Mynstica."] cxxvi. MYRISTICE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) Ill 



or acuminate glaucous beneath, nerves 14-20 pair, male fl. fascicled on 

 a short peduncle, pedicels slender, perianth subglobose 3-fid in. diam., 

 anthers 12 on the toothed margin of a stipitate peltate disk, fruit ovoid 

 beaked. Hook.f. & Thorns. Fl. 2nd. 157 ; Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 205 ; 

 Beddome For. Man. 176. M. corticosa, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 271 (not ofH.f. 

 & T.). M. amygdalina, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 175 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl.. 



On the CONCAN GSATS, Heyne, Dalzel^&c. TBAVANCORE MTS., alt. 2-3000 ft., 

 Beddome. 



Branches slender, at length glabrous. Leaves 2-3 in. diarn., thinly coriaceous, 

 pale brown above ; midrib and spreading nerves beneath stout, tomeutose when young; 

 base acute or rounded : petiole -f in. Male peduncle in.; pedicels |-J in., 

 bracteolate above the middle. Female flower not seen ; pedicels of fruit about as long 

 as of the male fl. Fruit \-\\ in. long, ellipsoid or ovoid with a short point or beak, 

 densely furf uraceously rusty-tomentose ; pericarp thin ; aril entire, except towards 

 the lobed apex. Wallich's specimens (from Heyne) have nearly globose fruits ; the 

 Concan and Travancore ones have longer fruits with acute tips. 



26. UK. glaucescens, Hook. f. Sf Thorns. Fl. Ind. 157; branchlets 

 and inflorescence rusty-hoary, leaves 4-6 (rarely 12) in. linear-oblong obtuse 

 acute or acuminate glaucous beneath, nerves 12-20 pair, male and female fl. 

 few fascicled on a very short peduncle long-pedicelled, male perianth 

 subglobose, female turbinate, anthers about 10 on the toothed margin of 

 a subsessile peltate disk with a flat top, stigma subsessile peltate toothed, 

 fruit small subglobose, aril nearly complete. M. intermedia /. minor, Miquel 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 270. ? M. sumatrana, Blume Rumph. i. 187. M. corticosa, 

 in part, Hook.f. # T. I. c. 158 ; Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 205, in part; 

 Kurz For. FL 284. M. missionis ? & lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 6788, 6794. 

 ? M. angustifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 847. ? Knema glaucescens, Jack in 

 Mai. Misc. No. vii. 35, and in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 149 (not of Wallich}. 

 ? K corticosa, Lour. Fl. Coch. 742. 



TENASSEHIM, Griffith, Heifer (Kew Dlstrib. 4343, 4344, 4349), &c. ANDAMAN 

 ISLANDS, Kurz. SINGAPORE, Wallich. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Dlstrib. 4343) 

 Gumming (No. 2315), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1280, 1282, 1299). SINGAPORE, Wai- 

 lich, Murton. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 



I have retained the name adopted for this plant in the " Flora Indica," though 

 there is no certainty of its being the Knema glaucescens of Jack ; it, however, agrees 

 with it in the important character of its very small fruit, which is ovate- oblong as 

 described in the Flora, or nearly globose or ellipsoid (Kurz). It is no doubt the 

 M. lanceolata and probably missionis of Wallich ; the latter, from Heyne's Her- 

 barium, was probably collected in the Straits and sent to that missionary. Whether 

 it is the M. sumatrana of Blume and M. angustifolia of Roxburgh is altogether 

 doubtful. The copious specimens received since the date of the "Flora Indica," show 

 that the Tenasserim and Malayan plants included under M. corticosa in that work are 

 not different from M . glaucescens. With regard to M. glauca, Blume, referred also 

 in that work to M. corticosa, its fleshy aril divided low down should (according to 

 his plate) separate it from glaucescens, but Javanese specimens named glauca and 

 corticosa by Miquel and others only differ from the Indian plant in the larger 

 fruit, and Kurz describes the aril of corticosa, H. f. & T., as " blood-red somewhat 

 fleshy and lacerate ;" and as to Loureiro's Knema corticosa, much more complete 

 specimens are wanted before it can safely be identified with any Malayan species. 

 The Andaman specimen of Kurz has leaves fully a foot long.- The small leaves, sub- 

 globose male flowers ^ in. diam., and turbinate female ones in. long, together with 

 the subsessile or short styled peltate stigma, and small fruit | in. long, with their 

 furfuraceous pericarp and almost entire thin aril, well distinguish this species, 

 whose proper name can only be determined when more is known of the plants quoted 

 under it. 



