XCIII. MYRICACE.E 471 
red. Drupe sessile, scaly, ovoid, J-| in., flesh red, stone wrinkled 
and pitted. (Fig. 151.) 
Simla, below 6000 ft., the Glen, &c. ; October-December, sometimes in the 
spring. — Himalaya and Khasia. — Malaya, China and Japan. 
The fruit commonly known as Kaiphal is eaten, and the bark is used in 
medicine. 
The Sweet Gale, M. Gale, is common in bogs and on wet moors in Britain. 
XCIV. CUPULIFER^E 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, undivided or rarely slightly 
lobed, usually toothed ; stipules soon falling off. Flowers small 
or minute, 1 -sexual, the male in catkins, the female in spikes, both 
sexes on the same tree. Male catkins usually cylindric and 
drooping ; female spikes cylindric or ovoid, usually erect at least 
when young. Male flowers : perianth membranous or none ; 
stamens 3-1 6, filaments free, sometimes minutely forked, anthers 
usually 2-celled. Female flowers : perianth none or tubula-r, more 
or less adnate to the ovary, the limb if present minute and 
toothed ; ovary 2- or 3-celled, cells not distinct until after fertili- 
sation, ovules 1-2 in each cell, all but one usually abortive ; styles 
as many as the cells, usually more or less united at the base^. 
Fruit a nut, the nuts either large and solitary or in small clusters 
