Pattara] lxxvii. myksine^e. 639 



obtuse at the apex, sessile, broad to the base, rather concave,, 

 alternating with the calxy-lobes, nearly valvate in aestivation 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 

 adnata 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. 



G-OLUNGO Alto. — In a rather elevated forest among the eastern 

 mountains of Queta, seen only in one spot ; fl.-bud and ripe fr. in the 

 middle of Deo. 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 1866. 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, 1^ to 4|- in. long 

 by f to 2f 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-oleft 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 li in. long on the branchlets ; pericarp somewhat fleshy ; 

 endocarp thinly crustaceous; seed spheroidal, about i in. in 

 diameter ; embryo central in the axis ; albumen horny, copious. 



GOLTJNGO Alto. — In the primitive forests of Sobato de Queta ; fr. 

 beginning of July 1856. No. 4806. 



This is nearly related to Pattara hilimandscharica (Gilg in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. xix., Beibl. 47, p. 46 ; 21 Aug. 1894), but it differs in the shape 

 of the leaves, the inf ructescence is laxer, the fruit larger, etc. 



The following No. is perhaps a new species of Pattara : — 



G-OLUNGO Alto. — A glabrous glossy shrub, as tall as a man ; 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 MyrtaceEe, 1 J to 3 in. long by f to 1J in. broad, entire, 



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