Samolus.l lxxviii. primulacej: (Oliver). 491 



Radical leaves obovate or elliptical, obtuse, narrowed into petiole ; cau- 

 line obovate or oblanceolate, more shortly petiolate. Flowers on slender 

 ascending or spreading pedicels, with a minnte bract near the middle, 

 in terminal lax racemes. 



Kortli Central. Bomou (B. Brown in Denkam and Clapperton, App.). 

 Vile liAnd. Abyssinia {Sckweinf. et Aschers. Enum. 273). 

 One of the most widely diffused Phanerogams. 



Order LXXIX. MYRSINEJE. (By J. O. Baker.) 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamo-dioRcious. Calyx mi- 

 nnte, campanulate, persistent, with 4-6 imbricate or valvate teeth, 

 entirely free from the calyx, except in Mcesa. Corolla usually monope- 

 talous, rotate, with as many segments as the calyx, in Emhelia polype- 

 talous. Stamens as many as the segments of the corolla and inserted 

 opposite to them at their base ; filaments subulate, long or short ; an- 

 thers 2-celled, with loculicidal dehiscence, often cuspidate with the 

 produced connective. Staminodia in the Tropical African genera. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with a free central placenta; ovules many or few; 

 style simple, short or produced ; stigma various. Fruit small, globose, 

 except in Mce^a 1 -seeded, with usually a firm endocarp and a thin 

 fleshy mesocarp. Seed with abundant uniform or ruminate albumen. 

 — Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing, usually glabrous ; leaves alter- 

 nate, exstipulate, simple, usually petioled, entire or toothed, often fur- 

 nished with copious black resinous dots or lines ; flowers small, 

 variously arranged, whitish or tinged with red, often dotted with 

 glands hke the leaves. 



An Order of 600 species, mainly restricted to the Tropical regions of both 

 Hemispheres ; represented in this Flora by a very small proportion of species. 



Ovary adnate to the calyx. Seeds many 1. IVLaESA. 



Ovary free from the calyx. Seed solitary. 



Flowers in axillary fascicles 2. Myesine. 



Flowers in racemes or panicles. 



Corolla gamopetalous, contorted 3. Ardisia. 



Corolla polypetalous, imbricate 4, Embelia. 



1. MJSSA, Forsk. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 641. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo-dioecious. Calyx campanulate ; 

 tube adnate to the ovary ; teeth 5, minute, deltoid^ persistent, imbri- 

 cate in bud. Corolla campanulate, with a short tube and 5 imbricated 

 roundish or deltoid segments. Stamens 5, very small, inserted in the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers globose. Ovary adnate to the calyx-tube except 

 at the top ; style short, cylindrical ; stigma capitate ; ovules numer- 

 ous, inserted on a turbinate placenta. Fruit small, globose, dry or 

 fleshy, tipped with the persistent style and stigma. Seeds minute, 

 angular, flattened at the top. — Erect or climbing trees or shrubs with 

 glabrous or pubescent branchlets, entire or serrated leaves, not rigidly 

 coriaceous in texture nor crowded near the tip of the branchlets and 



