314 CXXIV. MYRICACEH# (Hutchinson). [ Myrica. 
Mozamb, Distr. German East Africa: north-east of Lake Kivu, 10,000 tte 
Mildbraed, 1699; near Kissenye, 9000 ft., Mildbraed, 1362; Ninagongo, 
Fries, 1687, 16874. 
An example of this variety has not been seen. .Engler (in Mildbraed, lc.) 
quotes the following specimens under the species :—German East Africa : 
east of Lake Kivu, Mildbraed, 1088; Kissenye ; Ninagongo Voleano, 4650 ft., 
Mildbraed, 1344; near Kukaye in the Rugege forest, Mildbraed, 1052; near 
Butumbi on the Njarchase Mountains, Stuhlmann, 2177, 2215. 
11. M. conifera, Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 31. A moderate-sized 
tree; branches softly tomentulose, lenticellate, leafy nearly their 
full length. Leaves oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, long- 
attenuated into the petiole at the acute base, subacutely triangular 
and mucronate at the apex, 23-43 (mostly about 4) in. long, 3-1 in. 
broad, rigidly chartaceous, entire or rather distantly and coarsely 
serrate in the upper half or two-thirds, closely reticulate and punc- 
tulate above, minutely glandular below, shortly pubescent towards 
the base of the midrib ; midrib prominent on both surfaces, narrow ; 
lateral nerves mostly more conspicuous above than below, 12-15 on 
each side of the midrib, diverging at a fairly wide angle, mostly 
2-furcate ; veins scarcely conspicuous ; petiole 3-4 lin. long, puberu- 
lous. Flowers dicecious. Male spikes clustered or solitary, dense- 
flowered, more or less 1 in. long; rhachis rather densely pubescent ; 
bracts very broadly obovate, with an auricle on each side towards 
the base, 1 lin. long and broad, submembranous, glandular on the 
back towards the middle, ciliate; stamens 4 or 5; filaments un- 
equally connate in the lower half; anthers rounded, } lin. long, 
minutely papillose. Female inflorescences dense-flowered, clustered 
or solitary, 4 in. long or less; rhachis tomentulose ;_ bracts very 
broadly triangular-ovate, subacute, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, thinly 
chartaceous, pubescent and glandular outside; bracteoles fleshy, 
broadly obovate, ciliate, pubescent outside; ovary pubescent ; 
styles shortly connate at the base, slender, nearly 1 lin. long. Fruits 
ellipsoid-globose, 2} lin. long, strongly warted.—A. Cheval. Monogr. 
Myric. 146, incl. vars. tomentosa, A. Cheval., banksifolia, A. Cheval., 
glabra, A. Cheval., and integra, A. Cheval. l.c. 147-8. M. ethiopica, 
Linn. Mant. ii. 278; Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 291; Baum, Kunene-Samb. 
Exped. 219; R. E. Fries, Rhod.-Kongo Exped. 12. M. serrata, 
Lam. Encyel. ii. 593. M. capensis, Hort. ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 
2,173. M. natalensis, C. DC. in DC. Prodt. xvi. ii. 148 ; A. Cheval. 
].c. 149, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: between Kutue and Onschingue, on the Kuito 
River, 3600 ft., Baum, 748! - 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: banks of Luangwa River, Goetze, 1303. 
Nyasaland: Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 139 9! 235 3! 351 6 & @: 
Blantyre, Buchanan in Herb. Medley Wood, 6925 ¢ & @! Rhodesia: Island 
at Victoria Falls, Kirk 9! Fries, 53, 58a; Livingstone, north bank of the 
Zambesi, Rogers, 7454 ! 
Widely spread in South Africa, 
