Myristica?^ ■ Myidsticaccce. 435 



Forests in the intermediate zone, rare. Medamahanuwara ; Uma- 

 oya; Naula near Nalande (Alexander). Fl. April. 



Endemic. 



Considered a variety of M. laurifolia in Fl. B. Ind., but King keeps 

 it as distinct. 



3. I«. Korsfieldia, Bl. Bijd. 577 (1825). Ruk, S. 



Burm. Thes. 173. Horsfieldia odorata, Willd., Moon Cat. 70. M. 

 Ifyaghedhi, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 196. Thw. Enum. 11. King, 1. c. 296 

 C. P. 221. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 106. Wight, let. \?,^7 {Pyrrhosia Horsfieldiz). Gaertn. 

 1. c. t. 41, f. 4 (fruit). Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. iii. tt. 122-3. 



A large tree, with tall straight trunk and numerous long 

 drooping branches, bark thin, brownish-grey, slightly cracked, 

 branchlets marked with 1. -scars, young parts orange-tomen- 

 tose ; 1. large, 7-12 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute or slightly 

 rounded at base, acuminate, acute or obtuse, entire, glabrous 

 bright green and polished above, glaucous and with more or 

 less orange stellate tomentum (easily rubbed off) beneath, 

 petiole I in., very stout, rufous-tomentose ; male fl. very 

 numerous, very small, sessile, in many dense globose heads 

 sessile on branches of large spreading orange-tomentose 

 panicles 4-6 in. long from the axils of fallen 1., fern. fl. fewer, 

 much larger, in short axillary panicles ; perianth thick, segm. 

 3, deep ; stam. 6 ; ov. densely tomentose ; fruit about 2 in., 

 broadly ovoid or nearly globose, rufous-tomentose, pericarp 

 thick; seed about i^ in., oblong-ovoid, aril scarcely lobed, com- 

 pletely covering the seed, dead orange-chrome coloured, testa 

 thin, endosperm much ruminated. 



Moist low country, up to 1000 ft. ; common. Fl. August- October, 

 also Feb., March; orange-yellow. 



Endemic ? 



Gaertner's name has priority, but it is a barbarous one taken from 

 Hermann (Mus. 58) and is not the correct Sinhalese name of the tree. 

 The male flowers are extremely fragrant, with precisely the scent of 

 sandal-wood ; a scent is made from them. Burmann's tigure (Thes. t. 79) 

 is very bad, and Wight's (from a drawing by Mrs. Walker) has the leaves 

 much narrower than usual. Wood moderately heavy, even-grained, 

 yellowish ; used for boats in the Southern Prov. 



4. TIL. Irya, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 195 (1788), Zriya, S. 



Burm. Thes. 172. Moon Cat. 70. Thw. Enum. 11. King, 1. c. 308. 

 C. P. 2620. 



Fl. B. Ind. v. 109. Gaertn. 1. c. t. 41, f. 3. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. 

 iii. t. 141. 



A rather slender erect tree about 40 ft., branched at the 

 top, bark purplish-grey, smooth, marked with 1. -scars, young 

 parts slightly rusty-furfuraceous ; 1. numerous, 7-12 in., oblong- 

 or linear-lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, acute, glabrous, 



