Myritstica.'] cxxvi. MYRISTICBJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 113 



crenulate. Alpli. DC. in Prodr. xxiv. 1. 206. M. longifolia, HooJc.f. $ T. 

 Fl. Ind. 156 (the Malayan plant}. Knema glaucescens, Wall. Cat. 6810 

 (not of Jack}. 



PENANG, Porter. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4346, P4345), Maingay 

 (Keiv Distrib. 1287). SINGAPOEE, N. Cantley. 



Branchlets stout, older with black shining cracked bark. Leaves most variable 

 in size, f-lj in. diam., usually pale brown and shining above, base acute obtuse or 

 cordate ; nerves strong, arched ; petiole usually very short, thick, and thickly fur- 

 furaceous, but sometimes more slender and , glabrate. Malefl. about in. diam., 

 pedicels | | in., bracteolate about the middle ; antheriferous disk orbicular or 3-gonous, 

 flat; pedicel short but distinct. Fem.fl. ovoid, nearly ^ in. long; stigma concave, 

 many-toothed. Fruit 1 in. long, ovoid-oblong, densely scurfily tomentose ; pericarp 

 thick ; aril entire except at the tip. The black bark of the older branchlets seems 

 a good character for this species. Griffith's No. 4345, from Malacca, has very numerous 

 crowded flowers on a very short thick peduncle, with pedicel | in. long, and 18 anthers 

 on a less toothed disk. 



DOUBTFUL, IXDETEBMINABLE AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



M. FiNLAYSONlANA, Wall. Cat. 6793, is Melodorum fulgens H. f. & T. (see 

 vol. i. p. 82). 



M. EUGENLEFOLIA, Alph. DC. in Prodr. xxiv. 1. 190, described from leaf and 

 fruit only, and placed in Section Eumyristicece, is indeterminable. 



M. GLAUCESCENS, Wall. Cat. 6790, is Tetranthera venulosa, Meissn. 



M. HETNEANA, Wall. Cat. 6789; Alph. DC. I. c. 207, without flower or fruit, is 

 probably Laurineous. 



M. HOOKEEI, Wall. Cat. 6802 B, is undeterminable. 



M. INTEGRIFOLIA, Steud. Nom., is Myrica integrifolia, Wall. 



M. MICEANTHA, Wall. Cat. 6807 ; A. DC. I. c. 208, is a Siarn plant, and not Indian. 



M. MONTANA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 846 ; Wall. Cat. 6792, is referred by A. DC. 

 (Prodr. xxiv. 1. 190) to M. iners, Blume. It has not been found in British India. 



M. ? OBTUSIFOLIA, Wall. Cat. 6808; H.f. % T.Fl. Ind. 163; A. DC. I. c. 194, 

 from Singapore, is indeterminable. 



M. SAPID A, Steud. Nom., is Myrica sapida, Wall. 



M. SESQUIPEDALIS, Wall. Cat. 6809 "an Laurin. fam.," from Penang, is Actino- 

 dapline sesquipedalis, Hk. f. & T. 



MYEISTICA ? Wall. Cat. 9017, from Silhet, Gomez, is not of this genus. 



MTEISTICA ; Malacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1298), in fruit only, is a very 

 fine probably new species, with very coriaceous large glabrous leaves rounded at the 

 base, dark brown when dry, and oblong fruit 2J in. long, in large long-peduncled 

 panicles ; pericarp very thick ; seed ellipsoid, 2 in. long, beautifully mottled, pale 

 brown and white. The following is Dr. Maingay's description of the fruit : " ovoid- 

 elliptic, 2 by $ in. , dark green, perfectly glabrous, dotted with black ; seed 2 in., 

 cylindric-elliptic ; aril complete, fleshy, blood-red, tip lacerate." 



MTEISTICA; Malacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1301), has slender pale glabrous 

 branchlets with finely tomentose fulvous tips ; elliptic pale greenish leaves 2 -3 in. long, 

 shining above paler beneath with 6-10 pair of very slender nerves ; fruit ovoid, 1-1 in. 

 long, long-peduncled, fascicled on a tubercle of the stem, keeled on one side and gibbous 

 at the intruded base, pericarp thin, aril entire, seed small ovoid. The following is 

 from Dr. Maingay's notes: "Fruit elliptic-ovate, 1J by 1 in., suddenly narrowed into 

 a short stalk, keeled at the suture of the valves, pale greenish-orange, rusty- 

 puberulous; seed / by $ in. elliptic ; aril complete, blood-red, tip lobulate, testa pale 

 membranous, tegmen crustaceous.' 5 



MTEISTICA; Singapore, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1297), closely resembles H.fur- 

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