Myristica.] ^ ^ cxxvi. MYRISTICER. (J. D. Hooker.) 113 
crenulate. Alph. DC. in Prodr. xxiv. 1.206. M. longifolia, Hook. f. & T. 
Fl. Ind. 156 (the Malayan plant). Knema glaucescens, Wall. Cat. 6810 
(not of Jack). 
Pewana, Porter. MALacoa, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4346, ? 4345), Maingay 
(Kew Distrib. 1287). Siwaaronr, N. Cantley. . 
Branchlets stout, older with black shining cracked bark. Leaves most variable 
m size, 1-1) in. diam., usually pale brown and shining above, base acute obtuse or 
cordate ; nerves strong, arched; petiole usually very short, thick, and thickly fur- 
aceous, but sometimes more slender and glabrate. Male fl. about à in. diam., 
cels 1—1 in., bracteolate about the middle ; antheriferous disk orbicular or 3-gonous, 
i flat; pedicel short but distinct. Fem. Jl. ovoid, nearly 4 in. long; stigma concave, 
Many-toothed. Fruit lj in. long, ovoid-oblong, densely scurfily tomentose; pericarp 
thick, aril entire except at the tip.—'The black bark of the older branchlets seems 
- à good character for this species. Griffith's No. 4345, from Malacca; has very numerous 
crowded flowers on a very short thick peduncle, with pedicel 4 in. long, and 18 anthers 
9n a less toothed disk. . . 
DOUBTFUL, INDETERMINABLE AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
M. INLAYSONIANA, Wall. Cat. 6793, is Melodorum fulgens H. f. & T. (see 
Vol. i, p. 82), 
M. nvcexrmrotta, Alph? DC. in Prodr. xxiv. 1. 190, described from leaf and 
fruit only, and placed in Section Eumyristicec, is indeterminable. 
M. Gtavcrscens, Wall. Cat. 6790, is Tetranthera venulosa, Meissn. 
M. HEYNEANA, Wall. Cat. 6789 ; Alph. DC. l. c. 207, without flower or fruit, is 
y Laurineous. 
M. Hooxnz, Wail. Cat, 6802 B, is undeterminable. 
M, INTEGRIFOLIA, Steud. Nom., is Myrica integrifolia, Wall. : 
M.mtorawrma, Wall. Cat. 6807 ; A. DO. L c. 208, is a Siam plant, and not Indian. 
M. woxrAwA, Roxb. FU. Ind. iii. 846; Wall. Cat. 6792, is referred by A. DC. 
(Prodr, xxiv, 1. 190) to M. iners, Blume. " Tt has not been found in British India. 
She „P OBTUSIFOLIA, Wall, Cat. 6808; H. f. 4 T. Fl. Ind. 163; A. DC. 1. c. 194, 
- Singapore, is indeterminable. 
M. sarrpa, Steud. Nom., is Myrica sapida, Wall. 
da i: SPSQUIPEDALIS, Wall. Cat. 6809 “an Laurin. fam." from Penang, is Actin 
hne sesquipedalis, Hk. f. & T. 
TEISTICA ? Wall. Cat. 9017, from Silhet, Gomez, is not of this genus. 
YRISTICA ; Malacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1298), in fruit only, is a very 
fine Probably new species, with very coriaceous large glabrous leaves rounded at the 
pai bow it 23 i in large long-peduncled 
‘ when dry, and oblong fruit 2} in. long, in large long-p 
eed pericarp very thick; seed ellipsoid, FUN long, beautifully mottled, pale 
elipti i White.—The following is Dr. Maingay’s description of the fruit : a ovoid 
lindri Te f in., dark green, perfectly glabrous, dotted with black ; se » 
Tic-elliptic; aril complete, fleshy, blood-red, tip lacerate. it 
boa ded: Malacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1801), has slender pale, gla € 
shini ets with finely tomentose fulvous tips ; elliptic pale greenish lam 213 er ig 
long io a ove paler beneath with 6-10 pair of very slender nerves ; fruit on oid, 1-14 in. 
th ing Peduneled, fascicled on a tubercle of the stem, keeled on one sic and gib » 
Ln base, pericarp thin, aril entire, seed small ovoid. —The follows gis 
a short oro Eay’s notes: * Fruit elliptic-ovate, 14 by 1 in., sud enly n rowed ipio 
Pübern] stalk, keeled at the suture of the valves, pale greenis “ora ge, d y: 
Memb; ma Seed $ by 4 in. elliptic ; aril complete, blood-red, tip lobulate, testa p 
inan tegmen crustaceous.” . a 
VOL, Obs Singapore, M aingay (Kew Distrib. 1291), closely mE es M. fur 
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