90 MB HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 



EXCLUDED AND NOMINAL SPECIES. 



Royena latifolia, Willd. Enum. pi. Berol. Suppl. p. 23 (1813). Name only. Cfr. JR. sessi- 

 lifolia. 



Royena, media, Hort. ex Steud. Nomencl. bot. edit. ii. voL ii. p. 475 (1841). Name only. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Royena polyandra, Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 240 (1781) = Euclea polyandra, E. Mey. 



Royena (sp.) n. 15, EckL and Zeyh. ex Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. p. 71 (185960) 

 = Aberia tristis, Sond. 



Royena 9140, Dreg, ex Alph. DC. Prodr. vftl. p, 216. n. * (1844) = Euclea coriacea 

 Alph. DC. 



II. EUCLEA, Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. xm. p. 747 (1774), non Lour. 



Flores diced, rarius polygami, 4 7-meri, racemosi vel paniculati. Calyx non accrescens. 

 Corolla campanulata vel urceolata, lobis in prcefloratione sinistrorse contortis. 



FLOS MASCUXUS : Stamina 10 30, scepius geminata. Ovarium plerumque abortivum. 



FLOS FEMINEUS: staminodia 0, rarius 2 4. Ovarium 4-loculare, rarius 2- vel 6-loculare; 

 ovula in loculis solitaria, rarius bina in ovariis bilocularibus. Fructus parvus, saspius 1- 

 locularis et I-spermus. 



Frutices vel rarius arbores African!, foliis alternis vel oppositis vel rarius in tribus verti- 

 cillatis, cymis axillaribus. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 215. n. n. (1844). 



Padus (sp.) Bunn. Ran Afric. pi. p. 238. t. 84. f. 1. (1738). 



Royena (sp.) Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 240 (1781). 



Celastrus (sp.) Thunb. Fl. Cap., pars post., p. 115 (1800). 



Diplonema G. Don, Diet. Gard. and Bot. IV. p. 42 (1837). 



Myrsine (sp.) Hochst. in PI. Schimp. Abyss, exsicc. sect. i. n. 159 (1840). 



Rymia Endl. gen. pi. n. 4250 p. 743 (1835 40). 



Kellaua Alph. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. vol. XVI. p. 96 (1841). 



Brachycheila Harv. in Linnaea XX. p. 192 (1847). 



