—— HER, cA, C0 a A 
Myristica.] OXXVI, MYRISTICER (J. D. Hooker.) 111 
or acuminate glaucous beneath, nerves 14-20 pair, male fl. fascicled on 
short peduncle, pedicels slender, perianth subglobose 3-fid l in. diam., 
anthers 12 on the toothed margin of a stipitate peltate disk, fruit ovoid 
beaked. Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 157; Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 205; 
Beddome For.. Man. 176. M. corticosa, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 271 (not of H. f. 
n M. amygdalina, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl.175; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
A Dn the Concan Guats, Heyne, Dalzell, &c. TRAVANCORE MTS., alt. 2-3000 ft., 
eddome. 
Branches slender, at length glabrous. Leaves 2-3 in. diam., thinly coriaceous, . 
pale brown above ; midrib and spreading nerves beneath stout, tomentose when young ; 
base acute or rounded; petiole 3-2 in. Male peduncle à in.; pedicels 1-3 in., 
bracteolate above the middle. Female flower not seen ; pedicels of fruit about as long 
as ofthe male fl. Fruit 1-14 in. long, ellipsoid or ovoid with a short point or beak, 
densely furfuraceously rusty-tomentose ; pericarp thin; aril entire, except towards 
the lobed apex.— Wallich's specimens (from Heyne) have nearly globose fruits; the 
oncan and Travancore ones have longer fruits with acute tips. 
26. M. glaucescens, Hook. f. § Thoms. Fl. Ind. 157; branchlets 
and inflorescence rusty-hoary, leaves 4-6 (rarely 12) in. linear-oblong obtuse 
acute or acuminate glaucous beneath, nerves 12-20 pair, male and female f. 
few fascicled on a very short peduncle long-pedicelled, male perianth 
subglobose, female turbinate, anthers about 10 on the toothed margin of 
à subsessile peltate disk with a flat top, stigma subsessile peltate toothed, 
1t small subglobose, aril nearly complete. M. intermedia B. minor, Miquel 
P^ Ind. Bat. i. 270. ? M. sumatrana, Blume Rumph. i. 187. M. corticosa, 
"part, Hook. f. & T. l. c. 158; Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 205, in part; 
Kurz For. Fl. 984. M. missionis? & lanceolata, Walt. Cat. 6788, rs 
; angustifolia, Rowb. Fl. Ind. iii. 847. ? Knema glaucescens, Jack in 
Y Misc. No. vii. 35, and in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 149 (not of Wallich). 
K. corticosa, Lour, Fl. Coch. 742. 
Tenasserim, Griffith, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4349, 4344, 4349), &e. ANDAMAN 
GLANDS, Kurz. Sree kee MarAcca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4343), 
lich, rd (No. 2815), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1280, 1282, 1299). Siwaaronz, Wal- 
th urton.— DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. _ » Indica." though 
the “Ave retained the name adopted for this plant in the “ Flora Indica, g 
wre is no certainty of its being the Knema glaucescens of Jack ; it, however, agrees 
with it in the important character of its very small fruit, which is ovate-oblong as 
scribed in the Flora, or nearly globose or ellipsoid (Kurz). It is no doubt the 
i @nceolata and probably missionis of Wallich; the latter, from Heyne A 1 er- 
it e » Was probably collected in the Straits and sent to that missionary. e her 
Pied “+ sumatrana of Blume and M. angustifolia of Roxburgh is altoget er 
‘that ant , the copious specimens received since the date of the “Flora Indica, show 
an n € Tenasserim and Malayan plants included under M. corticosa in that work are 
206 different from M. glaucescens. With regard to M. glauca, Blume, referred also 
his » work to M. corticosa, its fleshy aril divided low down should (according to 
Pate) Separate it from glaucescens, but Javanese specimens named sree an 
frit wt by . Miquel and others only differ from the Indian plant - the arger 
by did Kurz describes the aril of corticosa, H. f. & T., as “ blood-red somewha 
wd and lacerate ;” and as to Loureiro’s Anema corticosa, much more complete 
Ter are wanted before it can safely be identified with any Malayan species. 
ndaman specimen of Kurz has leaves fully a foot long. The small leaves, sub- 
the sop, Ple flowers 4 in. diam., and turbinate female ones $ in. long, together with 
farf Ubsessile or short styled peltate stigma, and small fruit 3 in. long, with their 
Whose ots Pericarp and almost entire thin aril, well distinguish this species, 
Under i per name can only be determined when more is known of the plants quoted 
