MYRICACEAE. 
Determined by E. H. Witson. 
MYRICA L. 
Myrica rubra Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Münch. IV. pt. 
3, 230 (Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 106) (1846). — Bentham in Hooker's 
Jour. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. VI. 115 (1854); Fl. Hongk. 322 (1861).— 
Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Pl. Jap. I. 454 (1875). — Skan in Jour. 
Linn. Soc. XXVI. 496 (pro parte) (1899). — Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. 
F or. Jap. II. t. 6, fig. 12-23 (1908). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. 
Misc. Inform. add. ser. X. 251 (Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912). — 
Léveillé, Fl. Kowy-Tchéou, 281 (1914). 
Morella rubra Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 548 (1790). 
Myrica Nagi C. De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 151 (non Thunberg !) 
(1864). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 129 (1867); Prol. Fl. 
Jap. 293 (1867). — Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. XCIV. t. 5725 (1868). — Hance 
in Jour. Linn. Soc. XIII. 124 (1873). — Chevalier in Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. 
Cherbourg, XXXII. 198 (Monog. Myric. 114) (1901). 
Kiangsi: Kiukiang, foothills, alt. 300 m., August 1, 1907 (No. 
1652; bush 3 m. tall). Chekiang: “hills near Tangsi,” March 
1906, P. N. Meyer (No. 228). Fokien: Dunn's Exped. April to 
June 1905 (Hongk. Herb. 3462). Korean Archipelago: Quelpaert, 
July 1907, U. Faurie (No. 1541); same locality, April 1908, 1911, 
May 1908, July 1910, Taquet (Nos. 4703, 4704, 1402, 4821, 4426). 
; Try is a rare plant in Kiangsi; it is not recorded from farther west. On the 
^ nd of Yakushima off the extreme south of Japan it is an extremely common 
zviatile bush or small tree. In eastern China where it is much cultivated it is 
Own as the Yangmae. In Japan it is known as Yama-momo and under this 
ze it is figured in Banks, Icon. Select. Kaempf. t. 37 (1791). In southeastern 
P the genus is represented by Myrica esculenta Hamilton (apud D. Don, 
Todr. Fl. Nepal. 56 [1825]. — Chevalier in Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 
al. 1415, 204 [Monog. Myric. 120] [901-02]. Yunnan: Mengtsze, mountains, 
Sza 000-2300 m., A. Henry (Nos. 9015, 9015*, 9015*, 90153; tree 3-5 m. tall); 
4430, mountains, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 9015*). The villose shoots and 
Petioles, the thinner leaves with prominent veins and the much larger and 
Panicled male inflorescence readily distinguish this species from M. rubra. 
* The Myrica Nagi Thunberg (Fl. Jap. 76 [1784]) is Podocarpus nagi Makino. 
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