94 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 



? . Cymes tomentose, densely racemose, axillary, 1 several-flowered, pendulous, shorter 

 than the leaves ; pedicels ^ in. long. Flowers in. long, 5 7-merous, when solitary with 

 numerous imbricated caducous bracts on the short peduncle. Corolla ^ in. long, shortly lobed, 

 villous outside, glabrous inside, urceolate or campanulate, nearly 3 times the length of the 

 calyx. Staminodes 0. Ovary tomentose, 4-celled, 4-ovuled. Styles 2, nearly glabrous. Fruit 

 solitary, on peduncle ^5 in. long, pubescent erect or erect-patent. Immature fruit ovoid, 

 somewhat conical at apex, incano-tomentose, 4-celled, | Jin. long by \ r5 m - thick. 

 Fruiting calyx 5 7-fid, very tomentose, shallow; lobes deltoid. 



Called Kersboschjes also Faxlidls-bosch by the natives in South Africa. 



Occurs in Western districts of Cape Colony up to 2000ft. alt. Masson! ; Dregef; 

 Krauss ; (?) Burchell ! 987. Namaqualand, Wltitehead ! 



3. EUCLEA CORIACEA, Alph. DC. Prodr. vnr. p. 216. n. 4 (1844). 



E. foliis ovatis, alternis, plerumque acutis, apiculatis, basi latis et subcordatis, subgla- 

 brescentibus, breviter petiolatis, undatis ; cymis densis, 1 %-floris, $ 3 7-floris ; floribus 

 5 Q-meris, dicecis; corolld apice lobatd; staminibus 16 17; fructibus globosis, subglabratis. 



Euclea n. 9140, E. Mey. Zwei Pflanz. Doc. Dreg, in Flora xxvi. ii. p. 48(1843). 



Royena n. 9140, Dreg, ex Alph. DC. I.e. (Hb. DC!). 



A dense shrub with strong dark-cinereous branches. Young parts and inflorescence slightly 

 pubescent. Leaves alternate, ovate, more or less acute, apiculate, wide and subcordate at base ; 

 coriaceous, pubescent, nearly glabrescent, without evident veins above, veined and duller 

 beneath, 1 2 in. long by J IJin. wide; margins wavy, sometimes obscurely crenulate; 

 petioles ranging up to in. long. Bracts ovate, small, caducous. 



Flowers ^ in. long, axillary, 1 3 together, crowded ; pedicels shorter than the flowers. 

 Calyx 5 6-fid ; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla urceolate, 4 times the length of the calyx, 5 6- 

 lobed at the apex. Stamens 16 17, sometimes in pairs; anthers linear lanceolate, silky at the 

 back. Ovary rudimentary. 



$. Flowers 3 7 together ; peduncles very short ; pedicels ranging up to -j^y in. long. Calyx 

 (in fruit) 5 6-fid, nearly flat, stellate, iin. in diameter; lobes ovate or lanceolate, acute. 

 Fruit globose, ^ f in. in diameter, subglabrate or minutely puberulous, 1-celled, 1-seeded ; 

 seeds subglobose, about Jin. in diameter, marked outside with depressed curved lines; testa 

 intruded -into the hard ruminated albumen. 



East-midland districts of Cape Colony, S. Africa. Tafelberg, Drege !, in moist and rocky 

 places, 6000 7000ft. alt. (in <$ flower, December); side of Mount Oudeberg near Graaff Reinet, 

 4500ft. alt., November, Bolus! n. 638 (in fruit). 



4. EUCLEA ACUTIFOLIA, E. Mey. Cat. PI. Exsicc. Afr. Austr. Dreg. p. 7 (1837). 



E. foliis alternis, oblo'ngo-lanceolatis, apiculatis, coriaceis, glabris, basi cuneatis, subsessili- 

 bus ; cymis femineis dense racemosis ; calyce 6-lobato ; corolld apice lobatd; ovario dense piloso; 

 fructibus dense racemosis, globosis, glabrescentibus. 



