MR HIERN, ON EBENACEvE. 95 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 217. n. 5 (1844). 



Shrub with glabrous leaves and branches. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, thickly 

 coriaceous, alternate, cuneate at base, subsessile, erect, subglaucescent, 1| 2| in. in length by 

 about J in. in width. 



? . Fruit densely racemose on cymes J in. long ; pedicels very short, 3 7 ; flowers 

 in. long, cylindrico-urceolate, pubescent, pentamerous. Calyx short. Corolla lobed at apex. 

 Ovary densely pilose ; styles 2, erect, glabrous ; ' stigmas dilated. Fruit globose, glabrescent, 

 finely netted, dark, | \ in. in diameter. Fruit-calyx very small, with 6 or more lobes ; seeds 

 unequally divided by three depressed lines ; albumen slightly ruminated. 



South Western districts, Cape of Good Hope. I have seen this plant only in fruit. The 

 flower is unknown. Between Vierentwintig-rivier and Pikenierskloof on the plain, under 

 500 feet, January, Drege!; Ecklon and Zeyher! 



5, EUCLEA LANCEA, Thunb.! Prodr. PL Capens., pars posterior, p. 85 (1800). 



E. foliis alternis, lineari-lanceolatis vel oblanceolatis, incequalibus, inferioribus apice rotun- 

 datis superioribus acutis, subsessilibus, glabris ; cymis 3-floris ; floribus subhermaphroditis (?), 

 5 6-meris ; corolld apice lobatd, subglabrd; staminibu-s 15; ovario hirsute. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. VIII. p. 219. n. 16 (1844). 



A glabrous shrub, erect, 3 ft. or more high. Branches alternate, terete, erect-patent 

 Leaves alternate, subsessile, linear-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, unequal, the lower ones rounded, 

 the upper acute at the apex, attenuate at base, coriaceous, 1 2 in. long by about in. wide, 

 entire, inconspicuously reticulato-venose. Flowers axillary, " in 3-flowered cymes," very nearly 

 glabrous, urceolate, f in. long by in. wide (imperfectly hermaphrodite ?). Calyx short, ^ in. 

 high by ^ in. wide, obscurely 5 6-lobed, coriaceous. Corolla 5 6-lobed at apex, shortly 

 ciliate, imbricated in aestivation. Stamens 15, alternately (?) in pairs and single; the pairs 

 consisting of 2 equal or unequal anthers placed back and front on a common filament or 

 combined by their filaments, alternating with the corolla-lobes. Anthers pointed, with short 

 patent pale setae on upper half, dehiscing laterally; filaments dark glabrous slender, shorter 

 than the majority of the anthers, mostly inserted at the base of the corolla. Ovary hairy, 

 ^ in. wide and long, ovoid-conical, rudimentary or 4-celled ? and -ovuled ? Styles 2, glabrous, 

 erect ; stigmas punctiform, emarginate at apex. 



Cape of Good Hope. Thunberg ! 



Near E. pseudebenus, E. Meyer, but differs by its obtuse lower leaves and nearly glabrous 

 corolla; it may possibly include E. pseudebenus as a form of the same species. 



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



E. foliis alternis, linearibus vel lineari-lanceolatis, apiculatis, glabris, breviter petiolatis; 

 cymis masculis racemosis 3 7-Jloris, femineis parvis 1 3-floris; floribus dicecis, plerumgue 

 o-meris; corolld pubescente, apice lobatd; staminibus 16 22, in flore femineo 0; ovario 

 pubescente, 4i-loculari. 



