84 MR HIERN, ON EBENACEA'. 



Peduncles 1-flowered, arching, shorter than the flowers, ^ ^ in. long, usually bibract- 

 eate in the middle. 



Calyx deeply 5-lobed, hairy on both sides ; lobes ovate, accrescent, erect or reflexed in 

 fruit. Corolla urceolate, 5-fid, grey-felted outside, puberulous inside ; lobes rounded or obtuse. 



Stamens usually 10 ; anthers hairy ; filaments dilated. 



Styles 2 4, usually 2 ; stigmas more or less dilated, glabrous. Ovary villous, 4-, 6-> 

 8-celled. 



Fruit globose, about \ in. in diameter, more or less tomentose, often dehiscing by 2 or 

 3 valves. Fruiting calyx-lobes rounded, erect or reflexed. 



Grows among mountains and rocks and along banks of rivers and reaches 5000 feet in 

 Natal. Flowers in August. Cape of Good Hope, Kalihari region and Natal. 



Dr Sutherland! Natal (in flower); Dr Zeyher ! 3350, 3351, Uitenhage and Clanwilliam 

 (in flower); Burchell! 7531 (in leaf), 7537 (in fruit), 7446 (in fruit), 1696 (in flower), 2502 

 (in fruit), 4898 (in fruit) ; Dregef; P.MacOwan! 269, Humansdorp (in flower); T. Cooper! 

 212, Queenstown (in flower); Verreaux! ; Krauss, 1719; S. Africa, Masson Auge and Olden- 

 burg!; Barber! 311, Queenstown district, on stony hill-sides, flowers white, blossoms in 

 spring. 



6. ROYENA SESSILIFOLIA, sp. nov. 



R. foliis oblongo-obovatis, membranaceis, sessilibus, obtusis, basi angustatis ; floribus pen- 

 tameris, dicecis; pedunculis unifioris f brevibus; calyce 5-partito; cor olid urceolatd; stamini- 

 bus in flore masculo 14, glabris; ovario abortive. 



A shrub with erect stem ; branches pubescent, spreading at about 70". 



Leaves oblong-obovate, sessile, submembranous, pubescent beneath and on both sides when 

 young, rounded or retuse at apex, narrowed to an obtuse base, 1| 2 in. long by J fin. wide; 

 veins inconspicuous, depressed on the upper surface. 



Peduncles axillary, solitary, bearing one flower longer than itself, pubescent. Flowers 

 fragrant, \ in. long. 



Calyx pubescent outside, 5-partite, with lanceolate erect-patent 3-veined lobes in. long. 



Corolla urceolate, 5-lobed at apex, glabrous inside, pubescent outside ; lobes recurved, ob- 

 tuse, T Vin. long. 



Stamens 14, glabrous; anthers dehiscing from apex; filaments short; pollen globular, 

 smooth, -fow^ m - m diameter. 



O.vary rudimentary, rounded, pubescent. 



Pubescence whitish. Described from a living specimen cultivated in Hort. Kew ! Approaches 

 R. ambigita, Vent, by having more than 10 stamens, but differs from it by its shorter peduncles ; 

 differs also from all other species of Royena by its absolutely sessile leaves. 



A specimen in the Leiden herbarium with sessile leaves, which however are coriaceous and 

 usually pointed at the apex and have the veins in relief on both sides, may be the same species ; 

 it was cultivated in 1785. 



Cfr. R. latifolia, Willd. Enum. PL Hort. Berol. Suppl. p. 23 (1813, sine descriptione), Alph. 

 DC. Prodr. vili. p. 215. 



