Samolus | LXXVI, PRIMULACES. 637 
2. SAMOLUS Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 638. 
1, §. Valerandi L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 171 (1753) ; Oliv., d.c., 490. 
Loanpa.—On rocks and damp walls, between Praia de Penedo and 
Boa Vista, sparingly ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1858. No. 277. In damp 
gravelly places at the great represa, or artificial lake, near Quicuxe, 
sporadic ; fl. Oct. 1860 (seen previously in the same place in 1853 and 
1858). No. 2776. 
LXXVII. MYRSINE. 
1, MZESA Forsk. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 641. 
1, M. lanceolata Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. pp. evi. 66 (1775) ; 
Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 492. 
Var. golungensis. 
A small tree, 8 to 15 ft. high; branchlets and much-branched 
inflorescence pubescent with short spreading rufous hairs; leaves 
ovate or oval, cuspidate, obtuse at the base, 3 to 7} in. long by 
2 to 5 in. broad; petiole $ to 1? in. long; calyx 5-cleft; the 
lobes scarious-fimbriate on the margin, sparingly red-striate out- 
side ; corolla gamopetalous, rotate, 5-lobed; the segments obtuse, 
imbricate in estivation, spreading in a stellate manner at the 
time of flowering, rather fleshy ; stamens 5, opposite the corolla- 
segments and inserted at their base round the throat, exserted ; 
anthers broadly cordate, truncate at the apex, pale yellow with 
sulphur-coloured pollen or white when effete, 2-celled, dehiscing 
longitudinally ; ovary hemispherical-conical, subsessile, partly 
free ; style thick, short, central, crowned with a capitate-peltate, 
straight, obsoletely 2- to 4-lobed stigma ; fruit capsular. 
GoLunco ALtTo.—In primitive forests on the northern side of the 
mountains of Queta, not common ; fr. in July, fl. at end of Dec. 1855. 
No. 4795. 
The pubescence on the branchlets and inflorescence is like that on 
MM. palustris Hochst., but the foliage is considerably larger, and obtuse 
or rounded at the base of the blades; it sometimes approaches in 
shape that of J/. cordifolia Baker, l.c. I follow Baker, /.c., in taking 
a very wide view of the limits of this species ; but perhaps this should 
be considered distinct. 
2. M. angolensis Gilg in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin i. p. 72 (1895) 
HoviLia.—A small tree, with subscandent branches and white flowers. 
In the forest near the cataract of astream ; fl. 31 Oct. 1859. No. 4796. 
Flowers white ; fl. and young fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859, No. 4797. 
Bumpo.—No notes. Fl. No. 4798. 
3. M. Welwitschii Gilg, /.c. 
GoLtunGco ALTO.—A small tree, 8 to 12 ft. high, with the habit of a 
Rhamnus, oftener a shrub ; leaves deciduous, in shape like those of an 
Alnus ; flowers small, yellowish ; berries orange-coloured, as large as 
a small pea. In the thin forests of Cacarambola, not uncommon ; 
fl. May 1855, fr. Sept. 1855. No. 4794. An arborescent shrub, 
occasionally a small tree of 10 to 12 ft. with the aspect of a young 
alder; leaves sometimes deciduous sometimes evergreen; flowers 
white ; calyx bi-bracteolate, slightly lepidote-glandular, sub-campanu- 
late, 5-cleft, with obtuse ciliolate lobes ; corolla campanulate, milk- 
