530 CYITI. MYKISTICACE.T. 



Male llowers in very shortly pedunculate axillarr 3-G-flowered 

 umbels ; perianth deeply cleft ; pedicels with a bracteole 

 about the middle; staniinal column peltate, subconcave; 

 anthers attached by short filaments to its edge, radiating 

 from the edge of the flattened coluuin and dehiscing down- 

 wards ; aril entire; fruit shortly pointed, 1-1^ in. long 4. M. attenuata. 



1. Myristica malabarica, Lamh. in Mem. Acad. Sc. Par. (1788) 

 p. 162. A moderate-sized tree, all parts but the inflorescence glabrous ; 

 bark smooth with small lenticular spots, the inner bark with much red 

 juice {Talbot) ; young branches very thin, pale. Leaves thinly coria- 

 ceous, 4-() by l^-2j in., oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, shining 

 above, dull beneath, base acute ; main nerves 8-14 pairs, slender, not 

 vei-y prominent ; petioles |-^ in. long. Male flowers in slender open 

 2-3-cliotomous axillary or lateral subumbellate cymes 1-2 in. long ; 

 buds i in. long, ovoid-globose ; peduncles long, slender ; pedicels 

 1— J; in. long, slender, puberulous ; bracteole snuill, suborbicular, closely 

 .ippressed to tlie base of the flower at one side. Perianth minutely 

 scurfy-puberulous outside, glabrous inside ; teeth short, triangular. 

 Staminal-columu stalked, apiculate ; stalk about i the height of the 

 column, tomentose ; anthers 10-14, linear. Female flowers more 

 globose and larger than the males, in few-flowered axillary umbels 

 scarcely longer than the petioles. Perianth-teeth ovate. Bracteole 

 forming a narrow imperfect cup round the base of the perianth. Ovary 

 sessile, ovoid-globose, pointed, densely rufous-tomentose ; stigma large, 

 sessile, 2-lobed. Fruit elono^ate, oblong, pointed, densely rufous- 

 tomentose, 2-2^ by 1-1^ in. Seed oblong, olttuse, slightly flattened on 

 one side; testa shining; aril yellow, irregular!}' lobed and laciniate, 

 extending to the anex of the seed. PI. B. 1. v. 5, p. 103 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 4; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 269 ; King, Iti Ann. liov. Bot. Gard. Calc. 

 V. 3, part 3, p. 288," t. 109 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 280 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 367 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 5, p. 314. Myristica tomentosa, Grab. Cat, p. 175 {not of Hook. f. & 

 Thorns.). — Flowers : Nov.-Mar. Yeen. Rdn-jdyphal ; Kdyphal. 



KoNKAN : evergi-een forests of the Konkan Glints, Talhot : Malw.-in, Gibson ! 

 Kanaka: common in the forests of the Knnipta taUika, Talhct \ Cliandavar (N. 

 Kanara), Woudrow\ — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula in wet forests at the base of 

 hills). 



Both the yellowish Mace and the Nutmegs are exported from N. Kanara to Bombay, 

 and the former is said to be exported thence to the Continent (chiefly to Germany) as 

 an adulterant for true Mace. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1, c. 



2. Myristica Beddomei, King, in Ann. Hoy. Bot. Gard. Cal. v. 3, 

 part 3 (1891) p. 291, t. 118. A tall evergreen tree, glabrous except 

 the underside of the leaves iind the inflorescence ; bark smooth. Leaves 

 coriaceous, 0-10 by 2|-3| in., oblong or ellii)tic-lanceolate, acute, 

 shining above, dull and glaucous beneath, base rounded or suddenly 

 cuneate ; main nerves 13-17 pairs; petioles f-l^ in. long. JMale 

 TLOWEES in pedunculate woody 8-20-flowered a.^illary cymes; peduncles 

 short, stout ; bracteole suborbicular, tomentos(% oblique, embracing a 

 large part of the perianth on one side ; jiedicels ^s i"- ^^^S '^^ ^* 

 Perianth ^ in. long, ovoid, rufous-pubescent outside, glabrous inside ; 

 toetli 3, broadly triangular, about ,'-,y in. long. Staminal-column shorter 

 than the perianth, eylindric, bluntly apiculate, stalk(>d ; antliin-s 9 or 10, 



