638 Lxxvii. MYEsiNE^. [Jlcesa 



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 Gate 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. 4793. 



This species is very nearly related to JI. abiifolia'B.a.rv. Thes. Cap. ii. 

 p. 20, t. 129 (1864). 



2. MYRSINE L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 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). 



HuiLLA.— 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 Ivantala and Matas de Monino ; male fl. Feb. 1860. 

 No. 4799. In wooded places in Matas de Monino between the Monino 

 and the lake of Ivantala ; female fl. end of Feb. and in April 1860. 

 No. 4800. A shrub, 1 to 2 ft. high, with the habit of Buxus ; berries 

 pruinose, purple. In the Monino forests ; fr. end of April and in May 

 1860. No. 4801. 



This apjjears to be the typical form of the species. 



3. PATTARA Adans. Fam. PL ii. p. 447 (1763). 



Emhelia 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 brancblets 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 coi'iaceous, deep green and rather shining or glossy above, 

 glaucescent-paUid 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 2} in. broad ; petiole \ to 

 1^ in. long, usually spreading and often sinuous ; flowers herma- 

 phrodite, pentamerous, y\j- 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 brancblets ; calyx hemispherical, 5 -fid halfway, y\- in. 

 in diameter, groen, subsequently becoming purple, persistent, 

 unchanged in fruit ; the lobes broadly ovate or deltoid, minutely 

 glandulai'-ciliolate ; corolla whitish-green ; petals free, oblong. 



