MB HIERN, ON EBENACE^. 



Fruit ovoid or subglobose, ^ 1 in. in diameter, enclosed by inflated pubescent or subgla- 

 brate calyx, 2 4-celled and -seeded, red and fleshy when ripe; flesh firm, whitish. Seeds 

 glabrous, rather shining, yellowish ; testa thin ; albumen cartilaginous, hard, white ; embryo 

 half to two-thirds of the length of the albumen, somewhat curved inwards ; cotyledons ovate, 

 rather shorter than the radicle. 



In Cape Colony known by the name of Zwartbaste (blackwood). See Burchell, Travels, 

 vol. I. p. 317 (1822). 



Grows in forests, stony places, on the sides of mountains, &c. South Africa. From Cape 

 Town eastwards to Natal. Beeves!; Ecklon! 698 ("It. hirsuta," on the eastern side of Devil's 

 Mountain) ; Drkge A. (above .the waterfall at Duivelsberg 1000 2000 ft. alt. May), B. (Bosch - 

 rivier, in a wood, below 500 ft. alt. October), c ! (Katrivier, in a wood on a hill, 1000 

 2000ft. alt. November) ; T. Cooper! 1062 (Orange Free State) ; Miller!; Bowie!; DrPappe! 

 (slope of Devil's Mountain); Burchell! 5256 (Hartebeest-Vlakte and Kaatje's Kraal), 5415 

 (in a forest close to Melkhout Kraal); Eoxburgh!; Harvey!; Alexander!; Mac Owan! 309 

 Eastern districts ; Zeyher ! 3352. 



NalaL Dr Sutherland ! (a low scrubby bush growing among stones). 



It is cultivated in St Helena, Gen. Walker! (stamens 5, abortive) ; and has long been 

 introduced into Europe. 



2. KOYENA CORDATA, E. Mey. Cat-aL PL Exs. Afr. Austr. Dreg. p. 7 (1837). 



R. foliis elliptiois vel oblongis, 'basi cordatis, nitidis, coriaceis, apice obtusis vel subacutis, 

 subsessilibus ; floribiis pentameris, hermaphroditis ; pedunculis unifloris ; calyce 5-partito, ac- 

 crescente ; stylo bildbo ; ovario ^-loculari. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. 211. n. 2 (1844). 



B. opaca, E. Mey. Pflanz. Doc. Dreg. p. 217 in Flora XXVI. ii. (1843), Alph. DC. Prodr. 

 VIII. p. 211. n. 3 (1844). 



B. supra-cordata, Burch. MSS. in Hb. Afr. Austr. n. 4907 (1814). 



A shrub with numerous branches, and a brown-ferruginous pubescence on young parts, 

 quickly glabrescent and nitescent. 



Leaves elliptical or oblong, cordate at base, usually obtuse-pointed mucronate or api- 

 culate at apex, coriaceous, subsessile, often pubescent underneath, | 2 in. long by | 1 in. 

 wide. 



Peduncles \ fin. long, arching, bearing 2 alternate caducous ovate acute ciliate bracts 

 similar to the leaves in shape \ in. long. Flowers about double the length of the calyx, 

 \ in. long. 



Calyx 5-partite, villous on both sides, \ in. long ; nearly glabrate in fruit ; lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, hirsute and ciliate ; calyx much accrescent in fruit with wide ovate cordate 

 or auricled lobes, often nearly an inch long. 



Corolla 5-lobed, with, a short cylindrical tube and reflexed rounded lobes ; lobes oblong, 

 f length of corolla, puberulous on both sides. 



Stamens 10, inserted at base of corolla, reaching to the mouth of the corolla, pilose. 



Style 2-lobed; ovary 4-celled, pilose, cells 1-ovuled. 



Fruit subglobose, half an inch or more in diameter. 



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