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Synoptical and Specific Descriptions. 
glabrous, purplish-red, edible. Expanded flower 4 c.m. across, dull white. Along streams in Magenja da Costa (tropical), also occasionally through the Province 
and in Natal and Cape Colony. A fine tree, with a good fruit. For illustration see “Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” p. 254, Plate XCVII. fig. 1. 
FAMILY XLIII.— EBENACEzE. 
Flowers dioecious or rarely hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx gamosepalous, 3-6 lobed, often accrescent in fruit. Corolla gamopetalous, 3-6 lobed, lobes contorted in 
bud. Stamens almost sessile, usually several times as many as the corolla-lobes, in one or more rows ; in female flowers abortive, few or absent. Anthers introrse, lanceolate. 
Ovary superior, several-celled, in male flowers rudimentary; ovules pendulous, anatropous, solitary or in pairs, usually twice as many as the styles. Fruit coriaceous or 
more or less fleshy, sometimes edible ; seeds albuminous, homy. Hard-wooded unarmed trees, shrubs or shrublets, with exstipulate, alternate, opposite, sub-opposite or ternate, 
simple entire leaves, and axillary simple, racemose or paniculate inflorescence, and without milky juice. A tropical and sub tropical group of little forestal value. 
1 7 1. ROYENA. Flowers apparently hermaphrodite, often actually unisexual, or one sex weak. Calyx 5-fid or 5-partite, pubescent, sometimes enlarging after flowering. 
Corolla with an urceolate tube, and spreading 5-fid limb which is twisted in aestivation. Stamens 10, in 1 row, inserted on the base of the calyx-tube : filaments 
very short, anthers oblong or lanceolate, hairy. Ovary pubescent ; style branches 2-4 ; cells twice as many. Fruit globose or ovoid, pointed by the style, coriaceous 
or fleshy, indehiscent or splitting. An African genus of shrubs or small trees, well represented in South Africa, of which several species extend along the Lcbombos 
and through the M’Chopes, and one, R. pallens, Thun., is frequent in the inland parts of Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra. None of these are tree or of 
timber size; several share with Euclea the Vern. name, 4, 15, Magitamus or Returns, and one species is called, 4, Inthababane. Concerning several Royena-like 
trees, see under Diospyros. For illustrations of the species see “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” p. 256, Plates XCVIII., XCIX., and CIII. 
17 2. EUCLEA. Dioecious. Calyx 4-5 lobed, not accrescent. Corolla bell-shaped, 4-5 fid or lobed, twisted in bud. Male flower with 10-32 stamens inserted on the base of 
the corolla-tube, and having a rudimentary ovary ; female flower with no stamens, but a 4-celled, 4-ovuled, usually pubescent ovary, and 2-lobcd styles. Fruit 
globose, indehiscent, i-seeded. Evergreen trees or shrubs with alternate, sub-opposite, opposite or ternate, simple exstipulate leaves, and axillary racemes or panicles 
of small yellowish flowers. An African genus of shrubs or small trees, usually hard-wooded, and with very undecided characters. In Cape Colony there are at least 
15 species (see “Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” page 260, Plates CL, CIL, CIII., CIV.) ; several of these extend along the Lebombo range, and also along the sea 
dunes and through M’Chopes, and several similar if not identical species are present in Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra. They are of no forestal importance or 
value; and the Vern. flames overlap the species. Among these are, 4, Hlangula and Quetamunzi ; 10, Mlala or Mulalo ; 4, 15, Magitamus or Returns. Among 
species belonging to this Province not included in the “Forest Flora of Cape Colony” are the 2 following, transcribed from the “Flora of Tropical Africa,” viz.; — 
“ E. divinorum, Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 99. A shrub, nearly glabrous and somewhat glaucous; branches terete. Leaves opposite or sub-opposite, elliptical, narrowed 
more or less from the middle towards each end, especially towards the base, obtuse, coriaceous, glaucescent above, reddish and somewhat farinaceous beneath, 
i£- 2^ by in. ; veins inconspicuous; margins undulated ; petiole about \ inch long. Male flowers in crowded racemes or panicles, 10 or more together, 4-5 
merous, hemispherical ; cymes not more than ^ by J in., usually erect ; pedicels in. long, spreading, longer than the small caducous bracts. Calyx ^ in. long ; 
lobes short. Corolla deeply lobed; lobes rounded. Stamens 16; anthers oblong, hairy, longer than the glabrous filaments. Ovary rudimentary, represented by a 
bunch of hairs. Female plant unknown. Victoria Falls, Kirk. Occurs also at Delagoa Bay, south of the Tropic and in Basuto-land. 
“ E. fructuosa, Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 101. A small or arborescent shrub, with softly pubescent lawny terete branches. Leaves alternate or sub-opposite, obovate 
oblong, wedge-shaped at the base, coriaceous, quickly glabrescent or nitescent, i|-4^ by in. delicately reticulated; margins reflexed; petiole T Vs in. long, 
pubescent. Male plant unknown. Fruiting racemes or panicles ranging up to i-in. long, with about 20 fruits, pubescent ; pedicels short, thickened upward to the 
articulation with the calyx. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes deltoid, acute, small ; tube consolidated in fruit. Corolla sometimes marcesccnt, apparently 4-5 cleft ; lobes 
ovate. Fruits tawny-pubescent, ^-in. diam. i-celled. Seed solitary ; albumen uniform. Between Tete and the sea coast, Kirk I Luamc, mouth of the Zambesi, 
Kirk ! Dar Salam, Kirk / ” 
173. MABA. Dioecious. Calyx cup-shaped, increasing in size as the fruit advances, which at maturity resembles a small acorn set in its cup. Corolla short, 3-lobed ; lobes 
twisted to the left. Stamens in male flower 3-9, glabrous, hypogynous, separate; in the female flower abortive. Ovary in the male flower rudimentary, in the female 
flower 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled. Style 3-toothed. Fruit a dry or fleshy berry. Seeds albuminous. Hard-wooded trees with small alternate leaves and axillary 
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