MB HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 103 



Glabrous shrub, 2 4 feet higb or more, or even a low tree. Stem shining and turning 

 pale yellowish ; branches at 40 50 with stem, alternate opposite or subverticillate. Leaves 

 alternate opposite or 3 in a whorl, varnished on surface, crowded, oblanceolate-oblong, thickly 

 coriaceous, flat or wavy, subsessile with thick articulation, 1J 3 in. in length by to J in. 

 in width. Cymes racemose, much shorter than the leaves ; pedicels -fo in. long ; bracts small 

 and slender. 



<$. Flowers tetramerous, nearly glabrous, small. Calyx 4-fid. Corolla deeply 4-lobed. 

 Stamens about 12, in one row. Ovary rudimentary. 



? . Flowers 11 21 in cyme, ^ in. in length by T ^ in. in width, ovoid, glabrous. Calyx 

 g 1 ^ in. in height by -J^ in. in width, 4 5-fid. Corolla openly campanulate, with nearly erect 

 lobes, Jg in. in height by fa in. in width, 4 5-lobed. Staminodes or 4, inserted at base 

 of interior of corolla or around base of ovary, glabrous, without anthers. Styles 2 3, ^5 in. 

 in length, somewhat concave as seen from inside; stigmas bilobed at apex, projecting beyond 

 the corolla ; ovary glabrous, ovoid, ^ in. in length and width, 4 6-celled ; ovules pendulous, 

 solitary in the cells. Fruit globular, J in. in diameter, dark, glabrous, 1-seeded, 1-celled ; seed 

 marked outside by 3 depressed longitudinal lines ; fruiting calyx small ; albumen not ruminated 

 but testa introverted at apex ; embryo slightly curved. 



Nearly related to E. racemosa L. from which it differs by its oblanceolate-oblong and 

 longer leaves and its longer and more numerously flowered racemes, by its ovary being 

 sometimes 6-celled, and by its 12 stamens being in one row in the only <J specimen examined. 



South Africa. South-western districts of Cape Colony and Natal. In a walk by the 

 Baaken's river under Fort Frederick, Algoa Bay, 14 Dec. 1813, Burchell! 4356, in $ flower; 

 on the rocky side of the mountain, also on the western bank of Wagenbooms river on 

 tbe north side of Lange Kloof, 11 March 1814, Burchell! 4909, in $ flower; Cape of Good 

 Hope, Ecklon and Zeyher! ; Natal, W. T. Gerrard! 1506, 1606, in flower-bud. 



17. EuCLEA KELLAU, Hochst. in pi. Schimp. Abyss, exsicc. sect. ii. n. 1078 (1842). 



E. foliis suboppositis, obovatis vel oblanceolatis, apice rotundatis, basi cuneatis, breviter 

 petiolatis ; cymis racemosis; floribus dicecis, 4 5-meris ; corolla 4 o-fdd ; staminibus 12, 

 in flore femineo 0; stylis 2; ovario glabro, 4<-loculari. 



Hochst. Nov. Gen. pi. Afr. in Flora 1843, p. 83 ; Alph. DC. Prodr. vili. p. 672 (1844) ; 

 Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 24. t. 66 (1847). 



Myrsine Kellau, Hochst. in pL Schimp. Abyss, exsicc. sect. i. n. 159 (1840). 



Kellaua Schimperi, Alph. DC. in Ann. Sc. nat. ser. ii. vol. XVIII. p. 209 (1842), Prodr. 

 vni. p. 290 (1844). 



Shrub or small tree, glabrous, dioecious ; branches at 38 45 with stem, subopposite, straight. 

 Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, shortly petiolate, sub-coriaceous, rounded at apex, wedge-shaped 

 at base, subopposite, shining and of a rich brown colour on upper face, paler beneath; veiny 

 delicate, flat or wavy at margins, spreading ; 1 2 in. in length by \ 1 in. in width ; petiole 

 1 i J in. in length. Flowers racemose with lanceolate bracts at base of pedicels, tetramerous 

 or pentamerous. 



