108 Systematik und PÜanzengeographie. 



-var. leptocarpa Cbapm., var. minor nov. var., var. discutiena Clarke, axillari» 

 Lam., var. microcephala nov. var., fusca L., filifolia Torr., fuscoides Clarke nov. 

 spec, distans Mchx. var. tenuis Baldw., fascicularin Mchx., brachychaeta Sauv., 

 gracüeMa A. Gray, Baldwinii A. Gray, ciliala Mchx., Grayii Kunth, dodecandra 

 Baldw., glaura Vahl, cymosa Willd., var. compressa Chapm. , var. glohularis 

 Chapin., punctata Ell , Kunthii Nees, Schajfneri Boeckl., Torreyana A. Gray» 

 rarißora Mchx., microcarpa Bai Iw., cadnca EH., schoenoides EIL, patula A. Gray, 

 decurrens Ch-ipin., inexpansa Mchx., miliacea Lam., fitenophylla ('h;i]im , maria- 

 cidus Nee.s. 



E. Roth (Halle a. S.). 



Ki Ilg, G., The species of Myristica o f British I n d i a. (Ann. 

 of the R. Botan. Garden of Calcutta. Vol. III.) 



Nach einer geschichtlichen Einleitung über die Arten der Gattung 

 giebt Verf. folgenden Bestimmuugsschlüssel : 



Sect. I, Eumyristica (Eumyristica Hook. fil. et Thoms. 5 Eu- 

 myristica and Caloneura A. DC.) Male fiowers in cymes, utnbels 

 or few-flowered panicles ; perianth 3-toothed (4-toothed in M. zeyla- 

 nica) with a persistent, usually oblique, bracteole at its base ; androe 

 cium H~ cylindric or fusiform ; staminal column elongate, usually stalked ; 

 anthers linear, elongate, usually entirely counate to the column and to 

 each other; occasionally their apices, and niore rarely their edges free. 

 Fruit large, ovoid or obbmg : the pericarp succulent, rarely leathery. 



1. Male tlowers in panicle.s 4 or 5 in. long; flowers and bracteoles large; 

 leaves 10 to 16 in. long'; fruit large. 1. M. hracteafa X.DC. 



2. Male flowers in lax little-branched panicles, 3 in. l^ng (several times 

 longer than the leaf petioles) ; flowers small ; leaves 8 to 10 in. long. 



2. M. Malaccensis Hook. f. 

 .3. Male flowers in lax, branching cymes (at ieast twice as long as the leaf- 

 petioles); leaves small; fruit large. 



a. Fruit glabrous, broadly pyriform. 3. M. Jragrans Houtt. 



b. Fruit rufous-tomentose, elongate-oblong; cymes puberulous. 



4. M. Malabarica Lam. 



c. Fruit broadly ovoid ; cymes rusty pubescent. 



5. M. gigantea King sp. u. 

 4. Male flowers in Condensed many-flowered umbels or cymes shorter or 

 very little longer than the leaf-petioles. 



a. Pericarp or fruit leathery, not succulent ; male perianth 4 toothed. 



6. M. Zeylanica A. DC. 



b. Pericarp succulent. 



I. Male flowers ovoid or globose. 



a. Fruit minutely rufous-tomentose or pubescent, not rugulose. 

 Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, rounded ov truncate or 

 slightly cuneate at the base; fruit ovoid, abruptly and 

 shortly apiculate. 7. M. laurifolia Hook. f. and Th. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, rounded or 

 suddenly cuneate at the base; fruit subglobular, 2,25 in. 

 in diam. 8. M. Beddomei King sp. n. 



Leaves oblong or elliptic- oblong, rounded the base, 12 to 

 24 in. long, stellate-tomentose beneath ; fruit ovoid, 3 to 

 4 in. long. 9. M. magnifica Bedd. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate »vith rounded bases, 4 to 7 in. 

 long, cinnamomeous-tomentose beneath ; fruit 3 to 3,5 in. 

 long. 10. M, cinnamomea King sp. n. 



Leaves oblong or elleptic-oblong, much cuneata at the 

 base, 7 to 12 in. long, glabrous beueath; fruit 1,5 to 3 in. 

 long. 11. M. craasa King sp. n. 



