110 cxxvi. MYRISTICE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Myristica. 



PENANG, Wallich, Porter. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1279). 



Branches as thick as the fore-finger; wool tawny, \ in. thick, flocculeut. Leaves 

 very variable in breadth, narrowest 12 by 2 in., broadest 24 by 8 in., thickly 

 coriaceous, pale brown and shining above, wool on under-surface deciduous in large 

 flakes leaving the surface perfectly glabrous. Male fl. " crimson within," Maingay ; 

 pedicels -1 in. long, with a persistent bracteole about the middle; stamens pale rose, 

 filaments very short, anthers deflexed ; fem.-fl. not seen. Ovary " rusty tomentose; 

 stigma subsessile, disciform, concave, crenate-serrate," Maingay. Fruit 2 in. long, 

 ellipsoid, most densely woolly, perianth very thick; aril fleshy, lobed. Wallich's 

 6802 B, without flower or fruit, is probably Laurineous. 



23. fll. Cantleyi, HooJc.f. ; branchlets robust and petioles and young 

 leaves and inflorescence densely rusty-tomentose, leaves 9-12 in. oblong or 

 linear-oblong coriaceous glaucous beneath, nerves 20-30 pair strong, male fl. 

 clustered on a tubercle shortly stoutly pedicelled, perianth bracteolate at the 

 base 3-fid, anthers 6-8 on the margin of a stoutly clavately stipitate small 

 disk. 



SINGAPORE, N. Cantley. 



Branches stout with pale bark. Leaves 3-5 in. diam., dark brown above, young 

 clothed with flocculent rusty fugacious wool which is more persistent on the midrib 

 above, beneath finely pubescent (probably glabrate in age) ; petiole very short, stout. 

 Male fl. - 1 in. diam., with the pedicels ^-^ in. long ; bracteole orbicular, appressed 

 to the perianth ; perianth-lobes short ; staminal column small, anthers short sessile 

 separate. Fern. fl. And fruit unknown. This appears to be most nearly allied to M . 

 Hookeriana ; it differs from the other Indian species of this section in the bracteole 

 being close under the perianth. 



24. III. longifolia, Wall. Cat. 6801 ; branches scurfy or glabrous, 

 leaves 1-2 ft. linear or linear-oblong or obovate-oblong obtuse glabrous 

 glaucous beneath base rounded cordate or acute, nerves 20-40 pair stout, 

 male fl. clavate 5 in. diam. fascicled on a tubercle pedicelled 3-cleft, 

 anthers 12-18 on the teeth of a long- stipitate circular disk, style long 

 glabrous, stigma small toothed. M. longifolia, in part, Hoolc.f. $ Thorns. 

 Fl. Ind. 156 ; Alph. DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 204 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 283. ? M. 

 linifolia, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 847. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, in hot valleys, Thomson. ASSAM, SILHBT and the KHASIA 

 MTS., Wallich, &c. CEITTAGONG, J. D. H. Sf T. T. PEGU, MATABAN and 

 TENASSEEIM, Kurz. DISTEIB. Ava. 



A lofty tree, branchlets stout or slender, sometimes tomentose. Leaves extremely 

 variable, usually linear, 12-18 by 2-2| in., sometimes much broader, 18-24 by 6-7 in. 

 and narrowed below the middle, thickly coriaceous, pale yellow-brown and shining 

 above, nerves arched or nearly horizontal; petiole -\-\ in., stout, glabrous or tomen- 

 tose. Malefl. very variable in size, i-i in. diam., densely tomentose, scarlet within j 

 pedicel -f in., bracteole obscure; anther-disk concave or plane; pedicel grooved, 

 contained in the tubular base of 'the perianth ; anthers short, deflexed. Female 

 pedicels very short; ovary densely tomentose. Fruit 1-2 in. long, subglobose or 

 ellipsoid, tomentose; aril pale, thin, lobed above the middle. The Malayan plant 

 referred to under this species in " Flora Indica " is M.furfuracea. 



Var. erratica; leaves smaller 6-10 by H-2 in. M. erratica, HooTc.f. fy Thorns. 

 Fl. Ind. 156 ; Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 205. M. corticosa, Hook. f. Sf Thorns. 

 I. c. 156, in part. Khasia Mts. and Chittagong. I fear this is only a small-leaved 

 state of M. longifolia, and not even a variety ; the stigma is identical, and the character 

 taken from the top of the antheriferous disk being flat (in opposition to concave in 

 longifolia), cannot be relied on. The flowers are, however, much more trigonausly 

 globose, and the stalk of the anther-disk is shorter. 



25. M. attenuata, Wall. Cat. 6791; branchlets and inflorescence 

 furfuraceously tomentose, leaves 5-9 in. elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acute 



