Samolus. | MyRSINE@ (Harvey). . 431 
2. S. porosus (Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 32); stems, from a 
horizontal rhizome, erect, much-branched, rigid ; branches very erect, 
rough with little raised dots; radical leaves few, obovate-spathulate, 
obtuse or subtruncate, tapering into a winged petiole; rameal leaves 
small, diminishing upwards, passing from linear to subulate, sessile ; 
flowers racemose ; pedicels from the axils of depauperated subulate 
leaves, ebracteolate;. calyx half .as long as the corolla, its lobes 
lanceolate, acuminate. Pax & Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenr. Primul. 
342. S. africanus, Burm. f. Prodr. Cap. 5% 8S. Valerandi, var. 
africanus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1,172. 8S. campanuloides, R. Br. ex 
Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 73. Campanula porosa, Thunb. Prodr. 
39. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Pappe! Thom, 816! Harvey, 217! Arm- 
strong! 
Coast RreGion: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Ebenezar, Drege! Cape Div.; Lion 
Mountain, Ecklon, 26! Chapman Bay, Wolley Dod, 1668! Raapenberg Viey, 
Wolley Dod, 322! Riversdale Div. ; by the Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6610! 
Mossel Bay Div.; between Duyker River and Gauritz River, Burchell, 6392! 
George Div. ; in a wood by the west bank of Kaymans River, Burchell, 5808 ! 
Uitenhage Div.; near Enon, Baur! Zeyher, 665! Port Elizabeth Div.; Port 
Elizabeth, Burchell, 4373! Drége! Bathurst Div.; at Kaffir Drift Military 
Post, Burchell, 3762! near Barville Park, Burchell, 4141! British Kaffraria, 
Cooper, 63! 
CENTRAL ReEGIon: Somerset Div. ; Somerset Hast, Bowker! 
Eastern RuGion: Pondoland; near the mouth of Umtentu River, Drége ! 
Natal; Durban, Wood, 1940! and in MacOwan, Herb, Austr.-Afr., 1498! Plant, 
38! 
Stems 1-2 ft. high or more, rigid and broom-like, naked except for the 
scattered subulate leaf-scales, Racemes ending the cord-like branches, 4-6 in. 
long, many-flowered. Corolla white, 3-4 lines long. 
The reference usually given for S. campanuloides is ‘‘R. Br. Prodr. 429 
(1810)”’, but such a name does not occur amongst the species enumerated in that 
place.—C,. H. W. 
OrpER LXXXII. MYRSINEZ. 
(By W. H. Harvey, with additions by C, H. Wricur.) 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or dicecious. Calyx inferior or in 
Masa slightly adnate at its base to the ovary, 4—6-fid or -partite ; 
lobes usually ciliate, valvate, contorted or imbricate, usually per- 
sistent. Corolla usually rotate, sometimes with 4~6 free petals, at 
others 4—6-lobed ; lobes contorted or imbricate, rarely valvate. 
Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and opposite them ; filaments 
usually short, adnate to the disk or corolla-tube ; anthers dorsifixed 
near the base, dehiscing longitudinally, rarely by pores, sometimes 
divided into superposed cells; staminodes 0 or one opposite each 
sinus of the corolla, rarely also opposite its lobes. Ovary superior or 
in Mesa slightly adnate to the calyx, 1-celled ; placenta free-central, 
often globose ; style short or long ; stigma simple, rarely obscurely 
