846 DioECiA MONADELPHiA. Myristictt. 



JSTote. The plantations in the vicinity of Bencoolen have 

 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 pitcher- 

 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. 



4. M. peltala. R. 



Leaves lanceolar, smooth, above shining. Male Jlowers 

 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 in the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 



5. M. salicifolia. Willd. iv. 871. 



Leaves lanceolate, villous underneath. Peduncles axil- 



