846 DIOECIA MONADELPHIAy Myristica, 
Note.’ The plantations in the vicinity of Bencoolen havé 
continued to thrive and multiply astonishingly till the pre- 
sent time, 1809. The trees now amount to about six thousand 
six hundred, are abundantly productive, and both nuts and 
mace are uncommonly fine. 
2. M. macrophylla, R 
Leaves short-petioled, cuneate-oblong, clothed with fine 
down underneath, with veins parallel and simple. Female 
flowers in lateral and axillary fascicles in very short diverg- 
ing peduncles. Germ hairy. 
Nux myristica mas. Rumph, Amb. ii. t. 5, 
The female specimens in flower have only been seen; and 
they are easily distinguished from the other species, by the 
great size of the leaves, and the fascicles of sub-sessile female 
flowers, with hairy germs. This cannot well be referred to 
Willdenow’s M. tomentosa, on account of the shape of the 
leaves. 
3. M. montana, R. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, smooth, Flowers axillary ; males 
many, on a common, short peduncle; females one to three, 
on very short, proper peduncles only. Both calyces ie 
shaped, and tridentate. ; 
A native of the mountains of the Molucca Islands, where 
it grows to be a tree of considerable size, but the fruit made 
no use of, 
" M. aisle Ri 
Leaves lanceolar, smooth, above shining. Male floneys 
axillary, fascicled, rotate, staminiferous, column peltate, with 
about twelve anthers round the under side of the margin. | 
A native of the Moluccas, ‘The male flowers during the hot 
season inthe Botanic garden at Caleut, MS ee 
5. M. salicifolia. Willd. iv, 871.0 © 
_ Leaves lanceolate, villous underneath. Fadeuckse a 
