apex of a tubercle, like peduncle ; fruit size of a cherry, dark-red, 

 slightly hairy, ^-inch long. Thull Ghaut, Jowar forests ; flowers 

 in February and March. Syn. Uvaria cerasoides, Roxb. Fl Cor. t. 

 32, Ind. ii, 666. Native name " Hoom." 



2. G. Fragrans, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 206.— A tree ; 

 leaves oblong lanceolate, oval or ovate, sometimes obovate, 4 to 9 

 inches long, strongly nerved ; peduncles short, stout, much-branch- 

 ed, many-flovi'ered ; petals narrow linear, yellow, very fragrant; 

 carpels large, ovoid, hoary, ash-coloured, long-stalked. Jungles at 

 Sivapore, Warree country. 



5. SACCOPETALUM, Bennet. 



1. S. ToMENTOSUM, Hook. Fil. and Thorns. Flor. Ind. i, 

 152. — A tree; leaves oval or ovate oblong, acute, pubescent on 

 both sides ; pedicles slender, elongated, three exterior petals very 

 minute, all covered on the inside with white tomentum ; carpels 

 subglobose, one inch long, fulvous, tomentose. Hab. Tulkut 

 Ghaut. Syn. Uvaria tomentosa, Rox. Cor. PI t. 35. ; Flor. Ind. 

 ii, 667. 



IV. MYRISTICACE^. 

 1. MYRISTICA, Linn. 



1. M. Attenuata. Wall. Cat. 6791, Hook, and Thorns. Fl 

 Ind. i, p 157. — A tall tree; branches slightly scurfy ; leaves oblong 

 lanceolate, long attenuated, acute or rounded at the base, glaucous 

 beneath; peduncles axillary, few-flowered, disc flat, 12-lobed ; fruit 

 oval or oblong, 1 1 inch long, covered with tawny tomentum, aril 

 very thin. The Ghauts. M. Amygdalina, Graham Cat. p 175; 

 WaUich's specimens were received from Heyne. 



2. M. Malabakica, Lam. Aet. Paris, 1788, p 162.— 

 A tall tree ; branchlets glabrous, with a smooth, reddish bark ; 

 leaves narrow oblong, or elliptic lanceolate, male inflorescence 

 axillnry, dichotoraously cymose, many-flowered; flowers loosely 

 umbellate; fruit oblong, with a tawny hoariness, 2,^ to 3 inches 

 long. Dense woods of the Ghauts. Flowers November to Feb- 

 ruary. Blume. Rumph. i, 185 ; M. dactyloides. Wall. Cat. 6786 ; 

 Rheed. Hort. Mai. iv, t. 5. 



V. MENISPERMACE^. 



1. ANAMIRTA, Colebrooke. 



1. CoccuLUS, W. and A. Prod. 1, 466. — A twining shrub, with 

 thick corky bark ; leaves exactly cordate, glabrous, 4 to 8 inches 

 long; petioles elongated; panicles pendulous from thethicker branches 



