226 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
and Waterfall Hill, Wray 1436!, 2034!: in hilly forests up to 900 m. 
alt., King’s Collector 3833!, 4640!, 5408!, 5801!, 6141!, 6620!, 
6631!, 6652!, 6932!, 7481!. SrLancor: Batu Tiga, Curtis 3768!. 
Maracca: Maingay K.D. 1290, 1293, 1302!, 1303!, 1306!; Hervey!. 
JOHORE: at Bukit Patani, Ridley 11029!. SrncarorE: Wallich 
6795!; Cantley 41; Ridley 2102!. 
Var. major, King. Young branches rather darker than in the 
typical form; leaves 12—1IS8 cm. long, larger than in the typicai 
form and more glaucous beneath, the nerves more distinct on the 
lower surface; panicles of 3 flowers rather long (6—8 cm.), the 
flowers larger (3°5—4 mm.); fruit larger, 2:5 cm. long, scarcely ridged 
on the side opposite the groove. 
PERAK: in hill forests, King’s Collector 6548!, 6622!, 6736!, 
7928!; at Thaipeng, Wray 2399!, 2695!. Mawacca: Griffith K.D. 
4355!. SInGAPORE: Ridley 102!, 3961!. 
Var. Griffithii, Warburg. Leaves with more distinct nerves: 
which are more oblique and interarch more conspicuously; male 
inflorescence less branching, nearly glabrous, the perianth scarcely 
half as big as in the type, 1:5—2 mm. in diam., glabrous within, 
andreecium smaller, ovoid-globular. Myristica Griffithii, Hook. f. 
Fl. Br. Ind. V. 109; King Ann. Calc. IIL. 305, t. 135. 
PenanG: at Moniot’s Road, etc., at 450 m. alt., Curtiss 2406!, 
2458!. Manacca: Griffith K.D. 4356!. 
3. Myristica, Linn. 
Dicecious trees with chartaceous or pergamaceous leaves, usually 
white or glaucescent beneath and often with a ferruginous tomentum ; 
main nerves confluent near the margin; transverse nervules often 
subparallel, scarcely distinct. Inflorescence of cymes, umbels or few- 
flowered panicles, axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves; bracts 
caducous; flowers rather large, urceolate or campanulate rarely 
tubular, pedicellate; bracteoles persistent, usually oblique, at the 
base of the perianth; perianth 3-toothed. Andreciuwm stalked: 
filaments connate in a column often produced beyond the anthers; 
anthers 12—30, elongate, connate to the column and to each other. 
Stigmas connate, bilobed. Fruit large, ovoid or oblong; pericarp: 
thick, succulent, rarely leathery; arillus laciniate almost to the base. 
Seed conform to the fruit; testa hard: albumen ruminate ; coty- 
ledons connate.—Distriz. South Asia from India to the Philippines, 
Polynesia and tropical Australia ; species about 80. 
