504 MYRICACE^ (Hutchinson)- [Myrica, 



subfiliform, free to near the base, |-| lin. long, exserted from the 

 bracts ; fruits solitary or- in pairS; shortly stalked, globose, about 

 \ in. in diam., densely verrucose with a white waxy excretion. 

 Linn. Sijst Veg, xiv. 884 ; Thunh. Fl Gap, ed. SchulL 158 ; Noiw, 

 BiOiam, Traits, ii. 193 ; C. DC. in Ann, Sci. NaL 4c'''' ser. xviii. 25, /. 3, 



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Marlofh, FL S. Afr. i. 132, fig, 74, A (by error named M. qnercifolia), 

 and t. 23, fig, B. 3L rotitndifoUa, Salish. Frodr. 396. 3L cordi- 

 folia^ var. micro}^hyUa, A. Cheval, Z.c. \10.—~Alaternoides ilicis folio 

 crasso Jiirsuto, Walther, Sort. iii. t. 3. Gale capensis, ilicis, etc.y Petiver, 

 Mas. Peilv. 74. TitJiymali facie planta JEthiojAca, etc, Plukenet, 

 Almagest, 373; Ph/tog. t, ^19, fig- 7. Coriofragemafodendros ilicis 

 aculeatae folio, Pluhenet, Almatlieum, 65. Myrica foliis subcordatis 

 infegris sessilihus, J. Burm, Par, Afr, PL 2G3, L x.cviii. fig, 3. 



South Africa. : without precise locality, Masson I Thorn, 596 ! Villct I Cunning- 

 Imm, Burmann, Roxhurgh, Lehniann, Boivin ; Verreaux, Vitillard & JDeplanche, 



Z€yhei\ 463 ! Gillies ! Mund & Maire ! W, Brown ! 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; Lion's Head, Krauss ; Cape Flats, Zeyher ! Beh- 

 mann^ 2050 ! Fappe ! Camps Bay, BurchcU, 894 ! Alexander (^Prior) ! Phillips, 

 237 ! Worsdell \ sandy dunes near Cape Town, Bolus, 2939 ! Uitvlugt, Wolley- 

 Bod, 2626! sandy fiats near Simons Bay, Frazerl Houts Bay, SchlechteVj 965. 

 Caledon Div.; Genadendal, Yerveaux, Riversdale Div.; Stille Bay, Muir, 1761 

 Knysna Div. ; Baak Hill, near Plettenbergs Bay, Burckell, 5330 ! Uitenhage 

 Div. ; Zwai-tkops and Koega Rivers, Zeyher, 3880 1 mouth of the Zwartkops River, 

 Zeyher, 669 ! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1455 1 Bathurst Div. ; near 

 Port Alfred, Burchell, 3S18 ! East India Div. ; on dry downs along the sea coast 

 at East London, Galpin^ 5679 I 



This is the well-known ]Vax-herry hash of the southern coasts of the Cape ; 

 according to Marloth the plant is important in fixing the sand-dunes. 



2. M. Burmanni (E. Meyer ex C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 149) ; 



branchlets numerouSj crowded, fairly densely leafy, glabrous, when 

 older marked with a few scattered brown lenticels ; leaves oblong- 

 oblanceolate, rounded to a very small tip at the apex, obtuse or a 

 little narrowed at the base, 1-2 in. long, ^-|^ in. broad, rigidly 

 coriaceous, entire or with a few blunt incurved teeth towards the 

 apex, glabrous, punctate below from the collapsed glands ; midrib 



slightly depressed above, prominent below ; lateral ner^'es about 8 on 



each side of the midrib, visible below ; petiole | lin. long ; flowers 

 dioecious or monoecious ; spikes unisexual or the upper part male, the 

 lower female, very slender, axillary, solitary, from about one-third to 

 half as long as the leaves, with the glabrous and rather stout rhachis 

 clearly visible between the flowers ; male bracts very broadly ovate, 

 strongly concave inside, rounded at the apex, | lin. long, glabrous 

 outside, minutely ciliolate; stamens 4-5 ; anthers verruculose, I in. 

 long ; female bracts thinner than the male : scales rounded, cilio- 



late ; ovary small, glabrous ; style-arms divergent, flattened, acute 



I lin. long ; fruits ellipsoid-globose, about 3 lin. long, closely warted, 

 warts waxy. Brege, Zwei Pfi. Docnmente, 106 ; A, ChevaL Monogr. 

 Myricac. j5±. 



