Myrica.] cxxiv. myricace;e (HutchinRon). 313 



waxy.— Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. IGO ; Volkens, Kiliniandscharo, 29G 

 (figure) ; A. Cheval. Monogr. Myric. 143 ; Engl. .lahrb. xlv. 279, 

 fig. K-M. M. saiicifolia, var. ? Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. ii. 

 349. M. kilimandscharica, var. macrophyUa. Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 37."). 



Motamb. Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 4000-r)(HX) ft., .Jolvstov, 

 <? & 9 ! Maranjrn, Volkens, 2'Ma ?! 2'Mh d" ! Usumhnni ; Mlmrainn, 

 inflorosponce ^alh-d, Ifoist, 24H() ! Kwa Mwhiiza, Hoist, <)0(»r> y ! 'KKJO (^'all.d) ! 

 Uluguru Mountains, (loitzc, 22t) $ ! Kinya (Livingstone) MountainH ; Unsanfrn, 

 Clot'tze, 1247 ! an<l witlioiit |)reeise locality, Bussc, I'.Kio ! 



South Central. Uclgian C^ongo : Kirnnga Mounf, KcUtncr. 3I9.'{ c^ ! 



10. M. saiicifolia, Ilor/isl. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 277. A 

 tall tree or shrub ; branchlets covered with dark-coloured bark, 

 with very few lenticels, puberulous-glandular when young, at length 

 glabrous. Leaves petiolate, oblong, lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 

 obtuse, mostly somewhat rounded to a subacute unequal-sided 

 base, 2-5 in. long, |-2|- in. broad, undulate or dentate-serrate in the 

 upper half or two-thirds, thinly chartaceous, with small golden 

 glands on both surfaces, more densely glandular below, otherwise 

 glabrous ; midrib flat above, prominent below ; lateral nerves 

 9-12 on each side of the midrib, spreading from the midrib at a wide 

 angle, slender, slightly prominent on both surfaces, many of them 

 prominently furcate about half-way towards the margin ; veins 

 delicate and very faint ; petiole J-J in. long, puberulous-glandular. 

 Flowers dioecious. Male spikes often crowded or conglomerate, 

 about as long as or often rather longer than the petiole, very densely 

 flowered; rhachis yellowish -tomentose : bract subtending each 

 flower solitary, triangular-ovate, obtuse. IJ lin. long, nearly 1 lin. 

 broad, pubescent and glandular outside and on the margin ; stamens 

 8-12 ; anthers J lin. broad, wnth short filaments, minutely papillose. 

 Female spikes much shorter than the petiole ; bracts semiorbicular, 

 1 lin. broad at the base, ciliate and with a few sessile glands outside. 

 Rubmembranous : hypogynous scales 3, transversely oblong or 

 Ruborbicular, fleshy, pilose in the upper part ; ovary pilose ; styles 

 fairly stout, free to the base, J lin. long. Infructescence as long or 

 up to twice as long as the petiole ; fruits crowded. ellipsoid-globos(\ 

 about 2 lin. in diam., warted, the warts covered with a white flaky 

 wax-like substance. - C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 150 ; Engl. Hoch- 

 gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 188 and Pfl. Ost-Afr. V. IbO : A. Cheval. Monogr. 

 Myric. 140, partly. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : in valleys of tl\c Haramat district, Srhimper, Wm ! 

 mountain.^ near Ehdsehedcap, Schimpcr, 11 .'{;">! n(>ar (Icnausa in the S<Mm'n 

 province, Schiynper, i:i27 ! on the (Ihaba river, SUudmr, \\\rA\\ and witluuit 

 precise locality, .SV/?im7;r/-, 18 ! QufulinDillon d- VdH, 'M ! Ana-d.-ln. Srinniper, 

 J)14 ! 



Var. .fubnlpina, Engl, in Mildbr. Wi.ss. Krgehn. Deutsch. Zentr -Afr. K\|h(1. 

 ii. I7!>. A shrub u}) to ft. high. 1^'aves smaller than in the ty|X', l^-M m. 

 long, \-^ in. broad, entire or serrate towards the ai)cx ; |)etiole U-2 lin. h)Mg. 

 — H- ''^. Fries, Rhod. -Kongo Kxped. i. 12. 



