Pattara| LXXVII. MYRSINES. 639 
obtuse at the apex, sessile, broad to the base, rather concave, 
alternating with the calxy-lobes, nearly valvate in estivation but 
the margins very slightly overlapping, minutely glandular inside 
and on the margins, inserted on the calyx at the base of the 
ovary ; stamens 5, opposite to and shorter than the petals and 
adnate to them one-third up from the base, glabrous; anthers 
cordate, apiculate at the apex, introrse, erect, basifixed, 2-celled, 
dehiscing longitudinally, whitish ; disk obsolete or inconspicuous ; 
ovary sessile, ovoid-spherical, red, 1-celled, 1- or 2-ovuled; style 
filiform, curved at the apex; stigma papillose, fleshy, truncate ; 
drupe green when young, quite black when ripe, as large as and 
in shape like to a peppercorn or small pea, hard, one-celled, one- 
seeded, borne on the persistent calyx or its remains, mucronate 
at the apex with the hardened style or its broken base; epicarp: 
fleshy ; endocarp crustaceous ; seed white, covered all over with 
large yellow distant glands ; embryo transverse. 
Gotunco AutTo.—In a rather elevated forest amony the eastern 
mountains of Queta, seen only in one spot ; fl.-bud and ripe fr. in the 
middle of Dec. 1855. No. 4803. In the mountainous forests of 
central Queta ; young fr. beginning of July 1856. No. 4805. In the 
thickets of Queta Carengue ; fr. middle of August 1856. No. 4804. 
2. P. pellucida Hiern, sp. n. 
A climbing shrub, rather much-branched ; branches dark-ashy, 
glabrate, lenticellate, subterete, as well as the somewhat puberu- 
lous leafy striate branchlets spreading horizontally or even bent 
backwards ; leaves alternate, obovate-oval, rounded or subcuspi- 
date at the apex, obtuse or scarcely wedge-shaped at the base, 
glabrous, thinly coriaceous, but little shining, obscurely penni- 
nerved, pellucid-striate, apparently deciduous, 14 to 43 in. long 
by = to 22 in. broad, entire; petiole } to $ in. long; fruit 
drupaceous, glabrous, black-dotted, pea-shaped, } in. in diameter, 
borne at the base on the small puberulous 4-cleft persistent calyx 
or on its remains, mucronate at the apex with the hardened rather 
long obsoletely glandular style or with its broken base, one-seeded ; 
fruiting pedicels % to + in. long, obsoletely puberulous, rather 
slender, spreading, arranged in lax axillary or lateral racemes of 
about 1} in. long on the branchlets ; pericarp somewhat fleshy ; 
endocarp thinly crustaceous; seed spheroidal, about 4 in, in 
diameter ; embryo central in the axis; albumen horny, copious. 
GoLtuncgo ALto.—In the primitive forests of Sobato de Queta ; fr. 
beginning of July 1856. No. 4806. 
This is nearly related to Patiara hilimandscharica (Gilg in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xix., Beibl. 47, p. 45; 21 Aug. 1894), but it differs in the shape 
of the leaves, the infructescence is laxer, the fruit larger, etc. 
The following No. is perhaps a new species of Pattara :— 
GoLunGo ALTo.—A glabrous glossy shrub, as tall as aman; branches 
rather strict, terete, pallid ; branchlets slender, leafy ; leaves alternate, 
exstipulate, ovate, much and rather abruptly acuminate at the apex, 
rounded subtruncate or very obtuse at the base, papery, rather dry 
as is usual in Myrtacez, 1} to 3 in. long by % to i4 in. broad, entire, 
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