MYRIST1CA, Lot. 



DlGECIOUS 



or shrubs 



with 



ergreen 



sim] 



iltcrnatc 



penni-nerved, sometimes pellucid-punctate leaves. Flo 



pu 



males in a 

 or panicles 



small, regular ; the 



ry or supra-axillary, often bracteate, cymes, f, 

 ely 



u ml 



in 



acemes 



the 



dividual ilowers sometimes bractcolate 



Perianth gamophyllous, single, inferior, coriaceous, deciduous, usually 3-Iobcd, 



(or even 30 or 45), 2-celled, ovate or linear, usually sessile ; attached 



sometimes 2 or 4-lobed ; the aestivation valvate. Hale flower ; anthers 3 to 1 



their 



backs to a central, vertical, cylindric or angled, sessile or stalked column ; free 

 from each other or connate ; or (sect. Enema) attached by their bases, either 

 with or without short filaments, to the edges of a peltate stipitate disc ; always 

 extrorse ; rudimentary pistil none. Female flower without staminodes (except in 



No. 16). Ovary sessile in the fundus of the perianth, free, 1-celled. 



Stigma 



usually sessile (rarely with a short style), capitate or depressed, sometimes 

 lobed. Ovule solitary, basal, erect, anatropous. Fruit more or less fleshy, often 



splittin 





into 



sometimes 



into 



valves. 



Seed 



erect ; arillus fleshy or 



membranous, entire, lobed, or laciniate and often induplicate at the apex; 

 usually coloured and often aromatic ; testa usually thick ; albumen copious, 

 hard ruminate. Embryo very small, next the hilum ; cotyledons divaricate, 

 flat or crumpled ; radicle short, inferior. 



Sect /.— Eumyristica (Eumyristic 



Hook. fil. & Th 



Eumyristica and Caioneura 



A. DC.) 



Male flow 



in cymes, 



bels or few-flowered pani 



perianth 3-toothed 



(4-toothed in 



M. Ceylanica) with a persiste 



Uy oblique, bracteole at its base 



andrceciuni more or less < 

 anthers linear, elongate, 

 occasionally their apices 

 obloDg; the pericarp sue 



ylindric 



fusiform ; staminal column 



mally stalked 



Hy entirely connate to the column and to each oth 



? 



and more rarely their 



free 



Fruit large, ovoid, or 



culent 



ly leathery 



Male flowers in pani 



les 4 or 5 in. long ; flowers and bracteoles large 



leaves 10 to 16 in. long ; fruit large 



1. M. bractcata. 



Male flowers in 



lax little-branched panicles, 3 in. 



long (several 



times 



10 in. long 



longer than the leaf-petioles) ; flowers small ; leaves 8 to 



2. M. Malaccenais. 



