112 cxxvi. MYRISTICE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Myri&tica. 



27. HfL. laurina, Blume Rumph. i. 139, t. 61 ; branches inflorescence 

 and leaves beneath especially the nerves scurfily tomentose, leaves 9-12 in. 

 oblong or linear-oblong acute or acuminate glaucous beneath, nerves 20-30 

 pair, base rounded or cordate, fruit 2-3 in. long subsessile on tubercles of 

 the branch oblong-ovoid; pericarp thick densely scurfily tomentose, aril 

 scarlet entire except at the lacerate tip, seed oblong. Alph. DC. in Prodr. 

 xiv. 1. 206 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 70. M. tomentosa, Blume Biid. 577 

 (not of Thunb.}. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1294). DISTRIB. ? Java, Sumatra. 

 Without flower it is not possible to identify this, which may be a form of M.fur- 

 furacea, with any described plant. It agrees with Blume's figure and description of 

 M. laurina, except in the more numerous nerves, and very much longer fruit. A 

 plant from the Andamans, collected and named M. laurina by Kurz, resembles the 

 Malacca plant except in the fruit, which is that of glaucescens, to which I refer it. 



28. 1ME. intermedia, Blume Rumph. i. 187 ; glabrous except the in- 

 florescence and fruit, leaves 6-12 in. linear-oblong acuminate glabrous glau- 

 cous beneath, nerves 12-20 pair, male fl. in. diam. fascicled on tubercles 



' of the branches pedicelled 3-gonously globose scurfily tomentose 3-cleft, 

 anthers 12-18 on the toothed margin of a peltate disk with a pyramidal 

 boss, fruit pedicelled ovoid-oblong finely pubescent base intruded. Hook.f. 

 Sf T. FL Ind. 158 ; Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 206 ; Miquel FL Ind. Bat. i. 

 270 (excl. var. /3.). 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4359), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1281, 1288). 

 SINGAPORE, Lobb. DISTRIB. Java. 



Branehlets usually slender. Leaves narrow, -2^ in. broad, rarely elliptic-oblong, 

 very coriaceous, nerves strong, base acute obtuse or rounded, pale brown and shining 

 with very prominent closely reticulated nerves above ; petiole -f in., stout, quite 

 glabrous. Malefl. rutbus-tomentose, pedicel | in., stout, bracteolate in the middle ; 

 perianth subpyramidal ; staminal disk subsessile, circular or trigonous, central boss 

 3-gonous; anthers short. Fruit 1| in. long, broadly oblong with a groove on one 

 side, top rounded ; aril thin, entire except at the tip. The tubercles from which 

 the flowers spring are often diseased and present a mass of brown floccose hairs, 

 probably caused by insect puncture. 



29. EX. g-ibbosa, Hook.f. # Thorns. FL Ind. 158; glabrous except the 

 inflorescence and fruit, leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate at both ends 

 hardly glaucous beneath, nerves 15-30 -pair, male fl. pedicelled fascicled on 

 a peduncle urceolately campanulate 3-fid, anthers 10-12 on the margin of a 

 long-stalked circular disk, fruit pedicelled oblong base gibbous and intruded. 

 Alph. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 205. 



KHASIA MTS., G-riffith (Kew Distrib. 4348) ; near Churra, J. D. H. $ T. T. 

 PEGU, McClelland. 



Branehlets slender, glabrous. Leaves long and narrow, 1| -2 in. broad, thinly 

 coriaceous, nerves strong, pale brown, hardly shining above, sometimes a little glaucous 

 beneath, nerves slender ; petiole -f in., slender, glabrous. Male fl. % in. long, 

 rufous-pubescent, a good deal like the female of M. glaucescens, constricted below 

 the 3-fid limb; pedicel of antheriferous disk clavate. Fruit 1-1J in. long, rather like 

 M. intermedia, but gibbous at the base ; aril entire, except at the top. 



30. ZK V fur furacea, Hook.f. $ Thorns. FL Ind. 159; branchlets pe- 

 tioles and inflorescence densely scurfily tomentose, leaves 6-14 in. linear-ob- 

 long obtuse acute or acuminate glaucous beneath, nerves 1 0-40 pair, male fl. 

 fascicled on short peduncles or tubercles globosely 3-gonous 3-fid pedicelled, 

 anthers about 10 on the toothed margin of a 3-gonous peltate shortly 

 stipitate disk, fem. fl. larger sessile on tubercles, stigma sessile discoid 



