

Mi/rica.] MYBiCACE^ (Hutchinson). 563 



P Leaves with very few scattered glands or almost 



glabrous below : 

 Branchlets quite glabrous (8) ovata. 



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Branchlets finely puberulous (9) myrtifolia. 



Leaves narrowly tapered into a distinct petiole at the 

 base : 



Leaves linear or narrowly oblanceolate, entire or 

 rarely with a few teeth, -1-5 times as long as 

 broad : 



Branchlets greyish and minutely pubescent when 



dry 



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... (10) linearis. 



Branchlets black and glabrous or nearly so when 



dry (11) glabrissima. 



Leaves spathulate - oblanceolate, obscurely and 



remotely repand-dentate with 2-4 teeth on each 



side... (12) Zeyheri. 



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Leaves more or less oblaneeolatej distinctly toothed 

 or incised-lobate : 

 Leaves oak-like, deeply piunately lobed with the 

 lobes spreading at right angles and forming 



rather wide sinuses ... (13) quercifolia. 



Leaves rather rejmnd serrate ... ... ... (14) conifera. 



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"Leaves closely and rather deeply erenate with 



upward pointing teeth ... ... ... (15) incisa. 



1. M, cordifolia (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 1025) ; a much-branched shrub 

 3-4 ft. high ; branches deeply leafy, pubescent or pilose, sometimes 

 at jBrst quite tomentose ; leaves mostly imbricate, sessile, broadly 

 ovate or ovate-orbicular^ cordate at the base, usually mucronate 

 from a rounded or obtuse apex, 2-9 lin. long, 2|-6 lin. broad, rigidly 

 coriaceous, usually adpressed to the branch when dry, undulate- or 

 repand-dentate or denticulate, rarely subentiro, glabrous or some- 

 times glandular and slightly reticulate above, densely resinous- 

 glandular below^in the dry state often becoming deeply pitted below 

 on the collapse of the glands ; midrib usually distinct on both 

 surfaces, prominent below, thick at the base, gradually tapered to 

 the apex of the blade; lateral nerves spreading, mostly incon- 

 spicuous ; margins cartilaginous and slightly recurved ; flowers 

 dioecious ; male inflorescences axillary, usually much shorter than^ 

 rarely as long as, the leaves ; rhachis flexuous, glabrous ; bracts 

 solitary and below each flower, broadly ovate-triangular, obtuse, 

 about ^ lin. long, slightly keeled, membranous towards the margin 

 and shortly jagged-ciliate, otherwise glabrous; stamens 2; anthers 

 almost sessile at the apex of a short common filament, oblong- 

 globose, A lin. long, very minutely and closely pitted ; female inflores- 

 cence axillary, solitary, about 2 lin. long ; rhachis stout, slightly 

 glandular, hidden by the overlapping bracts ; bracts solitary below 

 each flower, suborbicular, about ^ lin, broad, submembranous, shortly 

 ciliate, otherwise glabrous ; hypogynous scales united for half their 

 length, -J lin. long, the free parts ovate, ciliate, fleshy, otherwise 

 glabrous ; ovary ovoid, covered with sessile glands ; style-branches 2, 



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