— ———— ÁÓ— 9 —M o 
Myristica.] CXXVI. MYRISTICEEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 103 
i : re 
elongate-urceolate or ellipsoid, 4 in. long, 3-toothed ; bracteole Plone. P rait st ie 
apiculate; fem. urceolate; ovary stipitate strigose, stigma "^ p 8 seen no Anda- 
long, oblong, glabrous; “aril blood-red laciniate," Maingay.— h Wallich’s plant in 
man specimens, and Kurz’s description is quite at variance with es 798 B» fracta 
the scurfy tomentose inflorescence (see M. andamanica). Wallich’s 
maximo " is doubtful. 
2. P. laurifolia, Hook. f. § T. Fl. Ind. 163; Benen oe oe 
inflorescence, leaves 6-9 in. shortly petioled very oereee 19 30 air, male fl. 
-lanceolate obtuse or subacute glaucous beneath, nerves " mE ' axillar 
bracteolate tomentose densely crowded in a very s FL Sylv. t. 267. M. 
peduncle. Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv.1.191; ? Beddome 4. dh. DC. Le. 
diospyrifolia, Alph. DC. l.c. M. tomentosa, Thwaites, fid. Alph. 
, in, from 
Deccan PENINSULA; on the Western Ghats from Canara to MET MUN ft., 
the plains up to 5000 ft., Beddome, &c. CEYLON, Central Province, alt. 
Walker, &c. os thi ery 
Branches moderately stout. Leaves variable, shining above with nae deere be dnd 
pale brown or whitish beneath, base acute rounded or cunea lont or less; flowers 
Very faint ; petiole 1-13. Peduncle very stout indeed, à k^ n P ilkily pubescent, 
ensely crowded, sessile or stoutly pedicelled, nearly } ‘eal der lant than any of 
shortly 3-lobed,— Beddome's figure represents a much more s he latter loosely clustered 
the specimens I have seen, with slender petioles and pedicels t le diam., globose, apicu- 
on an almost obsolete peduncle. Fruit in Beddome’s figure 2} nm. lacerate lobes, nearly 
te, with a deep longitudinal furrow ; aril deeply cut into Thwaites (not H. & T.), 
enclosing the seed.— Alph. De Candolle gives Jf. foweston name of Thwaites, and 
as à synonym of M. diospyrifolia, but I do not find tha 
as the plant is glabrous, I suspect some error of citation. stout, nerves very faint. 
S ar. lanceolata ; leaves lanceolate 6 by 1 in., petiole very. , iiid 
=». India, Beddome. : : iole more slender, 
Var, zeylanica. leaves linear-oblong obtuse 7-8 by 22 ie, sym. 29, and in 
pedicels longer, M, ceylanica, Alph. DC. in Ann. Sc. 399 — Ceylon, Thwaites.— 
odr. xiv. 1.190, M. zeylanica, Thwaites Enum, 11 and her Ceylon form of the 
dome’s figure more resembles this than it does the othe 
Species, which is identical with the peninsular Indian. 
: branous 
3. M. andamanica, Hook. f.; glabrous, leaves petiolod m "pois very 
elliptic-oblong subacute not glaucous beneath, nerves the branches very 
slender, male flowers in sessile or peduncled ones "bed staminal column 
Shortly pedicelled, bracteole large, perianth lobose: . xot of Wall.). 
oblong obtuse. gar elliptica, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 282 (n 
ANDamay I ; b. Hort. Bot. Calcutta. al . Leaves almost 
anches slender, quite ghb on youngest shoots rustily, neg a acute, nerves 
wcMbranous, 3 4 in, diam., pale brown when dry on both mailo or on a thick 3-6 fid. 
pela dihg ; petiole 3-14 in, sender. Clusters of flowers sessi rianth quite glabrous 
uncle 4-4 in, long ; pedicel jin, stout, rather scurfy; pe but approaches 
“nd smooth, 4-4 in. diam — Apparently a very distinct species, 
malabarica. 7 Ri 
. ] abrous, 
bove malabarica, Lamk. in Act. Par. 178 sear oblong or elliptic. 
OWering branches slender, leaves 4-8 by 14-4 314 pair, male fl. in sub- 
: or, perianth glo- 
nicles bracteolate, peduncles aud pedicels ane Rumph. 1. 
986, anthers 10-15, fruit narrowly oblong pnbcace, de 1.195; Dalz. & 
185; Hook. f. T p] Ind.163; Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. S ah. Cat. 
Gibs, Bomb. yy. 4; Beddome Fi. Sylv. t. 269. ? M. med 6786 (hardly of 
ese) Cot H. f. & T). M. dactyloides, P oct Mal. iv. t. 5 
* : M. notha, Wall. Cat. 6787.— Rheede ` 
