Myristica.] cxxvi. MYRISTICE/E. (J. I). Hooker.) 109 



coriaceous, greenish grey above, brown beneath ; nerves slender, nearly horizontal ; 

 petiole -j in., stout. Male panicles 3-3 in., branching from near the base, flowers 

 pedicelled, glabrous, yellow, black when dry ; anthers in a sessile broadly obconic 

 trigonous truncate mass, anther-cells incurved and meeting in a tricrural line. 

 Specimens of M. globularia from Amboyna show that this was erroneously referred 

 to that plant in " Flora Indica." From M. amygdalina, with which it was confounded 

 in " Flora Indica," the stamens at once distinguish it. 



20. BX. Griffith!!, Hook. f. ; glabrous except the finely pubescent 

 panicles and flowers, leaves 5-6 in. linear-lanceolate finely acuminate shining 

 above glaucous beneath, base acute, nerves 8-10 pair very faint, male 

 panicles slender, perianth globose ^ in. diam. 2-3-cleft, anthers 8 in a glo- 

 bose sessile mass, cells separable. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4356). SINGAPORE, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 

 1306). 



Leaves l|-lf in. broad, very coriaceous (smaller in Maingay's specimens), and 

 2^-3 by 1-1 i n -> P a ^ e brown above, very glaucous beneath with a reddish midrib ; 

 petiole \ in. Male panicle narrow, rachis and distant branches very slender, naked 

 below; flowers clustered, pedicel slender; anthers easily separable, curved, attached 

 by the back with free tips and sides ; cells confluent. Fruit ' racemed, size of a 

 cherry, pedicel in., pericarp thick with a deep longitudinal furrow ; aril white, as 

 long as the seed," Griffith mss. In Maingay's specimens fruit "elliptic or sub- 

 globose in. long dirty orange minutely scurfy, aril complete pinkish convolute 

 lacerate at the tip," Maingay mss. I cannot be certain of Maingay's and Griffith' s 

 plants being conspecific ; their foliage is identical, but this is all undistinguishable 

 from states of M. Farquhariand. 



21. 1H. Irya, Gcertn. Fruct. i. 195, t. 41 ; leaves 6-10 in. linear- or 

 elliptic-oblong acuminate glabrous, nerves 12-20 pair slender, perianth 

 globose 30 in. diam. glabrous 2-3-cleft, anthers 6-8 free in a ring crowning an 

 obconic receptacle, fruit panicled globose. Hook. f. fy T. Fl. Ind. 159 ; 

 Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 202; Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 2. 64; Beddome 

 Forest. Man. 176. M. javanica, Slume Bijd. 576, and Rumph. i. 190, t. 62. 

 M. sphaerocarpa, Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 79, t. 89, and Cat. 6796. M. exaltata, 

 Wall. Cat. 6804, in part. 



TENASSEEJM, Wallich. SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. MALACCA, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 4357), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1291, 1292). CEYLON, not uncommon. 

 DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



A tree, buds ashy. Leaves 2-3 in. broad, membranous at length coriaceous, dark 

 brown above, lighter beneath, base rounded cuneate or acute ; petiole | in. Male 

 panicles 3-6 in., very many-fld. ; fern, shorter, perianths larger. Fruit 1 in. diam., 

 glabrous ; pericarp coriaceous ; aril thin, entire, yellow or reddish, seed globose. 

 With the habit inflorescence and minute flowers of Sect. Pyrrhosa, this has nearly the 

 staminal column of a Knema. 



Sect. III. KLncma. Male flowers fascicled on the top of a short stout 

 peduncle or tubercle ; pedicels with a persistent bracteole about the middle 

 (under the flower in M. Cantleyana}. Anthers short, in a whorl round a 

 peltate disk. 



22. M. Hookeriana, Wall. Cat. 6802 A; branchlets very stout 

 leaves beneath and panicle most densely flocculent and woolly, leaves 1-2 ft. 

 at length glabrate and glaucous beneabh linear-oblong or narrowed down- 

 wards obtuse or acute, petiole short thick, nerves 20-30 pair, male fl. 

 in. diam. densely clustered on a short peduncle or tubercle 3-cleft, 

 anthers about 20 on the margin of a long-stipitate orbicular peltate disk. 

 Hook.f. Sf Thorns: FL Ind. 156 ; Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 204. 



