814 cxxiv. MYRicACEjE (HutchinRon). [Myrica. 



Mozamb. Distr. Grerman East Africa : north-east of Lake Kivu, 10,000 ft., 

 Mildhraed, 1699 ; near Kissenyc, 9000 ft., Mildbraed, 1302 ; Ninagongo, 

 Fries, 1687, 1687a. 



An example of this variety has not been seen. Engler (in Mildhraed, I.e.) 

 quotes the following specimens under the species -.—German East Africa : 

 oa.«t of Lake Kivu, Mildhraed, 1088 ; Kissenye ; Ninagongo Volcano, 4650 ft., 

 Mildhraed, 1.S44 ; near Kukaye in the Rugege forest, MUdhraed, 1052 ; near 

 Butumbi on the Njarchase Mountains, Stuhlmann. 2177, 2218. 



11. M. conifera, Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 31. A moderate-sized 

 tree ; branches softly tomentulose, lenticellate, leafy nearly their 

 full len^h. Leaves oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, long- 

 attenuated into the petiole at the acute base, subacutely triangular 

 and mucronate at the apex, 2J-4J (mostly about 4) in. long, J-1 in. 

 broad, rigidly chartaceous, entire or rather distantly and coarsely 

 serrate in the upper half or two-thirds, closely reticulate and punc- 

 tulate above, minutely glandular below, shortly pubescent towards 

 the base of the midrib ; midrib prominent on both surfaces, narrow ; 

 lateral nerves mostly more conspicuous above than below, 12-15 on 

 each side of the midrib, diverging at a fairly wide angle, mostly 

 2-furcate ; veins scarcely conspicuous ; petiole 3-4 lin. long, puberu- 

 lous. Flowers dioecious. Male spikes clustered or solitary, dense- 

 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, -J- lin. long, 

 minutely papillose. Female inflorescences dense-flowered, clustered 

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

 broadly triangular-ovate, subacute, § 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, 2J lin. long, strongly warted. — A. Cheval. Monogr. 

 Myric. 146, incl. vars. tomentosa, A. Cheval., hanksifolia, A. Cheval., 

 fllabra, A. Cheval., and Integra, A. Cheval. I.e. 147-8. M. wtJiiopica, 

 Linn. Mant. ii. 278 ; Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 291 ; Baum, Kunene-Samb. 

 Exped. 219 ; R. E. Fries, Rhod.-Kongo Exped. 12. M. serrata, 

 Lam. Encycl, ii. 593. M. capensis, Hort. ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 

 2, 173. M. Tiatalensis, C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 148 ; A. Cheval. 

 I.e. 149. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : between Kutue and Onschingue. on the Kuito 

 River, 3()0() ft., Bauyn, 748 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : banks of Luangwa River, Gocfzc, 1303. 

 Nyasaland : Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 130 9 ! 235 S\ 351 i & 9 ! 

 Blantyre, Buchanan in Herh. Medley Wood, 6925 cf & 9 ! Rhodesia : Island 

 at Victoria Falls, Kirh 9 ! Frlex, 53, 53a ; Livingstone, north bank of tlie 

 Zambesi, Rogers, 7454 ! 



Widely spread in South Africa. 



