104: cxxvi. MYRISTICEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Myristica. 



The COKCAN, CAN A HA and N. MALABAB, Heyne, &c. 



A tall tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous ou the flowering branches, thick and leathery 

 011 the fruiting, more or less shining above, nerves very slender ; petiole |-1 in. Male 

 panicles 1-1 io axillary and supra-axillary ; peduncle naked below, subumbellately 

 cymose above ; bracteole an orbicular scale ; perianth in., puberulous, 3-toothed ; 

 anthers connate in a cylindric shortly stipitate column. Female panicles few-fld. ; 

 flowers larger. Fruit 2 by 1 in., pubescent. A fruiting specimen apparently of this 

 species from Dalzell (marked amygdalina ?) has oblong leaves 10 by 4 in. and rounded 

 at the base ; the detached fruit accompanying it is, however, long and pubescent as in 

 Rheede's and Beddome's figures of malabarica. On the other hand, fruits that 

 accompany Wight's Malabar specimens of malabarica are shorter broader and only 

 1 in- long. 



5. IMC. malaccensis, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, branches rather 

 slender, leaves 8-10 in. linear-oblong acute or acuminate, nerves 15-20 pair 

 slender, male fl. in subcymose fascicles bracteolate subglobose, anthers 

 about 7. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1305). 



Habit of M. malabarica, but leaves longer, usually rounded at the base but 

 sometimes acute, petiole rather short %-\ in., panicle longer 3-4 in., with more 

 numerous much smaller llowers -,'g in. long, on slender rather longer pedicels. Perianth 

 3-toothed ; anthers connate in a broad sessile column, tips acute. The probable 

 fruiting state of this, according to Dr. Maiugay's Herbarium notes (Kew Distrib. 

 1304) in specimens of which the leaves 6 in. long are elliptic-oblong obtuse very 

 leathery acute at the base with a very stout petiole, "Fruit subglobose 1^ by lj in., 

 glabrous, pale-yellowish; pericarp thick, fleshy, f g - T 3 in. thick ; aril complete, slightly 

 lobed at the tip, clear reddish orange, testa slightly crustaceous pale brown." 



6. IH magrnifica, BeddomeFL Sylv. t. 268 ; young parts clothed with 

 golden pubescence, leaves 10-24 in. thickly coriaceous linear-oblong acute or 

 acuminate densely stellately tomentose beneath glabrate in age, nerves 20- 

 26 pairs, male flowers tomentose dense crowded on very short stout axillary 

 peduncles bracteolate, fruit large oblong. 



SOUTH TEAVANCOBE; in the plains, Beddome. 



An immense gregarious tree, 100 feet high, described by Beddome as having 

 buttressed trunks, most like M. laurifolia, but different looking, with different 

 pubescence venation and antheriferous column, and a larger fruit. Except in the 

 much larger size and pubescence, I see no difference between this and lawifolia. 

 The specimen communicated by Beddome, and which he says was pronounced at Kew 

 to be M. malabarica, consists of a single leaf 20 by 6 in., with 20 pairs of nerves, 

 and a very stout petiole and midrib ; it is perfectly glabrous, presents no definite 

 character but size and corresponding number of nerves ; both the texture, colour and 

 nervation occur in leaves of M. laurifolia and malabarica. 



7. M. IKaingrayi, Hook. f. ; branches stout black, shoots and inflo- 

 rescence rusty-tomentose, leaves 7-10 in. linear-oblong acute or acuminate 

 glabrous, nerves 14-18 pairs, male panicles axillary and supra-axillary, 

 peduncle and pedicels short very stout, perianth bracteolate ovoid, column 

 of anthers slender acute. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1289). 



A lofty tree. Branches much angled by the contraction of the bark in longitu- 

 dinal ridges. Leaves very coriaceous, 2-2^ in. broad, pale brown, nerves slender, 

 base acute or rounded ; petiole 1 in. Male panicles decurved, 8-10-fld. ; peduncle 

 compressed ; pedicels about in. ; perianth as long, broadly ovoid ; bracts caducous ; 

 bracteole broad half as long as the perianth ; anthers 9, stipes very short, pubescent. 

 Approaches M. hyposiicta, Miquel, of Java, but the stout branches with black bark 

 aud very coriaceous leaves not glaucous beneath appear to distinguish it. 



