234 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
the apex by the red, fleshy, much laciniate arillus. A. DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 1. 189; Bl. Rumph. I. 180, t. 55; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 53; 
Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. III. t. 218; Baill. Hist. des Pl. II. 498, tt. 
298—306; Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzenfam. III. 2. 41, fig. 35; 
Hook. £.. Fl. Br; Ind. V. 102; King im) Anni) Cale iy 287 ot: 
108; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. IV. 194; Brandis Ind. Trees, 524. 
M. officinalis, Linn.f. Suppl. 265; Gaertn. Fruct.1. 194, t. 41 (excel. syn. 
Rumph.); Hook. Exot. Bot. t. 155, 156 and Bot. Mag. tt. 2756, 2757; 
Spach Suites Buff. t. 143; Warb. Monog. Myrist. 458. M. moschata, 
Thunb. in Act. Holm. (1782) 45; Wall. Cat. 6785; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ITT. 
‘733; Bl. Bijdr. 575. M. aromatica, Lamk. in Act. Par. 155 (1788) 
tt. 5—7 and Ill. Gen.'t. 832; Roxb: Cor. Pl) 1 274 2o7— Pala” 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. II. 14,t. IV. The Nutmeg Tree. 
Cultivated in the Malay Peninsula. Prnane: Wallich 6785 E; 
King’s Collector 1677!; Curtis!. Mauacca: Griffith K. D. 4352!; 
Maingay K. D. 1285!. Sincapore: Cuming 2418!.—Distris. In- 
digenous in the Moluccas, cultivated in most tropical regions. 
I have thought it right to include the description of the true Nutmeg tree, 
so universally cultivated in tropical countries. t 
10. Mygistica crassa, King in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. IIT. 
293, t. 117 (1891). A large tree reaching 12 to 18 m. in height and 60 
-—90 cm. in diam. of stem; branches spreading; branchlets rather 
‘stout, very dark-coloured, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous ; oblong, 
elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, acute, rarely acuminate at apex, 
cuneate at base; both surfaces glabrous, the lower pale, subglaucous ; 
margins recurved when dry; 18—40 cm. long, 7—12 cm. broad; 
midrib prominent, especially beneath; main nerves 15—22 pairs, 
impressed above, spreading and interarching near the edge; reticula- 
tion obscure; petiole 2°5—3-5 cm. long, stout, channelled. Flowers : 
g in many-flowered tomentose sessile umbels from stout woody 
axillary peduncles about 5 mm. long; pedicels 5—7 mm. long, rather 
slender; bracteole orbicular-ovate, rugose, closely embracing half the 
flower on one side; perianth 5 mm. long, minutely rusty-tomentose 
without, glabrous within, ovoid when young, urceolate and slightly 
constricted about the middle when adult, the apex acute, 3-cleft to 
about one-third of its length, the teeth ovate-acute; androecium 
narrowly ovoid, apiculate, 3 mm. long, on a lepidote stalk of 2 mm ; 
anthers 14—18, linear: 2? not known. Fruit solitary or in clusters 
of 2—3, pedunculate, ovoid-globose, slightly pointed, the base 
rounded or subtruncate, minutely rufous-puberulous, 3°5—7-5 cm. 
