934 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
found very plentifully in the provinces of Bantam and Buitenzorq in Batavia, 
at an elevation of from 2000 ft. to 3000 ft.; but in the East of Java it is 
very rare, if not totally wanting. Noronha first described this tree in the 
Act. Soc. Batav.; but he had not the least suspicion that it belonged to the 
genus Liquiddmbar Linn. Sprengel imagined that this tree was the same as 
our Araucaria excélsa; an error which was detected by the description and 
figure of Blume, as given above. 
Orver LXXIV. MYRICA‘CEZ. 
Orv. Cuan. Flowers disposed in unisexual catkins, each scale having a 
flower in its axil.— Male flowers having the perianth composed of 2 scale- 
formed pieces, four free stamens.— Female flowers with the perianth en- 
larging after florescence, each composed of 3—6 small scales. Ovarium 
simple, free. Stigmas 2, filiform. Drape globose, dryish when ripe, con- 
taining a bony valveless nut. Albumen none or fleshy. (G. Don.) ; 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous or evergreen ; entire or 
pinnatifidly toothed. — Shrubs; natives of Europe, Asia, and North and 
South America. The genera in British gardens are two, which are thus 
contradistinguished : — 
Myri'ca. Flowers dicecious. Fruit resembling a berry. 
Compro‘nr4. Flowers monecious. Fruit hard, shining. 
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Genus I. 
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MYRICA L. Tuas Canpieperry Myris. Lin Syst. Dice'cia 
Tetrandria. 
Identification, Lin. Gen., 518.; Eng. Fl., 4. p. 238.; N. Du Ham., 2. p. 189. 
Synonymes. Galé, Fr.; Wachsstrauch, Ger. ; Mirica, Ital. 
Derivation. From myro, to flow ; the plants being found on the banks of rivers. 
Gen. Char., &c. Male flowers in cylindrical sessile catkins. Each flowe- 
consists of 4, rarely more, stamens; these are inserted at the base of a 
bractea. Bracteas extending beyond the stamens, loosely imbricated.— 
Female flowers in ovate sessile catkins, with closely imbricate bracteas ; 
one brattea attends 2 flowers. Each flower consists of a calyx of 2—4 
very minute scales; an ovary, to which the scales adhere ; a short style; 
and two long thread-shaped stigmas. Curpel involucrated by the adherent, 
more or less fleshy, enlarged calyx, and so more or less resembling a berry. 
(G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous or evergreen ; more or less 
serrated ; besprinkled with resinous dots, as are the scales of the buds and 
the surface of the fruit, which yield, when rubbed, an aromatic odour. 
Flowers in axillary catkins, greenish white, expanding early in the year.— 
Shrubs, natives of Europe and North America. They are of low growth, 
and generally require a moist peaty soil, in which they are propagated by 
layers, suckers, or by division of the plant. The American species is 
sometimes propagated by seeds, which should be sown in autumn, as soon 
after they are received from America as possible; for, if kept out of the 
ground till spring, they will not come up till the spring following. 
21. M. Gate L. The Sweet Gale Candleberry Myrtle, Sweet Willow, or 
Dutch Myrtle. 
Izentyication, Lin. Sp. Pl., 1453.; Eng. Flor., 4. p. 239.; Fl. Hibern., p. 257. 
