572 MYRiCACEiE (Hutchinson). [Mijrica. 



ex Stcud. Norn. ed. ii. 173. M. hanMsefoUa, Wcndl. Collect i. 70. 

 M. nakdensis, C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 148 ; A. CJicval I.e. U9. 



South Africa : without locality ; Brown ! Frazer I Harvey, 403 ! Banks iSc 



Solander ! Masson 1 



Coast Kegion : Worcester Div. ; banks of streams in Hex River Valley, Tyson, 

 755 ! Paiiil Div. ; Berg River, Alcjcander ! various localities, Biirchdl^ 40 I Ecklon, 

 42! Wovsdtin Fappel Wallichl Kolbe, 2478, partly! Wolhij-Dud, 2375! Bolus, 

 2938! Pitmmcr, 1473 1 Robertson ! Nelson ! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots 

 Holland, Pappe ! Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Swellendam, Boioie \ 

 Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Burchell, 8109! Schlechter, 7365! mountains near 

 Genadeudal, Buvcliell, 8621 ! Knysna Div. ; Vlugt Valley, Bolus, 2468 ! Knysna, 

 Bowle\ Uniondale Div. ; rocky hill near Haarlem, Burchell, 5026! Humansdorp 

 Div. ; Diep River, iWt/s, 2469 ! Uitenhage Div. ; various localities, Burchell, 4270! 

 Zeuher, 128! 3876! Dregel 3Iund\ Port Elizabeth Div. ; Krakakamma, Mac- 

 Owan, lOSO ! Bathurst Div.: mouth of the Kowie River, Atherstone\ Albany 

 Div. ; along the rivulet at Grahamstown, Burchell, 3554 ; bank of river south of 

 Signal Hill, Grahamstown, Galpin, 2921 ; Athrrstone, 18 ! MacOivan, 1407 ! 

 Stutterheim Div. ; Fort Cunninghame, 3000 ft., Sim, 2029 ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; Kentani district, Pegler, 883 ! East Griqualand ; 

 banks of the Umzimkulu River, Tijson, 2556 ; Natal ; Inanda, Wood, 985 1 near 

 Durban, Wood, 9956 I Friedenau Farm, Eudatls, 399 I Ifafa Valley, Rudatis, 1422 ! 

 and without precise locality, Gerrard, 103 1 1659 ! Gueinzius, 55 ! 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; near Barberton, Thorncroft, 620! 4353! near 

 Lydenburg, Wilms, 1353 ! Macamac, Burtt-Davy, 1454 ! 



Occurs also in Angola, East Africa, Nyasaland and Rhodesia. 





Mono 



leaflesSj covered with light grey bark ; branchlets short, glandular, 

 slightly villous with scattered hairs ; leaves lanceolate-oblong or 

 lanceolate-linear, rounded or obtuse at the apex, long wedge-shaped 

 at the base, 1-^-1 2" in. long, about l in. broad, deeply dentate, some- 

 times irregularly so, with 3-5 nerves on each side of the midrib, 



covered with little glands on the upper surface, scarcely reticulate, 

 reddish below with a great number of glands, furnished with a few 

 hairs on the nerves, the midrib very conspicuous, the lateral nerves 

 rather coaspicuous ; petiole U-2 lin. long, puberulous ; male inflores- 

 cences \~\ in. long, with a glabrous rhachis ; bracts ciliate, devoid 

 of glands ; stamens 4 ; filaments short ; anthers puberulous ; females 

 not known. Mijrica foVtis oUong'is, opposite shuudis, J. Burra. Bar. 

 AfnFl 262,/. 98,^^. 1. 



SorxH Africa : without definite locality, Bunnann (Ilerh, Ddessert). 

 Coast Region : Caledon Div. ; Zwartberg, Worsddl ! 



I have not seen the original of this species ; Chevalitr says it is exactly inter- 

 Eiediate between M. quercifoUa and M. conifera, and suggests that it may be a 

 hybrid from these two species. Mr. WorsdelFs specimen from the Zwartberg 

 agrees very well with the figure in Burniaun ; in this figure there are infructescences, 

 a fact npt mentioned by Chevalier iu his description, of which the above is a 

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