MR HIERN, ON EBENACILE. 87 



South Africa. Burke ! (in fruit) ; Ventenat; EcJclon and Zeyher / 1126, Magalisberg. 

 Perhaps ought to be united to It. pollens, Thunb., of which Dr Harvey considered it to 

 be a garden variety. 



9. ROYENA NITENS, Harvey MSS. 



R. foliis anguste ellipticis, utrinque plus minus angustatis, coriaceis, subsessilibus, dense 

 sericeis, parvis ; pedunculis unifloris, semiuncialibus ; calyce fructifero profunde 5-lobo, paulum 

 aucto ; fructu ellipsoideo, solitario. 



A closely branched shrub about 4 feet high with young shoots and underside of leaves 

 densely covered for the most part with close sericeous persistent pale hairs. Branches terete, 

 ascending, with dark rather shining cuticle. 



Leaves narrowly oval, crowded, narrowed more or less at both ends, coriaceous, dark and 

 shining above, 1-veined, subsessile, | in. long by ^ in. wide. 



Flowers unknown. 



Fruit on the young branches, solitary, on arching pubescent peduncles nearly J in. long. 

 Fruiting calyx deeply 5-lobed, spreading, rather more than in. across, with lanceolate lobes 

 which are about in. long. Fruit ellipsoidal, puberulous with very short inconspicuous hairs, 

 splitting into 5 (?) parts at the apex, | 1 in. long by ^ | in. thick, 1-celled. 



S. Africa. Natal. W. T. Gerrard! n. 1158, February. 



10. ROYENA CISTOIDES, Welw. MSS. 



E. foliis anguste obovatis, apice obtusis et mucronulatis, ad basim obtusam angustatis, 

 utrinque incano- sericeis, breviter petiolatis, margine reflexo; fructibus solitariis ; pedunculis 

 fructum fere cequantibus ; calyce fructibus appresso. 



A low shrub, 1 1| ft. high, branched from the base. Wood very hard, strong. Branches 

 terete, ultimately glabrate; shoots softly pubescent, erect; the fruiting branches arcuate- 

 ascending. 



Leaves alternate, narrowly obovate, obtuse and mucronulate at apex, narrowed to an obtuse 

 base, incano-sericeous on both sides, sub-coriaceous, | l^in. long by i-^-fin. wide, shortly 

 petiolate ; margins reflexed ; subvenose beneath. 



Fruiting peduncles axillary, solitary, % | in. long, patent, hairy, 1-fruited. Fruiting calyx 

 deeply 5-lobed, hairy on both sides, appressed to the fruit, \ f in. long, articulated to the 

 peduncle, with 10 little pits at the base on the concave surface of the articulation probably cor- 

 responding to the 10 cells of the ovary ; lobes elliptical, obtusely pointed. 



Fruit subglobose, puberulous, of shining golden colour, hard, 8 12-celled, J in. in 

 diameter, often bursting downwards from the apex, 3 5-seeded. Seeds in. long. Albumen 

 of seeds white, cartilaginous, not ruminated. 



Angola, W. Tropical Africa. Distr. Pungo Andongo, 3500 ft. altitude. Dr Welwitsch ! 

 no. 2532. In sandy thickets between Condo and Quisonde, near river Cuanza. Fruit ripe 

 in March. 



