110 CXXVI. MYRISTICEÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Myristica. 
PENANG, Wallich, Porter, MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1279). 
Branches as thick as the fore-finger; wool tawny, À in. thick, flocculent. Leaves . 
very variable in breadth, narrowest 12 by 24 in., broadest 24 by 8 in., thickly 
coriaceous, pale brown and shining above, wool on under-surface deciduous in large 
flukes leaving the surface perfectly glabrous, Male fl. “crimson within,” Maingay ; 
pedicels }-1 in. long, with a persistent bracteole about the middle; stamens pale rose, 
filaments very short, anthers deflexed ; fem..fl. not seen. Ovary “rusty tomentose ; 
stigma subsessile, disciform, concave, crenate-serrate," Maingay. Fruit 23 in. long. 
ellipsoid, most densely woolly, perianth very thick; aril fleshy, lobed. —Wallich’s 
6802 B, without flower or fruit, is probably Laurineous. 
. 23. M. Cantleyi, Hook. f.; branchlets robust and petioles and young 
leaves and inflorescence densely rusty-tomentose, leaves 9-12 in. oblong or 
linear-oblong coriaceous glaucous beneath, nerves 20-30 pair strong, male fl. 
clustered on a tubercle shortly stoutly pedicelled, perianth bracteolate at the 
base 3-fid, anthers 6-8 on the margin of a stoutly clavately stipitate small 
isk. 
SINGAPORE, N. Cantley. 
Branches stout with pale bark. Leaves 3-5 in. diam., dark brown above, young 
clothed with flocculent rusty fugacious wool which is more persistent on the midrib 
above, beneath finely pubescent (probably glabrate in age); petiole very short, stout. 
Male fi. $-} in. diam., with the pedicels 3-3 in. long ; bracteole orbicular, appresse 
to the perianth; perianth-lobes short; staminal columm small, anthers short sessile 
separate. Fem. fl. and fruit unknown.—This appears to be most nearly allied to M. 
Hookeriana ; it differs from the other Indian species of this section in the bracteole 
being close under the periantb. 
24. M. longifolia, Wall. Cat. 6801; branches scurfy or glabrous, 
leaves 1-2 ft. linear or linear-oblong or obovate-oblong obtuse glabrous 
glaucous beneath base rounded cordate or acute, nerves 20-40 pair stout, 
male fl. clavate 1 in. diam. fascicled on a tubercle pedicelled 3-cleft, 
anthers 12-18 on the teeth of a long-stipitate circular disk, style long 
labrous, stigma small toothed. M. longifolia, in part, Hook. f. & Thoms. 
l. Ind. 156; Alph. DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 204; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 283. ? M- 
linifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 847. 
Sikkim HIMALAYA, in hot valleys, Thomson. Assam, SILHET and the KHASIA 
Mrs, Wallich, &c. Cnitracone, J. D. H. 4 T. T. Preu, MarABAN and 
TENASSERIM, Kurz.—DISTRIB. Ava. , 
A lofty tree, branchlets stout or slender, sometimes tomentose. Leaves extremely 
variable, usually linear, 12-18 by 2-21 in., sometimes much broader, 18-24 by 6-7 in. 
and narrowed below the middle, thickly coriaceous, pale yellow-brown and shining 
above, nerves arched or nearly horizontal; petiole 3—1 in., stout, glabrous or tomen- 
tose. Male fi. very variable in size, }~4 in. diam., densely tomentose, scarlet within ; 
pedicel 4-3 in., bracteole obscure; anther-disk concave or plane ; pedicel grooved, 
contained in the tubular base of the perianth ; anthers short, deflexed. Female 
pedicels very short; ovary densely tomentose.. Fruit 1-2 in. long, subglobose or 
ellipsoid, tomentose; aril pale, thin, lobed above the middle.—The Malayan plant 
referred to under this species in “ Flora Indica ” is M. furfuracea. 
Var. erratica; leaves smaller 6-10 by 14-2} in. M. erratica, Hook. F4 Thoms. 
Fl. Ind.156; Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 905. M. corticosa, Hook. f. & Thoms. 
l. c. 166, in part.—Khasia Mts, and Chittagong.— I fear this is only a small-leaved 
state of M. longifolia, and not even a variety ; the stigma is identical, and the character 
taken from the top of the antheriferous disk being flat (in opposition to concave itt 
longifolia), cannot be relied on. The flowers are, however, much more trigonously 
globose, and the stalk of the anther-disk is shorter. : 
25. M. attenuata, Wall. Cat. 6791; branchlets and inflorescence 
furfuraceously tomentose, leaves 5-9 in. elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acute 
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