106 cxxvi. MYRISTICE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Alyristica. 



anther-cells. Alph. DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 203. M. Horsfieldii, Blume ? Wall 

 Cat. 6806, in part. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Dislrib. 1284). SINGAPORE, WallicJi, Lobb, Maingay 

 (3/. crassifolia, Kew Distrib. 1283). 



A tall tree, branches robust. Leaves 2-3| in. broad, very coriaceous, dull brown 

 above, red brown beneath, nerves spreading ; petiole 1-li i n -> often stout. Male 

 panicles axillary and from the axils of fallen leaves, branched from the base which is 

 often as thick as the petiole, branches stout ; flowers pedicelled, thickly coriaceous, in 

 globose clusters of 8-10, 3-4-cleft; anthers 10-12 (24-27 cells ?, Maingay), forming 

 a low obconic 3-gonous fleshy column of firmly united cells. Female panicles short; 

 fruit (unripe) very shortly and stoutly pedicelled. This species, which is probably a 

 variety of M. tomentosa, was founded on the young fruit and leaves of one of a mixed 

 lot of species comprised under Wallich's No. 6806, of which he says " forsan duse 

 species mixta?." There are two sheets of specimens under this number ; one contains 

 the fruiting specimens taken up as WallicJiii, together with a panicle of male fl. of 

 M. crassifolia ; the other contains scraps of M. polyspherula and M. crassifolia. 



12. M. Kinsii, Hook. f. ; leaves 8-10 in. long-petioled obovate or 

 oblanceolate obtusely acuminate thinly coriaceous quite glabrous not 

 glaucous beneath, nerves 15-20 pair very slender, panicles 4-6 in. sparsely 

 rusty-tomentose flowers pedicelled, male perianth globose g in- diam. 3-4 

 cleft, staminal column sessile depressed-globose top concave, anthers firmly 

 united with incurved tips. 



SIKEIM HIMALAYA; near Sivoke, alt. 10,000 ft., King. ? ASSAM, Masters in 

 Herb. Calcutt. 



Branches very stout with rough bark and large scars of fallen leaves. Leaves 

 3|-5 in. broad, pale brown on both surfaces when dry, nerves spreading; petiole 

 1-li in- Panicles rather stout, from the axils of fallen leaves, much and loosely 

 branched, flowers not very crowded ; pedicels short stout. Perianth thick. Staminal 

 column small; anthers about 20 ?. This differs from M. glabra, to which it is per- 

 haps too closely allied, in the pubescent panicle, longer petiole, larger leaves, with 

 more numerous veins and stouter panicles and pedicels, larger perianth and small 

 depressed staminal column. The Assam specimens are of leaves only, 12-18 in. long 

 by 5^-7 broad. 



13. XH. Horsfieldii, Blume Bijd. 577, and Rumpk. i. 192 ; leaves very 

 coriaceous 8-12 in. oblong or elliptic-oblong rusty-tomentose beneath at 

 length glabrate, nerves 16-30 pair very strong, male panicles rusty-tomen- 

 tose, flowers sessile in dense globose heads, perianth 2 '?j in. long clavate 

 angled 3-4-toothed, anthers 6 confluent in a clavate sessile column de- 

 pressed at the top. Hook. f. 8f T. FL Ind. 164 ; Alph. DC. in Prodr. 

 xiv. 1. 200 ; Bedd. For. Man. 176. M. Iryadghedhi, Gartn. Fruct. i. 196, 

 t. 41, f. 4, excl. syn. M. ferruginea, Wall. Cat. 6803. Pyrrhosa Hors- 

 fieldii, Wight Ic. t. 1857. Horsfieldia odorata, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 872. 



CEYLON ; in the Ambagamowa and Eatnapoora districts. SINGAPOBE (cult. ?), 

 Wallich. DISTEIB. Cult, in Java. 



A tall tree, branches very stout, densely woolly, at length glabrate. Leaves 

 2^-4 in. diam., pale bright-brown above, rufous at first beneath, or red brown; 

 petiole very stout,- ^-1 in. Male panicles 3-6 in., rachis and branches very stout ; 

 heads of flowers ^ | in. diam., quite globose ; perianths subsessile, compacted, 

 glabrous, hardly pedicelled ; bracteoles orbicular, retained amongst the flowers but 

 caducous, densely woolly outside ; anthers quite confluent to the tips. Female 

 panicles short, few-fld., ovary tomentose. Fruit shortly stoutly peduncled, ovoid, 

 1 in. long, rusty-tomentose; aril fleshy, entire. 



** Panicles glabrous. 



14. IK. amygdalina, Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 79, t. 90, and Cat. 6797; 



