MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^. 97 



cJ. Flower ^ in. in length. Calyx small, flattish, 4-fid. with wide lobes. Corolla barrel- 

 shaped, 4-lobed, many times higher than calyx; lobes about J depth of corolla, not reflexed, 

 semi-circular and imbricated in flower. Stamens 1C, the few inner ones smaller, glabrous or 

 nearly so, -fr fa in. long ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, dehiscing laterally, thick ; filaments very 

 short, thinner than anthers, inserted with corolla. Ovary rudimentary, slightly hairy, terminated 

 by 1 or 2 styles. 



9 . Bracts linear, rather longer than pedicel ; flower about fa in. in length. Calyx 

 campanulate, ^5 in. in height, 4-lobed; lobes not quite half the depth of the calyx, with 

 intervening sinuses in the form of arcs of circles. Corolla openly campanulate, shortly 4-fid, 

 with spreading not reflexed oval or ovate lobes, fa in. in length ; stamens 0. Ovary ellipsoidal, 

 hairy, terminated by 2 thick glabrous styles, fa in. in height ; styles ^ in. long, erect, con- 

 tiguous, dilated, and emarginate at apex ; ovary 4-celled, 4-ovuled, two of the septa being very 

 slender, namely, those opposite the styles. 



Rarely a flower is pentamerous. 



Western districts of Cape Colony, South Africa. Zeyher! 1125, Windhoek, Olifant River ; 

 Burke! Great Fish River. 



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



E. foliis alternis vel oppositis, lanceolatis ovatis vel anguste ellipticis, apice obtusis vel 

 subacutis, plerumque undulatis et basi in petiolum brevem angustatis, integerrimis ; cymis race- 

 mosis, 3 9-Jforis ; floribus dicecis, 4- raro 5- meris ; calyce campanulato ; corolla 4 5-fidd ; 

 staminibus 16 17, in flore femineo 0; ovario hirsutissimo. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 218. n. 12 (1844). 



E. ochrocarpa, E. Mey. Zwei Pflanz. Doc. Dreg. p. 184; in Flora, 1843; Alph. DC. I.e. 

 p. 217. n. 9. 



E. desertorum, Eckl. and Zeyh. in Linnsea XX. p. 192 (1847). 



Pubescent glabrous or glaucescent shrub or tree, ranging up to 20 25 feet high and 

 trunk up to 10 15 inches thick; dioscious; branches terete, at 30 45; young shoots angular. 

 Leaves lanceolate ovate or narrowly elliptical, alternate or opposite, coriaceous, obtuse or 

 subacute at apex (very rarely acute), more or less undulating at the entire margins, often 

 narrowed at base into the short petiole, 1 3 in. long by -fa 1 J^ in. wide ; petioles fa J in. 

 long. Inflorescence racemose, often with leaf-like bracts. 



$. Racemes \ 1 in. long, 3 9-flowered ; occasionally two racemes proceed from the 

 same axil ; pedicels -fa ^ in. long. Flowers usually tetramerous, occasionally pentamerous, 

 fa ^ in. long. Calyx widely campanulate, small ; . lobes deltoid, about half the length of 

 the calyx. Corolla campanulate ; lobes ovate or oval, about half the length of the corolla, 

 somewhat pubescent outside. Stamens 16 17 (very rarely 8 10), mostly inserted in pairs 

 at base of corolla, shorter than the corolla ; anthers hispid or nearly glabrous, as long as the 

 slender filaments. Ovary rudimentary, hirsute ; styles 2, glabrous. 



2 . Racemes J in. long, pubescent, 3 5-flowered ; pedicels ^ in. long. Flowers tetra- 

 merous or pentamerous. Calyx and corolla as in the male plant. Staminodes 0. Ovary sub- 

 globose, very hirsute, 4-celled ; styles 2, glabrous, as high as the corolla. Fruit globular, in. 

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