Tab. 5727. 



MYRICA Nagi. 



Yangmae Fruit of China, and Yamamo-moki of Japan. 



Nat. Ord. Myeicace^. — Mokcecia Tei-octandbia. 



Gen. Char. Flores mono-dioici. Masc.: Amenta filiformia. Bractea- 

 1-florae, 2-bracteolatas. Stamina 2-8, filamentis liberis v. inter se connatis ; 

 antherce 2-loculares. I\em. : Amenta ovata v. cylindrica. Bractea l-flora», 

 2-bracteolatfe. Squamulce hypogyna*, cum ovarii basi concrescentes. Ova- 

 rium 1-loculare; stylus brevissimus, stigmatibus 2 elongatis. Ovulum 1, 

 basilare, ortbotropum. Drupa 1-sperma. Semen erectum ; embryo exal- 

 buminosus, antitropus. — Arbores, frutices et arbuscula 3 . Folia al tenia, in- 

 tegra serrata v. laciniata, rarias pinnatijida, 



Mtrtca (§ Gale) Nagi ; foliis e basi longe cuneato-lanceolatis acutis ob- 

 tusisve integerrimis v. supra medium serratis coriaceis, amentis masc. 

 simpliciusculis, fl. masc. bractea ovato-orbiculata obtusa, bracteolis 2-4 

 ovatis, staminibus ad 6, filamentis brevibus liberis, ovario papilloso, 

 drupa globosa dense papillosa. 



Myeica Nagi. Thunh. Fl, Jap. p. 76. Cat. DC. Prodr. t. 16. pt. 2. 157. 



Myeica Nagi. Sieb. et Zucc. Fam. Nat.fasc. 2. p. 106. 



Myrica integrifolia. Boxb. Fl, Ind. v. 3. p. 765. Wight, Ic. t. 761. Cas. 

 DC. Prodr. I. c. 



The interesting Chinese fruit here figured was sent to me 

 by James Bateman, Esq., F.R.S., of Biddulph Grange, in 

 whose stove at Knypersley it ripened in June of the present 

 year. The male flowers are figured from native specimens. 

 The Myrica Nagi is a very commonly cultivated tree in China 

 and Japan, and' is much esteemed for its subacid fruits, which 

 are eaten by natives and Europeans, both raw and cooked. 

 I can find no difference between it and the M. integrifolia of 

 Roxb., which, though described as tetrandrous in Candolle's 

 ' Prodromus,' is certainly hexandrons to octandrous in speci- 

 mens that I have examined. 



Myrica integrifolia is a very common native bush or tree in 

 the mountainous parts of Bengal and the eastern peninsula 

 of India, and especially in Silhet, where it is called Sophee, 



SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1868. 



