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69. Roytna Lucida. Thhg. (Black-bark; Zwartbast.) 

 — Branches and twigs erect. Leaves on short stalks, alternate, 

 ovate, entire, glossy, fringed. Pedicels and middle-nerv shaggy 

 below, the younger leaves silky. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 yellowish. Calyx hairy, 5-parted Corolla bell-shaped, 5 fid ; 

 /m& revolute. Stamens 10 ; styles 2. Berry 4-celled, globose, 

 leathery, covered by the Qx\\-AvgQdcalyx. Seeds 2 — 4. 



Height of stem from 10 to 12 feet; diameter from 6 to 12 inches. 

 Bark black, rather smooth, llie wood, which is hurd and tough, and of 

 a yellow tint with brownish stripes, when polished, is well adapted for 

 furnitm-e, tools, screws, &c., but chietiy used for wagoawoik. It is 

 called Omgugunga by the Kafirs. 



To be found in the woods of the Cape Swellendam and Uitenhage 

 districts. Fl. August— September. 



70. Royena Glabra. Lin. — Branches erect, slender, spread- 

 ing; twigs villose. Leaves lanceolate, acute, smooth, entire. 

 Flor>)ers stalked, axillary, white ; stalks shaggy, 1 — 5 flowered. 



Height from 4 to 5 feet ; breadth from 5 to 6 inches. Bark thin, 

 grey, smooth. Wood light, poroiis. Little used, except for fuel. 



Common on the north side of Table Mountain and similar places. 

 Fl. July. 



71. Royena Pvhescens. Willd. — Branchlets clothed with 

 adpressed hairs. Leaves lanceolate-obovate, blunt, revolute at the 

 margins, attenuated into a short petiole, leathery, smooth, pale, 

 and slightly downy below. L'lowers solitary, axillary, stalked ; 

 peduncles pubescent, shorter than the leaves. Bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, placed above the middle of the stalk. Calyx adnate, 

 deeply 5 cleft, outwardly silky ; sepals ovate, taper-pointed. 

 Corolla bell-shaped, 5 parted, externally hairy; styles 6 united at 

 base. Fruit leathery, 5, celled, downy, nearly globose. 



A large shrub or small tree, 6-8 feet high and 4-5 inches in girth. 

 Bark greyish-white, rough. Wood very close-grained, heavy and durable ; 

 takes a line polish; resembles Milkivood and furnishes a superior mate- 

 rial to the turner and wood engraver. 



Grows on grassy hills near the Van Staden's River, and in the Kraka- 

 kamma. Fl. May, June 



72. Euclea Pseudebenus. E. Meyer. (Cape Ebony.) — 

 Branches spreading, greyish-white, much crooked ; tivigs slender, 

 very leafy. Leaves alternate, linear, sharp-pointed, entire, 

 wrinkled, pale, smooth, tapering into a short petiole. Flowers 

 dioecious, male-ones racemose ; racemes few-flowered, their stalks 

 as long as the petioles ; ye'/?ia/e-o/^e5 solitary, axillary. Calyx T) 



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