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nea vel mascula. Flores masculi cum bractea 1, toro bracteolis 2-4 pro 

 quaquo bracteola staminibus 2-20. Stamina cum filameutis; antheree 

 biloculares apicali-laterali dehiscentes. Flos faemineus cum bractea 1, 

 bracteolis 1-2 paribus oppositis rarius numerosis, ovario sessile 1-loculare, 

 stylo breve vel uullo ramis 2 intus stigmatosis, ovulo 1 orthotropo cum 

 integmento uuico. Drupa globosa vel ovoidea extus papillosa, endocarpio 

 duro. Semen erectum, testa membranacea, exalbuminosum. Embryo 

 rectus, radicula supera. 



Genera 3, species circiter 50 maxime in regionibus tropicis et calidis in- 

 colas, sed genus Gale in regionibus temperatis vel frigidis incolum. In 

 Korea tantum species unica in Quelpaert sponte nascit. 



Myrica (non Dioscorides) (1) Linnaeus, Gen. PI. ed. 1, p. 302 no. 746 

 (1737), pro parte ; Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 1024 (1753), pro parte ; Genera PI. ed. 

 5, p. 449 no. 9S1 (1754), pro parte-G.ERTNER, Fruc. & Sem. PI. I p. 190 1. 

 37 fig. 7 (1788)-Jussieu, Gen. PI. p. 407 (1789), pro parte-GiSEKE, Pre- 

 lect, p. 580 (1792)-Moench, Method. I p. 362 (1794)-Ventenat, Tabl. Ill, 

 p. 557 (1799), pro parte- J. St. Hilaire, Exposit. II, p. 318 (1805), pro 

 parte-PERSOON, Syn. II p. 614 (1807), pro parte-ENDUCHER, Gen. PI. p. 

 271 no. 1839 (1836), pro parte-SpACH, Hist. XI, p. 260 (1842)-C. de Can- 

 dolle, Prodr. XVI pt. 2, p. 147 (1864), pro parte-B A iLLON, Hist. PI. VI, 

 p. 259 (1877), pro parte-BEXTHAM & Hookee, Gen. PI. Ill, p. 400 (1SS0), 

 pro parte-ScHNEiDER, Illus. Handb. I, p. 70 (1904) -Dode in Lecomte, Fl. 

 Gen. Indochine V p. 932 (1929). 



Syn. Gale (non Tournefort) Adanson, Fam. PL n, p. 345 (1763), pro 

 parte. 

 Morella Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. ed. 1, p. 548 (1790) ; ed. 2, p. 669 



(1793). 

 Faya Webb & Berthelot, Phyt. Can. Ill p. 272 (1836-50). 



Arbores vel frutices monoeci vel dioici. Folia simplicia biennia petio- 

 lata integra vel serrata exstipullata infra reginoso-punctata. Spica axil- 

 laris si monoeci flores fasminei parte superiore spicas positi. Stamina in 

 quoque flore masculo 2-20 cum filamentis. Flores fasminei cum bracteo- 

 lis 2-4 vel numerosis. Fructus drupaceus matura alba, nigra, sanguinea, 



(1) Myrica of Dioscokides is Tamarix. 



