566 MYRiGACEiE (Hutcliinson). [Myrica. 



glands and long scattered spreading hairs ; bracts solitary, lanceolate, 

 about If lin. long, glandular, ciliate ; hypogynous scales 3, ovate- 

 triangular, subacute, keeled, ^ lin. long, long-ciliate, coriaceous; 

 ovary ovoid, densely -svarted ; styles longer than the bracts, free to 

 the base ; fruits subglobose, 2^-3 lin. in diam., very densely warted. 

 a BO. in Da Prodr. xvi. ii, 150 ; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. 

 Afr. Phil Soc. xiv. 320 ; A, Cheval 3Ionogr. 3hjric, 158. 



. SotJTH Africa: without precise locality, Harvey I Desmaretl Bergius, Mvnd d: 

 Maire, Villet, ?, Hooker, 414 cf! 



Coast Region: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, BurcJiell, 618 ! WorsthlV. Cooj}tT, 

 3484! Galj»{n, 4583, ?I 4584! above Simons Town, BoUz, 4948, <?! between 

 Table Mountain and Devils Mountain, Pax>pe\ Mnizenberg, Phillips, 1699! 

 Swellendam Div. ; Tradouw Mountains, Bowie \ Zuurbraak Mountain, 3000 ft., 

 Galpin, 4582! Humansdorp Div.; Zitzikama, 500 ft., Galpin, 4581 partljM (in 

 Nat. Herb, Pretor^ia) I 



. 5. M. elliptica (A. Cheval. Monogr. Myricac. 166, t. viii. C, 



figs. 1-8 ancl 10); a shrub 1^ ft. high; branches villous for some 

 time with long weak pale yellow hairs, rather densely leafy to 

 the base; leaves oblong-elliptic or ovate-elliptic, rounded or trun- 

 cate at the base, rounded in outline at the apex but with an acute 

 terminal tooth ; those on the older branchlets about i in. long and 

 ^ in. broadj on the younger branchlets about 1 in. long and |-2- in, 

 broad, rather acutely crenate-serrate, conspicuously nerved, rigidly 

 chartaceous, pilose mainly on both sides of the midrib ; lateral nerves 

 about 9 on each side of the midrib, spreading from it at a wide 

 angle, conspicuous below ; veins not visible ; petiole 1-1 J lin. long, 

 sli^^ggy'Pilose ; flowers (according to Chevalier) dioecious ; male 

 spikes short, ovoid, 21 lin. long ; bracts ovate, rounded at the apex, 

 ciliolate ; stamens 4, anthers nearly sessile ; female flowers and fruits 



not known. 



South Africa : T^ithout precise locality, Burmmn {Ilerh. Ddessert). 

 ■ Coast Region : George Div. ; Cradock Berg, near George, BurcheJl, 5903 ! 



6. M. kraussiana (Buching. ex Krauss in Flora, 1845, 89); 



branches fairly densely leafy, subsiDij^le, angular or ribbed, U-2 lin. 

 thick, conspicuously lenticellate in the lower part, rather densely 

 glandular ; leaves subsessile, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded at 

 both ends, 1-1 1 in, long, |-1 in. broad, entire or very slightly dentate 

 towards the apex, very rigidly and thickly coriaceous, more densely 

 glandular above than below; midrib fairly broad and slightly 

 prominent below; lateral nerves 7-11 on each side of the midrib, 

 spreading, forked towards the margin, nearly equally distinct on 

 both surfaces ; flowers probably dioecious, neither sex seen ; male 

 spikes (according to Krauss) axillary, solitary, sessile, oblong, one- 

 third to half as long as the leaves; bracts broadly triangular^ 

 spreading, glabrous, ciliolate; stamens 4, anthers subsessile ; in- 

 fructescences axillary, solitary, 2 in. long; rhachis stout, about 

 f hn. thick, ribbed when drv, \erv denselv covered with small 



