Myrica.| CXXIV. MYRICACEM (Hutchinson). 318 
waxy.—Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 160; Volkens, Kilimandscharo, 296 
(figure); A. Cheval. Monogr. Myric. 143; Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 279, 
fig. K-M. _M. salieifolia, var.? Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. ii. 
349. M. kilimandscharica, var. macrophylla, Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 375. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 4000-5000 ft., Johnston, 
S & 9! Marangu, Volkens, 234a 9! 234b ¢! Usambara; Mbarama, 
inflorescence galled, Holst, 2486! Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 9005 ¢! 9006 (galled) ! 
Uluguru Mountains, Goetze, 229?! Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains ; Ussangu, 
Goetze, 1247! and without precise locality, Busse, 196 ¢! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kirunga Mount, Kassner, 3193 6 ! 
10. M. salicifolia, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 277. A 
tall tree or shrub; branchlets covered with dark-coloured bark, 
with very few lenticels, puberulous-glandular when young, at length 
glabrous. Leaves petiolate, oblong, lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 
obtuse, mostly somewhat rounded to a subacute unequal-sided 
base, 2-5 in. long, ?-23 in. broad, undulate or dentate-serrate in the 
upper half or two-thirds, thinly chartaceous, with small golden 
glands on both surfaces, more densely glandular below, otherwise . 
glabrous; midrib flat above, prominent below; lateral nerves 
9-12 on each side of the midrib, spreading from the midrib at a wide 
angle, slender, slightly prominent on both surfaces, many of them 
prominently furcate about half-way towards the margin; veins 
delicate and very faint ; petiole }-3 in. long, puberulous-glandular.—— 
Flowers dioecious. Male spikes often crowded or conglomerate, 
about as long as or often rather longer than the petiole, very densely 
flowered; rhachis yellowish -tomentose; bract subtending each 
flower solitary, triangular-ovate, obtuse, 14 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. 
broad, pubescent and glandular outside and on the margin ; stamens 
8-12; anthers 4 lin. broad, with short filaments, minutely papillose. 
emale spikes much shorter than the petiole ; bracts semiorbicular, 
1 lin. broad at the base, ciliate and with a few sessile glands outside, 
Submembranous ; hypogynous scales 3, transversely oblong or 
suborbicular, fleshy, pilose in the upper part; ovary pilose ; styles 
fairly stout, free to the base, } lin. long. Infructescence as long or 
up to twice as long as the petiole ; fruits crowded, ellipsoid-globose, 
about 2 lin. in diam., warted, the warts covered with a white flaky 
wax-like substance.—C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 150; Engl. Hoch- 
Sebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 188 and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 160; A. Cheval. Monogr. 
Myric. 140, partly. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: in valleys of the Haramat district, Schimper, 1093 ! 
mountains near Endschedeap, Schimper, 1135! near Genausa in the Semen 
province, Schimper, 1327! on the Ghaba river, Steudner, 1356! and without 
ee locality, Schimper, 18! Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 97! Anadehr, Schimper, 
' i 
., Var. subalpina, Engl. in Mildbr. Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 
i. 179. A shrub up to 6 ft. high. Leaves smaller than in the type, 1}-1} in. 
long, 4-2 in. broad, entire or serrate towards the apex ; petiole 13-2 lin. long. 
RK. E. Fries, Rhod.-Kongo Exped. i. 12, 
