638 LXXVII. MTESINE^. [McBsa 



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 Sobatb 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 M. alnifoUa Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 

 ,p. 20, t. 129 (1864). 



2. MYRSINE L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 642. 



1. M. afrieana 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 

 xjountry 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 Ivantfila 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 Buxus ; 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. PI. 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 4i in. long by 1 to 2\ in. broad ; petiole \ to 

 f 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, Jj- 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, 



