512 Lxxxi. EBENACE^ (hiern). \_Eudea. 



Leares alternate, pubescent or not glaucous . . . i. E. multiflora. 



Fruiting calyx-tube consolidated 5. E.fructuosa. 



Ovary glabrous. 



Leaves often terete. Ovary 2-celled &. E. bUocularis. 



Leaves subopp^site. Ovary 4-celled I.E. Kellaii. 



1, E. pseudebenus, E. Mey. Gat PL Exsicc. Afr. Austr. Dreg. 

 p. 7 (1837). A more or less pubescent leafy shrub, ranging up to 8 

 ft. in height. Leaves alternate, crowded, linear, apiculate or raucro- 

 nate, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, pubescent or glabrescent, erect or 

 spreading, 1-2 J by iWi^- '■> petiole 2-^-7 in. Male cymes racemose, 

 hairy, 3-7-flowered, erect or erect-patent, i-? in. long ; pedicels slender, 

 ^i__i.'in. long ; flowers dioecious, white, -^q-} in. long, hoary-pubescent, 

 usually pentamerous ; calyx cleft, lobes deltoid ; corolla shortly lobed 

 at the apex ; stamens 12-22 ; anthers glabrous or sparingly hairy ; 

 filaments more or less connate below, inserted around the base of the 

 radimentary ovary. Female flowers solitary or 2-3 together in small 

 cymes ; staminodes ; ovary 4-celled, pubescent. Fruit globose, 1 in. 

 diam., l-celled, 1-seeded, glaucous, bluish, fleshy, edible. Seed marked 

 with 3 depressed lines ; albumen not or scarcely ruminated. — E. angus- 

 t!foUa, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 441. 



Iiower Guinea. Mossamedes, native name *' Emboto " as also of the next spe- 

 cies, Welwitsch ! " South of the Line," Curror ! 



Soutb Central. 23° S. Lat., Chwpman and Bairns ! 



Occurs also in the Western districts of the Cape Flora, where it is known by the 

 name of Orange RiA-er Ebony. 



2. E. lanceolata, E. Mey. Gat. Fl. Exsicc. Afr. Austr. Dreg. p. 7 

 (1837). A shrub or small tree, ranging from 1 to 12 ft. in height or 

 more; branches terete; young shoots angular. Leaves alternate or 

 more usually opposite, lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, obtuse or sub- 

 acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, 1-3 by ^-1^ in., 

 more or less wavy ; petioles ranging up to l in. Flowers racemose, 

 dicecious, white or tinged with red ; bmcts small or foliaceous. Male 

 racemes usually 5-9-flowered, i-| in. long ; flowers l-^ in. long, 

 tetramerous or rarely pentamerous ; calyx widely campanulate, short, 

 cleft, lobes deltoid ; corolla campanulate, deeply cleft, lobes oval, some- 

 what pubescent outside ; stamens usually 16, rarely fewer, inserted 

 mostly in pairs at the base of the corolla-tube ; ovary rudimentary, 

 hirsute; styles 2, glabrous. Female racemes |-^ in. long, 3-7- 

 flowered ; pedicels very short ; staminodes ; ovary subglobose, densely 

 hirsute, 4-celled ; styles 2, glabrous. Fruit globose, ^ in. diam. or 

 rather larger, reddish or dark purple, edible, pubescent or glabrate, 

 l-celled. Seed solitary ; testa somewhat intruded into the albumen. 

 — Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 97, cum syn. 



Our specimens belong to two forms, as follows : — 

 a. Leaves glabrous and shining, the young ones lepidote. 



IiOwer Guinea. Benguella, Mossamedes (native name "Emboto") and Huilla, 

 Welwitsch! 



)8. Leaves and shoots pubescent. 



Iiower Guinea. Huilla, Welwitsch! 



The species extends over several districts of the Cape Flora. 



