MYRICACEAE. 



Determined by E. H. Wilson. 



._ \ MYRICA L. 



Myrica rubra Siebold & Zuccarini in Ahh. Akad. Miinch. IV. pt. 

 3, 230 {FL Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 106) (1846). — Bentham in Hooker's 

 Jour. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. VI. 115 (1854) ; Fl. Hongk. 322 (1861).— 

 Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jay. I. 454 (1875). — Skan in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. XXVI. 496 (pro parte) (1899). — Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. 

 For. Jap. II. t. 6, fig. 12-23 (1908). — Dunn & Tutcher in Keio Bull. 

 Misc. Inform, add. ser. X. 251 {Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912). — 

 Leveille, Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 281 (1914). 



Morella rubra Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 548 (1790). 



Myrica Nagi C. De CandoUe, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 151 (non Thunberg i) 



(1864). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 129 (1867); Prol. Fl. 



Jap. 293 (1867). — Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. XCIV. t. 5725 (1868). — Hance 



in Jour. Linn. Soc. XIII. 124 (1873). — Chevalier m Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. 



Cherbourg, XXXII. 198 {Monog. Myric. 114) (1901). 



Kiangsi: Kiukiang, foothills, alt. 300 m., August 1, 1907 (No. 

 1652; bush 3 m. tall). Chekiang: ''hills near Tangsi," March 

 190Q, F. N.Meyer (No. 228). Fokien: Dunn's Exped., April to 

 June 1905 (Hongk. Herb. 3462). Korean Archipelago : Quelpaert, 

 July 1907, U. Faurie (No. 1541); same locality, April 1908, 1911, 

 May 1908, July 1910, Taquet (Nos. 4703, 4704, 1402, 4821, 4426). 



This is a rare plant in Kiangsi; it is not recorded from farther west. On the 

 island of Yakushima off the extreme south of Japan it is an extremely common 

 fluviatile bush or small tree. In eastern China where it is much cultivated it is 

 known as the Yangmae. In Japan it is known as Yama-momo and under this 

 name it is figured in Banks, Icon. Select. Kaempf. t. 37 (1791). In southeastern 

 China the genus is represented by Myrica esculenta Hamilton (apud D. Don, 

 Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 56 [1825]. — Chevalier in Man. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 

 XXXII. 204 [Monog. Myric. 120] [1901-02]). Yunnan: Mengtsze, mountains, 

 alt. 1600-2300 m., A. Henry (Noa. 9015, 9015% 9015^ 9015^; tree 3-5 m. tall); 

 Szemao, mountains, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 9015^). The villose shoots and 

 petioles, the thinner leaves with prominent veins and the much larger and 

 panicled male inflorescence readily distinguish this species from M. rubra. 



^ The Myrica Nagi Thunberg (Fl. Jap. 76 [1784]) is Podocarpus nagi Makino. 



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