638 LXXVII. MYRSINEA. [ Mesa 
white ; the limb erect, 5-cleft ; the lobes alternating with as many 
intruded folds; stamens mostly and typically 5, but not rarely 6 and 
very rarely 4, included, inserted on the base of the corolla ; anthers 
ovoid-cordate, yellow, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally ; ovary uni- 
locular ; placenta basal, free, comparatively large ; style rather short ; 
stigma obsoletely lobed ; berry pea-shaped, brick-red-orange, but little 
juicy, depressedly crowned with the remains of the calyx, 1-celled ; 
seeds several, impressed on the basal globular rather fleshy placenta, 
At the outskirts of forests and in thickets between the rivers Cate and 
Quiapoza in Sobato’ de Bumba ; fl. and fr. 23 Nov. 1855. No. 4792. 
A divaricately branched tree of 10 to 15 ft., with membranous obscurely 
green foliage and white flowers. At the outskirts of the primitive 
forest at Cacarambola ; fl. Feb. 1856. No. 4798. 
This species is very nearly related to WV. alnifolia Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 
p. 20, t. 129 (1864). 
2. MYRSINE L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 642. 
1. M. africana L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p.196 (1753); Baker in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 493. 
Var. subintegra Engl. Hochgebirgsflora p. 331 (1892). 
Huriia.—Anthers yellow. In the denser forests of the Monino 
country on the left bank of the river Monino; fl. end of Jan. 1860. 
No. 4802. Anthers dull blue or bright blue. In mountainous forests 
near the lake of Ivantila and Matas de Monino ; male fl. Feb. 1860. 
No. 4799. In wooded places in Matas de Monino between the Monino 
and the lake of Ivantila; female fl. end of Feb. and in April 1860. 
No. 4800. A shrub, 1 to 2 ft. high, with the habit of Buwus ; berries 
pruinose, purple. In the Monino forests ; fr. end of April and in May 
1860. No. 4801. 
This appears to be the typical form of the species. 
3. PATTARA Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 447 (1763). 
Embelia Burm. f. (1768); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
pp. 1240, 644. 
1. P. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 
A scandent shrub, in habit not unlike a Scutia; the adult stem 
sometimes spinous; branches and branchlets horizontal and sub- 
terete, glabrate or the latter very shortly puberulous and leafy ; 
leaves alternate, oval, more or less cuspidate at the apex, obtuse 
or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, flaccid and membranous 
or coriaceous, deep green and rather shining or glossy above, 
glaucescent-pallid and marked with slender and raised violet-red 
midrib and nerves beneath, entire repand or minutely denticulate 
on the margin, 2 to 4} in. long by 1 to 21 in. broad ; petiole } to 
3 in. long, usually spreading and often sinuous ; flowers herma- 
phrodite, pentamerous, ;); in. long, on rather longer or shorter 
slender glandular-puberulous pedicels, arranged in numerous 
approximated axillary or lateral spreading racemes about } in. 
long on the branchlets ; calyx hemispherical, 5-fid halfway, =’; in. 
in diameter, green, subsequently becoming purple, persistent, 
unchanged in fruit ; the lobes broadly ovate or deltoid, minutely 
glandular-ciliolate; corolla whitish-green; petals free, oblong, 
