A small plantain with austere woolly scarlet fruit, bearing ripe seeds, was planted in this sacred grove, where trees of the most tropical genera grew mixed with the pine, birch, myrica, and Viburnum.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker
This shrub is nearly allied to our native myrica or Sweet Gale.
"Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs"
A. D. Webster