106 CXXVI. MYRISTICE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Myristica. 
anther-cells. Alph. DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 203. M. Horsfieldii, Blume ? Wall 
Cat. 6806, in part. 
Matacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1284). SINGAPORE, Wallich, Lobb, Maingay 
(M. crassifolia, Kew Distrib. 1283). 
A tall tree, branches robust. Leaves 2-3} in. broad, very coriaceous, dull brown 
above, red brown beneath, nerves spreading; petiole 1-1} in., often stout. „Male 
panicles axillary and from the axils of fallen leaves, branched from the base which is 
often as thick as the petiole, branches stout ; flowers pedicelled, thickly coriaceous, 1n 
globose clusters of 8-10, 3-4-cleft; anthers 10-12 (24-27 cells ?, Maingay), forming 
a low obconic 3-gonous fleshy column of firmly united cells. Female panicles short ; 
fruit (unripe) very shortly and stoutly pedicelled.— This species, which is probably a 
variety of M. tomentosa, was founded on the young fruit and leaves of one of a mixed 
lot of species comprised under Wallieh's No. 6806, of which he says “ forsan due 
species mixtz." There are two sheets of specimens under this number ; one contains 
the fruiting specimens taken up as Wallichii, together with a panicle of male fl. of 
M. crassifolia; the other contains scraps of M. polyspherula and M. crassifolia. 
12. M. Kingii, Hook. f.; leaves 8-10 in. long-petioled obovate or 
oblanceolate obtusely acuminate thinly coriaceous quite glabrous not 
glaucous beneath, nerves 15-20 pair very slender, panicles 4—6 in. sparsely 
rusty-tomentose flowers pedicelled, male perianth globose $ in. diam. 3-4 
cleft, staminal column sessile depressed-globose top concave, anthers firmly 
united with incurved tips. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; near Sivoke, alt. 10,000 ft., King. ? Assam, Masters in 
Herb, Caleutt. 
Branches very stout with rough bark and large scars of fallen leaves. Leaves 
31-5 in. broad, pale brown on both surfaces when dry, nerves spreading; petiole 
1-1} in. Panicles rather stout, from the axils of fallen leaves, much and loosely 
branched, flowers not very crowded; pedicels short stout. Perianth thick. Staminal 
column small; anthers about 20 ?.—This differs from M. glabra, to which it is per- 
haps too closely allied, in the pubescent panicle, longer petiole, larger leaves with 
more numerous veins and stouter panicles and pedicels, larget perianth and small 
depressed staminal column. The Assam specimens are of leaves only, 12-18 in. long 
by 5-7 broad. 
13. M. Horsfieldii, Blume Bijd.577, and Rumph. i. 192; leaves very 
coriaceous 8-12 in, oblong or elliptic-oblong rusty-tomentose beneath at 
length glabrate, nerves 16-30 pair very strong, male panicles rusty-tomen- 
tose, flowers sessile in dense globose heads, perianth jj in. long clavate 
angled 3—4-toothed, anthers 6 confluent in a clavate sessile column de- 
pressed at the top. Hook. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 164; Alph. DC. in Prodr. 
xiv. 1. 200; Bedd. For. Man. 176. M. Iryadghedhi, Gertn. Fruct. i. 196, 
t. 41, f. 4, ezcl. syn. M. ferruginea, Wall. Cat. 6803. Pyrrhosa Hors- 
fieldii, Wight Ic. t. 1857. Horsfieldia odorata, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 872. 
CEYLON; in the Ambagamowa and Rat distri a ar (cult. ?)s 
Waillich—Disrerp, Cult. in Java, napoora districts, SINGAPORE (ew 
A tall tree, branches very stout, densely woolly, at length glabrate. Leaves 
21-4 in. diam., pale bright-brown above, rufous at first beneath, or red brown; 
. petiole very stout, 4-1 in. Male panicies 3-6 in., rachis and branches very stout; 
heads of flowers 4-} in. diam., quite globose; perianths subsessile, compacted, 
glabrous, hardly pedicelled ; bracteoles orbicular, retained amongst the flowers but 
caducous, densely woolly outside; anthers quite confluent to the tips. Female 
panicles short, few-fld., ovary tomentose. Fruit shortly stoutly peduncled, ovoid, 
1 in. long, rusty-tomentose ; aril fleshy, entire. 
** Panicles glabrous. 
14. M. amygdalina, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 79, t. 90, and Cat. 6797; 
