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Myristka, and the first is by Willdenow (Sp. Pi. iv. 871), 
called M.' salicifolia ; but he would not appear to have seen 
specimens, and M. Poiret quotes Rumphius as the only- 
authority (Enc. Meth. Sup. iv. 34). 
On the hills near Goalpara, by the Brahmaputra river, 
I have found a species of Myristlca^ which, on account of 
the form of the mace, is nearly allied to this ; but its leaves 
are much broader than the figure of Rumphius indicates. 
It may, however, be the Cotriman, and therefore I shall 
here describe it. The Bengalese call it Jharaya mnara, 
I have not seen the flower. 
Arbor altissima. Ramuli cicatricibus iiodosi, non pubescentes. FoKa 
alterna elliptica, utrinque acuta, integerrima, glabra, vix costata, venosa. 
Petiolus brevissimus, compressus, supra marginatus, glaber, non stipu- 
laceus. 
Pedunculus fructiferus e parte ramorum nudata racemosus, baccis 
instructus quinque s. sex pedicellatis, pendulis. 
Bacca ? supera, oblique obovata, compressa, sulco iongltudinali e 
medio unius lateris, ad basin alterius inscripta, carnosa, glabra, unilo- 
cularis ; matura sulco dehiscente leguminiformis. Receptaculum nul- 
lum. Semen ope arilli ad latus baccse ubi sulcus deficit, adhaerens, uni* 
cum, oblongum, utrinque obtusum, nucamentaceum, arillatum. Aril- 
lus inodorus, carnoso-coriaceus, croceus, monophyllus, bilamellosus, 
utrinque glaberrimus, semen undique obtegens. Integumenta tria : 
exterius membranaceum, politum, venosum, tenue, arete ad medium 
adhserens ; medium Naucus tenuis, fragilis, castaneus ; interius mem- 
branaceo-crustaceum, subrufescens, ad nucleum arctissirae adnatum, et 
intra ejus substantiam processibus internis alte demersum. Albumen 
semine conforme, carnosum, ruminatum, inodorum. Embryon mini- 
mum, ad unum albuminis latus, medium prope, situs. 
This genus has a considerable afiinity to the Sterculia^ 
from which it differs in wanting stipula?, and in a simple 
fruit. Still, however, it comes nearer to the Sterculia than 
it does to the Laiirus, 
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