AMyristica.] CXXVI. MYRISTICEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 109 
coriaceous, greenish grey above, brown beneath; nerves slender, nearly horizontal ; 
petiole 4-4 in., stout. Male panicles 3-3} in., branching from near the base, flowers 
pedicelled, glabrous, yellow, black when dry; anthers in a sessile broadly obconic 
trigonous truncate mass, anther-cells incurved and meeting in a tricrural line.— 
Pecimens of M. globularia from Amboyna show that this was erroneously referred 
tothat plant in * Flora Indica.” From M. amygdalina, with which it was confounded 
in “ Flora Indica,” the stamens at once distinguish it. 
90. M. Griffithii, Hook. f.; glabrous except the finely pubescent 
panicles and flowers, leaves 5-6 in. linear-lanceolate finely acuminate shining 
above glaucous beneath, base acute, nerves 8-10 pair very faint, male 
E slender, perianth globose j, in. diam. 2-3-cleft, anthers 8 in a glo- 
se sessile mass, cells separable. 
ao ATACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4356). SINGAPORE, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 
aves 13-13 in. broad, very coriaceous (smaller in Maingay’s specimens), and 
24-3 by 1-1} 4 pale brown above, very o ln ecous beneath with a reddish midrib ; 
petiole in. Male panicle narrow, rachis and distant branches very slender, naked 
i ow; flowers clustered, pedicel slender; anthers easily separable, curved, attached 
y the back with free tips and sides; cells confluent. Fruit “ racemed, size of a 
l Try, pedicel } in., pericarp thick with a deep longitudinal furrow ; aril white, as 
UE 35 the seed,” Grigith mss.—In Maingay’s specimens fruit “elliptic or sub- 
E ł in. long dirty orange minutely scurfy, aril complete pinkish convolute 
Acerate at the tip," M aingay mss. I cannot be certain of Maingay’s and Griffith's 
hi ts being conspecific; their foliage is identical, but this is all undistinguishable 
tom states of M, Farquhariana, l 
"E M. Irya, Gertn. Fruct. i. 195, t. 41; leaves 6-10 in. linear- or 
e tic-oblong acuminate glabrous, nerves 12-20 pair slender, perianth 
a 8e p in. diam. glabrous 2-3.cleft, anthers 6-8 free in a ring crowning an 
nie receptacle, fruit panicled globose. Hook. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 159; 
» Ph. DC. in Prodr. xiv, 1. 202; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat.i.2. 64; Beddome 
brest. Man, 176. M. javanica, Blume Bijd. 576, and Rumph. i. 190, t. 62. 
y. pterocarpa, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 79, t. 89, and Cat. 6796. M. exaltata, 
all. Cat, 6804, in part. 
(K TrxassxnrM, Wallich. SOUTE ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. MALACCA, Griffith 
oe Distrib, 4357), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1291, 1292). CEYLON, not uncommon. 
LD. Sumatra, J ava, Borneo. i k 
tree, buds ashy. Leaves 2-8 in. broad, membranous at length coriaceous, a 
pani] OV lighter beneath, base rounded cuneate or acute; petiole j in. di m. 
glabro s in., very many-fld.; fem. shorter, perianths larger. Fruit l “lob sec 
With e pericarp coriaceous ; aril thin, entire, yellow or reddish, seed glo ly the 
| the habit inflorescence and minute flowers of Sect. Pyrrhosa, this has nearly the 
column ofa Knema, 
Sect. TIT. 3x. : f a short stout 
"iH. Knema. Male flowers fascicled on the top ot a s 3 
Pedunele or tubercle ; pedicels sith a persistent bracteole about'the middle 
u , : 
peltan oe, lower in M. Cantleyana). Anthers short, in a whorl round a 
22, M Hookeri ; hlets very stout 
. ana, Wall. Cat. 6802 A; branc 
at ls beneath and panicle most densely flocculent and woolly, leaves r2 ft. 
wands glabrate and glaucous beneath linear-oblong or narrowed a 
i dg 7 tase or acute, petiole short thick, nerves 20-30 pair, EX y 
anther, ID: densely clustered on a short peduncle or tubercle 3-cle 4 
Hook bout 20 on the margin of a long-stipitate orbicular peltate disk. 
"ef: § Thoms, Fl. Ind. 156 ; Alph. DO. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 204. 
