rtcivpyrum.] 70. roLYGONACEyE. 165 



PTEROPYRUM, Jaub. & Spach. 



Hispid shrubs. Leaves small, alternate or fascicled. Sheathing 

 stipule short or 0. Flowers small. Sepals 5. Ovary 3-angled ; 

 styles 3. Fruit a G-winged, beaked nut. 



P. Oliveri, Jaub. & Spach. 111. PI. Orient. II. 9. t. 108 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 

 23. Wight Ic. t. 180'J. Sind. Stocks. Fl. Sept., Oct. 



Order 71. MYRISTICEiE- 



Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, entire, usually dotted. Flowers 

 dicx3cious, regular, fascicled, utnbelled or panicled. Perianth deci- 

 duous, usually 3-lobed, lobes valvate in bud. Male fl. Anthers 3 or 

 more, connate in a sessile or stipitate column, head, ring or disc, 2- 

 celled. Female tl. Ovary superior, free, sessile, 1-celled ; style short 

 or ; stigma capitate, discoid or lobed ; ovule 1, basal, erect. Fruit 

 fleshy, opening in 2-valves. Seed more or less covered with a lobed 

 or lacerate, often coloured arillus ; testa thin, albumen hard, rumi- 

 nate. Embryo at base of seed, very small, cotyledons divaricate. 



MYRISTICA, Linn. 

 The only genus, same characters as the order. 



Male flowers bracteolate. 



Anthers elongate, connate, stipitate. 



Male dowers axillary, crowdetl on short, stont peduncles. M. lam-'ijolia. 



Male flowers in axillary, branched, trichotonious cymes. 31. malttbarka. 



Male flowers with the anthers on the edge of a peltate, 

 toothed, stiintate disc. Cymes fascicled on a short 

 peduncle M. attcnuata. 



Male flowers in spreading panicles, ebracteolate. 

 Anthers elongate, connate, stipitate M. Farqvhariana. 



M. laurifolia, Hook, f & T. Fl. Ind. 163 ; Fl, Br. I. 5. 103 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 267. M. Beddomei, G. King. Ann. Cal. Gard. III. 291. Jnjikai, 

 K. ; jayai>hal, M. Very common in the evergreen forests of the southern 

 ghats of North Kanara, also on the Konkan ghats. Fl.Nov., Dec. Fi-. June, 

 July. Fruit brown minutely pubescent, furrowed longitudinally. The 

 nutmegs Crcti)i^:>/(«Zj and mace (^mmpwfre,^ of this species are exported to 

 Bombay from North Kanara. 



M. malabarica, Lamk. in Act Par. 1788, 162 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 103 ; Dalz, 

 &Gibs. Bomb. F1.4; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 269; King Ann. Cal. Bot. 

 Card. Ill 288. In the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North 

 Kanara ghats, common in the Kumta tdluka forests. Fl. Nov., Mcb. 

 Fr. R.S. 



M. Farquhariana, Wall. Cat. 6795 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 108 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 270; M. canarica, Bedd. MSS. King Ann. Cal. Bot. Card. III. From 

 the Konkan southwards. Fl. Br. I. Not observed by me in North Kanara. 



M. attenuata, Wall. Cat. 6791 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 110 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 176 ; 

 King Ann. Cal. Bot. Card. III. 316; 31. coiticosa, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 271 

 (not of Hook. f. & T.) M. amygdaUna, Grrah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 175; 



