34 PHANEROGAMIA. 



"A middle-sized tree, with large leaves; the fruit of the size of a 

 peach, and more woolly." Branchlets as in No. 1, but less stout, and 

 smoother. Leaves oblong, or the larger lanceolate-oblong, 8 to 15 

 inches long and from 4 to 6 wide, rather coriaceous, rounded or 

 obtuse at the base, slightly or abruptly acute or acuminate, green above, 

 silvery-white underneath, where they are conspicuously feather-veined 

 with 14 to 20 pairs of straight ribs, which anastomose near the 

 margins; the veinlets obscure in young leaves, or sometimes mani- 

 fest. Petioles stout, an inch or an inch and a half long. Flowers 

 axillary; the staminate ones glomerate on the dilated apex of a very 

 short peduncle, apparently only 5 or 6 in number, on pedicels a 

 line long, and with an ovate bractlet subtending the perianth. The 

 latter is only a line and a half long, ferrugineous-puberulent. Andrce- 

 cium oblong, of '8 or 10 longitudinally united anthers. Pistillate 

 flowers occur (along with forming fruit) only in the specimens from 

 Tongatabu. These have short and very thick fertile peduncles, about 

 half an inch long, terminated by a globular forming fruit, beneath 

 which are borne a considerable number of sessile female flowers, with 

 a subglobose trifid perianth, and a globular ovary. The fruit-bearing 

 peduncles of some of the Samoan specimens likewise show indications 

 of having borne three or more female flowers., The full-grown fruit is 

 globose-ovoid, minutely tomentose. Seed an inch and a quarter long, 

 and 10 lines wide, enclosed in a deeply laciniate mace; the albumen, 

 &c. as in the genus. 



4. Myristica inutilis, Rich, in herb. 



M. foliis lanceolatis acuminatis basi subobtusis pluricostatis subtus ferru- 

 gineo-puberidis, adidtis albicantibus ; floribus supra-axiUaribus, mas- 

 culis atque fcemineis umbellato-congestis ; pedunculo brevissimo vel 

 subnullo; fructu oblongo puberido. 



Hab. Tutuila and Savaii, Samoan Islands ; abundant. Tongatabu. 



" A middle-sized tree," with slender branchlets. Leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 6 to 10 inches long, li to 21 inches in width, rather thin 

 in texture, obtusish at the base, copiously feather-veined after the 

 manner of all the foregoing species, and with the connecting veinlets 



