CVril. MTEISTICACE-E. 531 



liuear. Female flowers sessile, in axillary few-flowered cymes. 

 Perianth globular-urceolate, expanded below the 3 spreading ovate 

 teeth, pubescent outside. Ovary sessile, globose, narrowed to the apex, 

 appressedly pubescent ; stigma sessile, large, slightly oblique, sub- 

 globose. Fruit 2\ in. in diam., solitary or in pairs, subglobose, apicu- 

 late, grooved on oue side along the suture ; pericarp minutely rut'ous- 

 pubesceut, thick, succulent ; pedicels ^ in. long, very stout. Seed 

 globose, smooth ; aril red, fleshy, extending to the apex. Myristica 

 laurifoUa, Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 267 ; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 103 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 280 ; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 367, all in part (not of Hook. f. & Thorns.).— Flowers : Dec- 

 Feb. A'^ERX. Jdyphal ; Jajikai. 



KoNKAN : Ghdts, Talbot. Kanaka : comrnou in the evergreen forests of the Southern 

 Ghdts of N. Kauara, Talboi; Chandavar (N. Kanara), Woodrowl; Katgal (Karwar 

 districts), Kani/kar I — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



I have followed Sir George King {/. c.) in separating this from M. laurifoUa, Hook. f. 

 & Thorns., which name is restricted to the Ceylon plant. 



3. Myristica magnifica, Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. (1872) t. 263. A 

 tree 90-100 ft. high ; bark smooth ; trunk when young furnished with 

 large aerial roots, which start from the trunk 10 or 20 ft. from the 

 ground and are about g in. thick at the ends, afterwards developing 

 into buttresses. Leaves coriaceous, 12-24 by 3|-8 in., elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, acute or acuminate, glabrous and shining above, silvery beneath, 

 base rounded ; main nerves 20-26 pairs, prominent on the lower side, 

 impressed above, curving upwards and looping within the margin ; 

 petioles 1 in. long, stout, channelled. Male flowers in dense 8-15- 

 flowered clusters from very short woody axillary tubercles ; buds ovoid, 

 their bases on one side embraced by a semiorbicular sericeous bracteole; 

 pedicels -^ in. long or 0. Perianth ^ in. loug, ovoid-globose, silky- 

 tomentose outside, glabrous iuside ; teeth 3 or 4, sharp. Staminal- 

 column much shorter than the perianth, with a short hairy stalk, 

 ovoid-cylindric, bluntly apiculate ; anthers about 15, narrow, slightly 

 unequal in length. Female flowers unknown. Fruit 3-4 by 2 in., 

 solitary or in pairs, axillary, pedicellate, rufous-puberulous, ovoid ; 

 pedicels very stout, |— | in. long ; pericarp thick, fleshy. Seed 2 by 1 in., 

 subcylindric or ellipsoid, striate ; aril narrowly laciniate from near the 

 base, its segments much conduplicate at the apex. Fl, B. I. v. 5, p. 104 ; 

 King, in Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 3, part 3 (1891) p. 291, t. 119 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 280. 



Eare. Kanaka : near MalamAni on the Gairsoppa Ghdt in evergi-een forests, 

 Talbot. — DisTKiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



4. Myristica attenuata. Wall. Cat. (1828) 6791. A tall ever- 

 green tree ; youngest branches and inflorescence covered with golden 

 or tawny furfuraceous deciduous tomentum, ultimately glabrous and 

 striate, slender ; bark scaly, coming off in patches exposing a brown 

 surface beneath, the inner bark with much red juice. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, 5-9 by l|-2g in., elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, glabrous and shining above, pale and glaucous beneath, 

 base rounded or shortly cuneate ; main nerves ]2-20 pairs, prominent 

 beneath ; petioles |-| in. long. Male flowers obovate-globose, j in. 

 in diam., in 3-6-flowered shortly pedimculate axillary umbels ; pedicels 



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