Myrica MYRICACE^ 33 



side only ; upper surface with ca few resinous points ; male spikes 

 4-6 mm. 1. ; stamens 2 or .'3. Cheval. tout. elf. 276. 



Locality in Jamaica and collector unknown. 



Leaves 2*5-3 cm. 1., '9-1 '3 cm. br. ; interuodes 1-3 mm. 1., with very 

 minute hairs, disks underneath numerous with yellow glands, lateral 

 nerves at an angle of G5-70^ from median, prominent underneath. Bracts 

 J:--5 mm. 1., -5 mm. br. We have not seen a specimen. 



3. M. cerifera L. S^k PI. 1024 (1753); lenticels small, not 

 very apparent ; leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-linear, long- 

 cuneate at base and attenuated into the petiole, entire or with a 

 few teeth near apex, with numerous pits on upper surface with 

 yellow resin; male spikes 820 mm. 1. ; stamens usually 4-6. 

 Urh. torn. c;t. 358; Cheval. torn. c'li. 261. M. microcarpa Grisch. 

 Joe. cif. (in part). 



Locality in the island unknown ; Lindsaij I Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto 

 Rico, Bahamas, Guadeloupe, Bermuda, southern United States. 



S}irub or small tree 6-10 ft. high. Twigs hairy or glabrous. Leaves 

 4-10 cm. 1., "8-1 "5 cm. br., adult usually glabrate, but velvety on median 

 nerve on upper surface and sometimes puberulous underneath ; pits 

 numerous below with yellow or reddish glands ; lateral nerves at angle of 

 50-60^ from median, not prominent underneath. Fruit small, globose, 

 3 mm. 1. and br. ; when ripe covered with waxy papillae. 



Yar. dubia Cheval. torn. cif. 265 (1902); leaves larger, 

 5-12 cm. 1., 1- barely 2 cm. br., lanceolate, generally with 3-5 

 pairs of large teeth in upper half ; surface almost glabrous, with 

 few glands. 



Locality in the island unknown ; Lindsay ! Florida. 



Family Y. JUGLANDACE^. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, imparipiunate ; stipules wanting. 

 Flowers mona'cious, male in catkins, female in erect terminal 

 spikes. Male flowers adnate to the bract. Stamens numerous. 

 Female flowers sessile on the rhachis. Perianth epigynous, with 

 4 teeth or lobes. Ovary 1 -celled ; style .short with 2 stigmatic 

 branches. Ovule solitary, erect from the base, orthotropous. 

 Fruit drupaceous ; exocarp fleshy or succulent, endocarp hard, 

 intruded at the base, dividing the fruit into 2 or 4 imperfect 

 cells. Seed solitary, without endosperm. Embryo of the same 

 shape as the seed, with superior radicle. 



Species 32 or 33, widely dispersed through the temperate 

 regions of the northern hemisphere, and in the tropics in the 

 mountains of xVsia, Central America and the West Indies. 



