108 CXXVI. MYRISTICE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Myristica. 
with more oblique nerves, and the inflexed anthers are confined to the upper part of 
an obconie stipes, as in Zrya, It is probably one of the species described by Roxburgh 
in terms too brief to be of any use in identifying the plants intended. 
** Anthers produced to the base of the column or not, cells more or 
less free, easily separable. 
17. M. Farqubariana, Wall. Cat. 6795; glabrous except the panicle, 
leaves 5-10 in. oblong or linear- or elliptic-oblong acute or acuminate 
usually very glaucous beneath, nerves 8-20 pair, male panicles spreading, 
perianth bell-shaped 3-fid pubescent within, staminal column sessile, 
anthers free above, tips erect acute. Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 162; 
Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 200; Beddome Fl. Sylv. t. 270. M. pant 
culata, Alph. DO. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, iv. 31, and in Prodr. l. c. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; from the Concan to Wynaad and Tinnevelly, ascending the 
Ghats to 2000 ft. MALACCA, PENANG and SINGAPORE, Wallich, &c., Griffith (Kew 
Distrib. 4355), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1290, 1293, ?1302).—DisrRis. Philippine 
Islands. 
A tall tree, young parts pubescent; branches stout, grey. Leaves extremely 
variable in size, form and texture, nerves faint or strong; petiole i-i in. Male 
panicles 3-8 in., rather slender, branched from the base; flowers fascicled, perianth 
4 in.; anthers 7-11, narrow, connectives attached behind and from the base to about 
the middle only, so that the anthers are easily detached by dissection. Female 
panicles 6-10-üd. Fruit 1-1} in., subglobose, glabrous, aril lacerate.— This species 
is founded on Wallich’s Singapore fruiting specimen ; the identity in foliage of those 
and a Malaccan plant of Griffith with small flowers suggested their union in the 
** Flora Indica." As stated under M. Griffithii, there are specimens of that plant as 
like Wallich's type in foliage, In the “Flora Indica” the anthers are described as 
having involute tips, but this is not the case. Alph. DC. separates the Malayan 
specimens from the Deccan ones on characters taken from the foliage, but the leaves 
vary greatly in both countries, and identical forms are common to both. 
18. M. crassifolia, Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 160; nearly gla- 
brous, leaves 8-12 in. thickly coriaceous oblong obtuse or acute, base 
rounded or cuneate, nerves 12-15 pair, male panicle sparsely rusty- 
pubescent, perianth 4, in. glabrous usually 2-fid, anthers 3-5 in a depressed 
ring, cells separable. Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 204. M. Horsfieldia, 
Blume P, Wall. Cat. 6806, in part. M. Irya, var. crassifolia, Miquel in 
erb. 
Maracca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4550). SINGAPORE, Wallich, Anderson.— 
DistriB. Borneo. 
Branches very robust. Leaves 8-44 in. diam., grey-brown above, red-brown be- 
neath, nerves slendér ; petiole 2-1 in., very stout. Male panicle 3-4 in., branched 
from near the base; flowers elustered, globose; anther-cells 6-10, slightly cohering 
by their backs, sessile, tips free, hardly incurved. 
19. M. polyspherula, Hook. f.; glabrous except the panicle, leaves 
6-10 in. linear-oblong or lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate, nerves 8-16 
pair base rounded or acute, male panicle rusty-tomentose, perianth globose 
i i 1 1 lls 
x iu. diam. glabrous 2—4-cleft, anthers 4-6 in a depressed column, cel! 
separable. M. globularia, Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 160; Alph. DC. ^ 
Pradr. xiv. 1. 202 (not of Blume). M. Horsfeldia, Blume?, Wall. Cat. 
68006, in part. 
SINGAPORE, Wallick. Maracca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4351 amygdalina, and 
4352 globularia); Maingay (Kew Distrib. 2286, glabra). 
Branches stout, shoots slightly scurfy, bark grey. Leaves rarely 2 in. broad, 
