104 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^. 



<5 Racemes f 1 in. in length, bearing 9 13 flowers, spreading, dark; pedicels slender 

 ^ in. in length, the lower ones the longer, alternate or opposite, patent; flowers \ ^in. 

 in length. Calyx short, 4-fid, with apiculate deltoid erect lobes. Corolla campannlata, 

 4-lobed; lobes \ \ depth of corolla, erect, oval. Stamens 12, free, 8 in one row and 4 

 interior and inserted lower at base of interior of corolla, included; anthers erect, with a 

 few hairs at top or glabrous, 2-celled, dehiscing laterally from apex. Ovary rudimentary ; 

 styles 12. 



9 Racemes | |in. in length, bearing usually 11 flowers, dark; glabrous or glandular; 

 pedicels ^ fa in. in length, patent, sub-opposite ; flower ^ in. in length, campanulate. 

 Calyx ^ in. in height with 4 or 5 deeply divided erect deltoid acuminate lobes, persistent. 

 Corolla campanulate, twice the height of the calyx, with 4 5 lobes divided more than half 

 the depth of the corolla. Stamens 0. Ovary ^in. in height by ^in. in thickness, conical, 

 glabrous, 4-cslled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 2. Fruit globose, \ in. in diameter, glabrous, 1-celled, 

 1-seeded; seed filling the cavity of the fruit, marked externally by 3 longitudinal lines; 

 albumen horny, not ruminated but with introversion of testa at apex ; embryo slightly 

 curved, tending to be incumbent. 



Abyssinian name of the fruit; Kellau. 



Abyssinia. Schimper ! i. n. 159, among hills, valleys and low places near Adoa. In 



fruit, 1 June 1837. 



ii. 1078. On mount Sina, near Adoa. In 5 flower, 13 November 



1838. 



ii. 1527, iii. 1919. Near Axus. In <J flower. 



913. Agrima, 6000ft. alt.; Legua, 5000ft. alt. 1852. 



80. 5500 6500ft. alt. October 1862. 



Quartin-Dillon and Petit. ! Scholoda. 



18. EUCLEA EACEMOSA, Linn. Syst. veg. edit. xui. p. 747. Cur. Murray (1774). 



E. foliis alternis vel oppositis, obovatis vel oblongo-obovatis, apice rotundatis, basi cuneatis, 

 breviter petiolatis ; cymis racemosis ; fioribus dicecis, 4- raro 5 6-meris ; corolla, profunde 

 lobatd; staminibus 12 18, in flore femineo 2 4 effcetis; stylis 2; ovario toto pubescenti vel 

 glabro, k-loculari. 



Jacq. Fragm. t. 1, f. 5, t. 63, f. 3 (18009); Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 219. n. 15 (1844). 



Padus foliis subrotundis, fructu racemoso, Burm. Afr. p. 238, t. 84, f. 1 (1739). 



Glabrous shrub 2| to 6 feet high, or small tree 18 feet high. Branches making 30 

 with stem, purplish. Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, coriaceous, alternate, subopposite, or 

 opposite, marked with obscure transverse veins, green on the upper surface, pale beneath, 

 margins somewhat reflexed, wavy or nearly flat, subsessile or shortly petiolate, rounded at 

 apex, cuneaje at base, J 2J in. in length by 1 J in. in width ; petioles ^ ^ in. in length. 

 Bracts narrow, at base of pedicels, solitary, linear-lanceolate. 



