Adinodaplme.'] cxxvm. LAURIXE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 151 



nerved coriaceous elliptic-oblong rounded at both ends glaucous beneath 

 minutely impressedly reticulate, nerves 6-8 pair very slender raised on both 

 surfaces, male fl. large in sessile clusters stoutly pedicelled. A. glauca, 

 /3. Walkeri, Meissn.. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 213. 



CEYLON, Walker. 



Branchlets petioles and strong midrib beneath rusty-tomentose. Leaves 4-6 in a 

 whorl ; petiole in., stout. Male fl. $ in. diam., tomentose, pedicels in. slender. 

 Bracts about 14, 5-fld. Perianth villous without and at the base within. Filaments 

 woolly at the base. Ovary and slender style glabrous. This is the plant (the specimen 

 indeed) described by Nees as A,. glauca, and which Meissner referred to a variety of the 

 glauca of Thwaites, which again is a different plant (my pisifera). Nees describes 

 the leaves as glaucous above (no doubt a slip), and as " scrobiculo-reticulata," allud- 

 ing to the impressed minute reticulation which in a less marked degree is not un- 

 common in the genus. 



14 A. pisif era, HooJc. f. ; o^uite glabrous, branches slender, leaves 

 23 in. whorled penninerved elliptic-oblong obtuse impressed punctate on 

 both surfaces glaucous beneath with 6-8 pairs of nerves, unopened clusters 

 of flowers solitary sessile pisiform quite glabrous 5-fld. bracts eciliate. A. 

 glauca, Thivaites Enum. 256 ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 213, not of Nees ; 

 Beddome For. Man. 186. 



CEYLON ; at Pedrotafcagalla, alt. 7-8000 ft., Thwaites (C. P. 2536). 



A tree, 30-40 ft. (Thwaites). Leaves in Thwaites' indifferent specimen thinly 

 coriaceous, with recurved margins, base acute ; petiole J in., very slender. Unex- 

 panded clusters of flowers in. diam., quite globose, pale, with about 14 perfectly 

 glabrous bracts, the outer smallest. Sepals 6, substrigosely hairy in bud. Filaments, 

 ovary and style quite glabrous. This is quite distinct from A. glauca in the slender 

 glabrous branches, and in the flower-buds, which are scattered like small peas along 

 the branches, and by the glabrous eciliate bracts. Stamens young, but apparently 

 quite glabrous. Thwaites describes the fern. fl. as \\ line long, with the 2-line long 

 pedicels rusty-hairy ; the sterile stamens as spathulate, acute, glabrous, and the fruit 

 as subglobose, on the slightly enlarged crenulate perianth. I have described from 

 C. P. 2536. 



tf Female flowers in peduncled umbels or clusters; or mixed, some 

 pedicelled simply, others umbelled on peduncles in the same inflorescence. 

 (See also A. madraspatana, lanata Sf Hookeri.) 



15. A. sesquipedalis, Hook.f. fy Thorns, in Herb. Ind. Or. ; branches 

 very robust tomentose, leaves whorled penninerved very coriaceous 1-2 feet 

 linear or oblanceolate acute shining above subglaucous beneath, nerves 

 15-20 pair strong venules or faint, fern. fl. solitary and umbellate on 

 short peduncles in the same cluster, fruit globose on a broad flat entire or 

 5-crenate disk. Litsaea macrophjdla, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 305 (not ofSlume). 

 Myristica sesquipedalis, Wall. Cat. 6809. 



TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. PENANG, Wallich. 



Branches as thick as the fore-finger, terete, smooth, finely pubescent, young vil- 

 lously hirsute. Leaves many in a whorl, 2-7 in. diam., dark brown and glossy above, 

 the largest more membranous, base very acute, finely pubescent beneath, at length 

 glabrous, surfaces not reticulate, midrib impressed above, but not the nerves ; petiole 

 very stout, |-1 in. Flowers not seen. Fruit in clusters of 2 in, diam., globose, 

 f -1 in. diaui., shining; peduncles and pedicels in,, very stout, hard, pubescent; dis- 

 ciform enlarged and thickened perianth hard, rugose outside, flat and smooth on the 

 face. Kurz has referred this to Blume's Litscea macrophylla, which differs in the 

 much smaller leaves not narrowed at the base and short petiole. 



16, A* XVXaingrayi ? Hook. /. ; branches very robust, leaves whorled 



