——— ETERNA, o 
Myristica.] CXXVI. MYRISTICEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 107 
glabrous, leaves 6-8 in. elliptic-lanceolate acute at both ends, nerves 8-12 
pair, male panicles much branched, perianths 4, in. diam. globose 2-3-fid, 
staminal column cupular subglobose, anthers firmly united, fruit ellipsoid, 
aril nearly entire Yellow. Hook. f. § Thoms. Fl. Ind. 160; Alph. DC. in 
Prodr. xiv. 1. 203; ? Kurz For. Fl. ii. 283. M. exaltata, Wall. Cat 
6804 B ?. 
TzNAssERIM ; at Tavoy and Moulmein, Wallich. . 
À tall perfectly glabrous tree. Leaves 11-2 in. diam., coriaceous, pale brown on 
th surfaces, narrowed into a petiole 3 in. long. Male panicles, from the axils of 
fallen leaves, 3-5 in. long and nearly as broad, branched from the base, quite glabrous ; 
flowers loosely clustered, pedicels as long as the perianth, slender ; staminal column 
globosely trigonous, fleshy, concave ; authers about 8, wholly combined. Fruit shortly 
peduncled, 14 in. long; pericarp rather thin, glabrous; aril yellow, lacerate at the 
tip only.—This species again was founded on fruiting specimens of Wallich’s, but I 
think there is no doubt that his M. exaltata, B ?, from the same country is the same 
in male flowering state. In the“ Flora Indica " there are united with it two very mnm 
laccan plants, which have, however, quite different stamens (one is M. polyspherula, 
the other perhaps the same). I am in doubt as to Kurz's M. amygdalina; his 
description agrees with that here described except in that the leaves pave 12-19 pars 
9f nerves and the panicles are supra-axillary. A plant of Helfer's differs only in 
with d more anthers and rather larger flowers, tending to unite the following 
1 lis, | 
15-M. glabra, Blume Bijd. 575, and Rumphia i. 191, t. 64, fig. 1; 
quite glabrous, leaves 9-8 in. elliptic-lanceolate or oblong obtuse xum i 
acuminate, base acute, nerves 7-14 pair, male panicle much branched, 
Perianths }-}, in. diam. ovoidly globose 2-4-cleft glabrous, stamina 
column oblong or turbinate, anthers firmly united tips incurved or Lon 
t oblong or ellipsoid, aril thin scarlet. Hook. f. 4 Thoms. Ft. ind. 
161; 4754. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1.202. M. integra and M. floribunda, Wall, . 
Cat. 6799, 6805. ads 
Stzuxr, Wallich, J. D H. & T.T. ?TENASSERIM, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4358). 
TA GATORE, Wallich, Murton. Sarason, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1286).—DISTRIB. 
Leaves coriaceous, not glaucous beneath, rather pale brown, very variable in size 
and apex, but base always acute and petiole short, hardly exceeding 3 ie > Eres 
Poe 2-6 in., quite glabrous, branched from the base; peduncles “5 th tips 
vender, Staminal column variable in length, top rounded; anthers 12-15, d e p 
meeting in a concavity or not. Fruit broadly oblong or ellipsoid, 1 in. long, deeply 
on one side towards the base; valves thick. I doubt this peing 1 Silhet 
sing ‘imygdalina, Helfer's specimens bave much smaller flowers than the 
°S, and more numerous anthers. 
16. M. bivaly . quite glabrous, leaves 7-10 in. linear- 
oblong obtusely newmnigain ook. Jf 31 5120 pair, male panicles much branched 
os anths 1 in, diam. broader than long transversely 2-valved, s ons 
tae a laterally compressed 2-fid fleshy cup clothed with nume 
*eply inflexed anthers. 
SINGAPORE ; in jungles behi i Murton. 
3 behind the Botanical Gardens, M à . 
EE. bushy tree, 30 40 ft. high, bark grey. Leaves 2-24 in. Tam darker brown 
anie pale not glaucous beneath; nerves very spreading; peto ed aly 
Oblong, We glabrous; perianths the largest of the group, turgi ; transverse’ 
WP, pedicel as long as the valves; anther column an obconic compre QN 
end "UD. or rather a eup formed of the firmly united anther-cells, M : mE 
Rorber m two inflexed opposite flaps, tips of the cells not free.—A p ant dies 
8 Herbarium resembles this closely, but the leaves are more mem 
