82 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^B. 



Flowers in November and December. Grows by river-sides and among mountains. It 

 reaches 4300 feet altitude. 



South Africa. Eastern district of the Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. 



Drege !; Zeyher ! Uitenhage ; Mac Owan ! 429, 527, Mountains near Great Reynet ; 

 Mrs Hutton! Keiskamma, British Kaffraria; T. Cooper! 35, 186, 306, British Kaffraria; 

 Gueinzius ! Natal ; Gerrard and M'Ken ! 12, 18, 99, 1608, Natal ; Barber ! 307, Queenstown 

 district, a shrub, grows amongst other bushes, blossoms in spring and summer, flower pale 

 cream colour; Eurchell! 4166, 4186, 4907. 



3. ROYENA SCABRIDA, Harv. MSS. 



R. foliis ovatis, basi cordatis, prcesertim subtus scabris, coriaceis, subsessilibus ; floribus 

 pentameris, dicecis ; pedunculis unifloris; calyce o-partito; stylo in floribus masculis bifido, ovario 

 abortivo. 



A shrub with "branches simple, 8 15 feet high," pilose at the extremities with pale 

 hairs. 



Leaves ovate, cordate at base, acute or obtuse at apex, scabrous especially beneath, 

 subsessile, shining above, sericeous when young, ranging up to 2J in. long by If in. wide ; 

 margins subrevolute. 



5 Flowers nearly in. long, white. Peduncles axillary, bracteate, much shorter than the 

 leaves, 1-flowered. Bracts ovate, acuminate. 



Calyx | in. long, 5-partite, finely setose, erect; lobes ovate, acuminate, widened near 

 base, 



Corolla appressedly pilose, campanulate-urceolate, divided fths way down into 5 ovate- 

 oblong acute lobes. 



Stamens 10, in one xow, inserted at base of corolla, in. long ; filaments very short, 

 hairy at apex ; anthers hairy at and near apex, linear, acute. 



Ovary rudimentary, hairy ; style bifid, hairy below, glabrous above. 



Tugela, Natal. Gerrard and M'Ken! n. 1609. Grassy plains. Flowers in September 

 and October. 



Near R. cordata, E. Mey. 



4. ROYENA VILLOSA, Linn. Systema Naturae, ed. xu. torn. 2. p. 302 (1767). 



R. foliis obovato-oblongis, basi cordatis, apice obtusis, villosis, petiolatis ; floribus penta- 

 meris, hermaphroditis ; pedunculis 1 3-jloris; calyce 5-partito; stylo 4 5-lobo; ovario 8 10- 

 loculari. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vni. p. 213. n. 11 (1844). 



R. scabra, Burm. Prodr. p. 13 (1768). 



R. scandens, Burch. MSS. in Hb. Afr. Austr. nn. 3673, 3793 (1813). 



Pubescent trailing shrub with patent branches, 5 to 40 feet long. 



Leaves obovate- oblong with cordate base and rounded emarginate or shortly-pointed 

 apex ; pubescent especially beneath, glabrescent and dark green above, paler beneath, some- 



