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Myrica.l myeicace.^ (Hutchinson). 571 



Berol 1012. M. ilkifolia, Biirnh f. Prodr. Cap. 31. M. quercifoUa, 

 vars, multiformis, microphjlla, hirsuta, ilicifolia and laiifolia, A. 

 ChevaLIx, 163-166, fig, 20. — Laitrus africana rninor^ etc.y Commclyn, 

 Sort, ii. 161, t 81 ; Bay, Dendr. 85, Coriotragematodendros 

 africana, Botryos, etc., PluJcenet, Almatheum, 65. 



South Africa: without precise locality, Burmannl ViUct\ Pappe\ Wallich \ 

 Roxhiirrjli ! Petit Thouavs ! Boivie ! Lehmann ! Poivin ! Vallktiit ! Masson I Mu,iai{- 

 Maire ! Harvey ! 



KravMl Phillips, 4295! WoUey-Bod, 2627! Bummer, 72! Worsddl\ Caledoa 



Div, ; Zwartberg Range, Zeyher, 3879 ! George Div. ; by the Nuakamma rivulet, 



Barchell, 5103! Uitenhage Div.; Addo, Brege, c! Vanstadens Berg, Zeyherl 



Algoa Bay, Zeyher, 749 ! Humansdorp Div. ; between Tvveefoutein and Essetibosch, 



Burchcll, 4827 1 north side of Kronime River, Burchcll, 4878 I Albany Div. ; 



hills near Grahamstown^ Bolus, 1274 ! Bowie, 495 ! eastern side of Zwartwater 



Poort, BurcheU, 3433 1 Komgha Div. ; grassy slopes near Keimouth, Flanagan, 

 2582! 



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14. M, conifera (Burm. f. Prodr. Cap. 31) ; a shrub or moderate- 

 sized tree j branches softly and shortly tomentose, glabrous or 

 glandular, lenticellate, leafy nearly their whole length ; leaves 

 oblanceolate or liuear-oblanceolate, long-attenuated into the petiole 

 at the acute base, subacutely triangular and niucronate at the apex, 

 2|-4| (usually about 4) in. long, ^-1 in. broad, rigidly chartaceous, 

 entire or rather distantly and coarsely sen\ate in the upper half or 

 two-thirds, closely reticulate and punctulate aboA^e, minutely glan- 

 dular below, shortly pubescent towards the base of the midrib ; 

 midrib prominent on both surfaces, narrow ; lateral nerves usually 

 more conspicuous above than below, 12-15 on each side of the 

 midrib, diverging at a fairly wide angle, usually 2-furcate ; veins 

 scarcely conspicuous ; petiole 3-4 lin. long, puberulous ; flow ers 

 dioecious or monoecious ; male spilces clustered or solitary, densely 

 flowered, more or less 1 in. long ; rhachis rather densely pubescent ; 

 bracts very broadly obovate, with an auricle on each side towards 

 the base, 1 lin. long and broad, submembranous, glandular on the 

 back towards the middle, ciliate ; stamens 4 or 5 ; filaments un- 

 equally connate in the lower half; anthers rounded, ^ lin. long, 

 minutely papillose ; female inflorescence densely flowered, clustered 

 or solitary, ^ in. long or less; rhachis tomentulose; bracts very 

 broadly triangular-ovate, subacute, f lin. long, 1 lin. broad, thinly 

 chartaceous, pubescent and glandular outside; bracteoles fleshy, 

 broadly obovate, ciliate, pubescent outside ; ovary pubescent ; styles 

 shortly connate at the base, slender, nearly 1 lin. long; fruits 

 ellipsoid-globose, 2\ lin. long, strongly warted. A. CJieval Monogr, 

 Myricac. 1 44, incL vars. torn e?ito8a, A. ChevaL, la nlslfolia, 

 A. Cheval, and glabra, A. Cheval le. 147-8; Hutchinson in 

 Brain, FL Troj). Afr, vi, ii. 314. J/. setJiiopica, Linn. Mant. 

 Alt. 278; EngL Jahrh. xxx. 291; J?. K Fries, Bhod.-Kongo- 

 Exjjed. 12. M, serrata, Lam. Encych ii. 593. M. ca;pensis, Hurt. 



