Myrsine.} MYRSINE& (Harvey). 435 
§ Schweinf. in Verh. Berl. Ges. Erdk. xviii. (1891) 549. Buzxus 
dioica, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. 159. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Pappe! Thom, 296! 497! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Devils Peak, Wolley Dod, 2513! Kloof between 
the Lions Head and Table Mountain, Burchell, 246! Simons Bay, Wright! 
Caledon Div.; Bavaans Kloof, Drége / Swellendam Div. ; Zuurbrauk Mountain, 
600 ft., Galpin, 4316! Knysna Div.; Korata (Karratera) River, Drége ! 
Uitenhage Div.; + Zuurberg Range, Drege ! Albany Div.; mountains near 
Grahamstown, Zeyher, 215! MacOwan, 55! Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, Baur, 
873! Cathcart Div. ; between Windvogel Mountain and Zwart Kei River, 
Drége ! and without precise locality, Cooper, 233! 234! 
CENTRAL REGION: Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, MacOwzn, 55! Aberdeen 
Div.; Candeboo Mountains, Drége! Middelburg Div.; near Middelburg, 
Burchell, 2807 ! 
Katanari Reeion: Basuto Land, Cooper, 738! 2697! Traansvaal; Shilu- 
vane, Junod, 1269! mountains north of Blauw Bank, Nelson, 265 ! 
Eastern REGION : Griqualand East ; at the foot of Mount Currie, 5000 ft., 
Tyson, 1901! Natal; Tugela River, Gerrard, 1776! 1776 bis! near Van Reenen, 
Schlechter, 6999 ! 
A bush, 2-4 ft. high. Very variable in the size and somewhat in the shape of 
the leaves. Commonly the leaves are about } in. long and 3 lines wide; some- 
times half this size, and sometimes 1-14 in. long and % in, wide. 
Also in Tropical Africa, and from Arabia to Central China. 
2. M. gilliana (Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 76); glabrous; leaves 
narrow-oblong, tapering at the base into a short petiole, minutely 
recurved at the apex, subemarginate, coriaceous, veinless, dotted 
beneath, with subrecurved edges; tufts 3-5-flowered; pedicels 
angular, glabrous, longer than the petioles; calyx-teeth obtuse, 
ciliolate ; corolla-lobes ovate, acute, twice as long as the calyx and 
longer than the anthers; drupe ellipsoid, acute. Rapanea gilliana, 
Mez in Engl. Pflanzenr. Myrsin. 376, 
Coast Reaion: Humansdorp Div.; Gamtoos River, Gill! Uitenhage Div. ; 
sand-hills between the mouths of the Coega and Zwartkops Rivers, Zeyher, 554! 
3371! Port Elizabeth Div.; downs near Cape Recife, Zeyher, 754! shore near 
Port Elizabeth, Ecklon § Zeyher! by the Baakens River, Burchell, 4347 ! 
Well distinguished from M. melanophleos, R. Br., by its smaller leaves 
(14-2 in. long, 4-6 lines wide), the absence of obvious veins, the shorter petiole 
and the ovoid acute drupes, 
3. M. melanophleos (R. Br. Prodr. 533); leaves oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous, quite entire, tapering at the base into 
a longish petiole, finely penninerved and obscurely veined beneath, 
with subrecurved edges ; bracts ovate, subciliate ; tufts 3—4-flowered ; 
pedicels angular, glabrous, short ; calyx-teeth acute ; corolla twice 
as long as the ealyx, as long as the anthers, its lobes lanceolate ; 
drupe globose. DC. Prodr. viii. 97 ; Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 85, 
87, 185 (melanophlea). M. Samara, Roem. § Schult, Syst. iv. 511, 
M. venulosa, Spreng. Syst. i. 663. Sideroxylon melanophleos, Linn. 
Mant. 48, excl. syn.; Jaeg. Hort. Vind. t. 71. Reemeria melano- 
phlea, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 194. Rapanea melanophleos, 
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