low bush of l-lj ft., with hard strong wood ; branches terete, at 

 length glabrate ; branchlets softly pubescent, erect ; fruiting branches 

 arching-ascending. Leaves narrowly obovate, obtuse or mucronulate 

 at the apex, narrowed to an obtuse base, subcoriaceous, hoary silky on 

 both sides, rather veiny beneath, shortly petiolate, ^-Ij by ^— | in. ; 

 margins reflexed. Flowers unknown. Fruiting peduncles solitary, 

 ^f in. long, spreading, hairy, 1-fruited. Fruitiug calyx deeply 5- 

 lobed, hairy on both sides, appressed to the fruit, ^-^ in. long ; lobes 

 elliptical, obtusely pointed. Fruit subglobose, puberulous, glossy, hard, 

 ■|-|in. diam., often splitting from the apex; colour golden. Seeds 

 3-5, ^ in, long. 



Xnower Guinea. Angola, Pungo Andongo, 3,500 ft. alt., Welwitsch! 



2. EUCLEA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 664. 



Calyx campanulate cup-shaped or subrotate, 4-5-lobed, not accres- 

 cent ; lobes usually ovate or deltoid. Corolla campanulate or hemi- 

 spherical, shortly exceeding the calyx, 4-5-lobed ; lobes ovate or 

 rounded. Stamens 10-22 (in our species), or in the female plant or 

 represented by 2-4 glabrous staminodes, free or in pairs, inserted at, 

 the base of the corolla-tube or around the rudimentary ovary. Ovary 

 abortive in the male plant, in the female 4- or rarely 2-celled ; styles 

 2, usually glabrous ; ovules 4 in all. Fruit subglobose, indehiscent, 

 usually 1-cellod and 1-seeded. Seed globose, usually marked outside 

 with 3 longitudinal depressed lines ; albumen uniform or ruminated. — 

 "Evergreen shrubs or small trees with opposite subopposite alternate or 

 rarely ternate leaves, axillary racemes or panicles and small dioecious 

 or rarely polygamous flowers. 



A genus of 19 species, all confined to the Cape Flora, except the following: — 

 Ovary hairy. 



Corolla shortly lobed at the apex \. E. pseudebcmcs. 



Corolla cleft or deeply lobod. 



Fruiting calyx-tubo receiving the base of the fruit. 



Male flowers racemose, 5-9 together 2. E. lanccolata. 



Male flowers panicled or many together. 



Leaves opposite, glabrous and subglaucous above . 3. E. divinoriim. 



