100 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 



Female plant unknown. Called by the natives in Batoka country Matlakula, Mosakola, 

 where it is the medicine of the diviners being rubbed in the hands. 



South Tropical Africa, Victoria Falls, Dr Kirk! ; Delagoa Bay, Forbes! 



11. EUCLEA MULTIFLORA, sp. nov. PLATE III. 



E. foliis ellipticis vel oblongis, apice rotundatis vel obtusis, basi subangustatis, alternis 

 vel raro suboppositis ; cymis prcesertim masculis paniculatis, multiftoris ; floribus polygamis, 

 5- raro 6-meris ; calyce campanulato ; corolla profunde lobatd; staminibus numero corollas 

 loborum quadruplis, in flore femineo ; ovario hirsuto. 



Pubescent subglabrous or even subglaucous shrub, usually subferruginous, polygamous 

 but usually dioecious, sometimes hermaphrodite, 2 10 ft. high. Branches usually angular near 

 the extremities. Leaves elliptical or oblong, usually rounded or obtuse at apex and somewhat 

 narrowed at base into the petiole, coriaceous, alternate or rarely sub-opposite, often dark and 

 shining on the upper surface ; veins usually not conspicuous ; margins undulated or plane ; 

 1 4 in. in length by ^ 1 in. in width ; petiole T ^ in. in length. Flowers especially the 

 male ones paniculate, sometimes as many as 30 in one panicle, variable in size, tetramerous 

 or pentamerous or rarely hexamerous. Calyx campanulate, hairy, with ovate or deltoid lobes 

 extending about half way down the calyx. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx, dark, 

 deeply lobed; lobes oval usually with a hairy keel outside. Stamens 4 times as numerous 

 as the lobes of the corolla in the male or hermaphrodite plants, none in the female plant, 

 subglabrous or somewhat hairy, in pairs inserted at base of corolla or around base of ovary, 

 outer ones longer, enclosed in corolla ; filaments glabrous. Ovary in male flowers often abor- 

 tive, in female or hermaphrodite flowers globular, hairy, 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled; styles 2, 

 glabrous or nearly so, included within the corolla. 



A variable and widely distributed plant. Flowers in August and fruits from September 

 to October. Fruit at first pubescent, in most cases ferruginously so, subsequently black and 

 glabrous, globular, ^jin. in diameter, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Embryo curved and tending to be 

 incumbent. 



Cape of Good Hope, Natal and Angola. 



Wallich! ; fBergiusf; Zeyher! 767, 778, 3361; Grahamstown, Mac Owan! ; Burchell, 

 3510, 3572, 3980 (seeds consumed by a species of Apion), 4835; Albany, Miss Bowker! ; 

 Eastern districts, Button ! ; British Kaffraria, Cooper ! 44 ; Clanwilliam, Zeyher ! ; Natal, 

 6-ueinzius f , Cooper ! 1253, Gerrardf 92, 699. 



Benguela, Distr. Huilla, Dr Welwitsch! n. 2557, arborescent shrub 5 8, sometimes 

 10ft. high, forming a dense dark green head, young fruit 1- rarely 2-seeded, hirsute-tomen- 

 tose, in thickets, Matus de Monino, February. Do. Dr Welwitsch ! n. 2555, bush 4 8 ft. high, 

 in high thickets near Tau, in bud, May. Do. Dr Welwitsch ! n. 1258, handsome shrub 5 8 

 feet high, in thickets at the skirts of woods near Lopollo, leaves frequently attacked by a 

 fungus (Sphceria). Angola, distr. Pungo Andongo, Dr Welwitsch! n. 1257, bush 5 7 feet 

 high with erect trunk 2 2 J in. in diameter and spreading branches towards the top, branches 

 and fruit tomentose, at first whitish, soon becoming rufous, leaves dark green with a high 

 polish, in stony woods at Barrancos de Catele, young fruit in December. 



