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Female flowers wholly without stamens, racemose . 2. Euclea. 

 Female (lowers with 8 abortive stamens, solitary . . 3, DiosPYEOS. 

 Calyx cup-like. Corolla 3-fid. Flowers solitary, sessile 4. Maba. 



1. ROYENA, Linn. 



Flowers bisexual or polygamous. Calyx 5-parted, rarely 

 5-lobecl, 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. G-lands 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 axillaiy, 

 mostly 1 -flowered ; flowers greenish-yellow, turning black in drying. — 17 

 species, dispersed. 



2. EUCLEA, Linn. 



Flowers dioecious ; female without stamens ; male with 

 a rudimentary ovary. Calyx 4-7-lobed, not enlarging. Co- 

 rolla 4-7-lobed, bell-shaped, longer than the calyx ; lobes 

 obtuse, t^visted to the left. Stamens 10-32 (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 dioecious. 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 linear-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- 

 celled.— 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 shghtly lobcd calyx, and a deeply 5-fid corolla twice as long as the 

 calyx. Locality not known. 



