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THE SPECIES OF MYEISTIGA 



Imperfectly known species of which the position is uncertain. 



Fruit in long, las panicles," ellipsoid ;* leaves 'oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, 10 to 12 in. long. Evidently a Pyrrhosa or an Irya . 64. M. exaltata 



Fruit in long panicles like the last, ovoid, slightly oblique ; leaves 

 elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 6 to 8 in. long. Evidently closely allied 



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to M. exaltata 



65. M. racemosa 



Female perianth sub- accrescent and persistent at base of fruit ; fruit 

 ovoid; leaves oblong-lanceolate, tapering to each end, glabrous. 

 Probably a Pyrrhosa near M. Wallichii . . 66, If. paludicola. 



Leaves narrowly oblong, much elongate; petiole short, winged. 



Probably a Pyrrhosa . . 67. Jf. pendulina. 



Fruit gibbous at one side, apiculate; arillus very short and much 

 fimbriate ; leaves oblong-elliptic, 'blunt or retuse, felted and pale 

 underneath. A Knema, probably near M. oblongifolia 68. M. retusa. 





Sect /.—Eumyristica (Eumyristica, . Hook. fil. & Th. ; Eumyristica and 

 Caloneura, A. DC.) Male, floivers in cymes, umbels or few-flowered panicles 



perianth 3-toothed (4-toothed in if. Ceylanica), . with .a persistent, usually 

 oblique, bracteole at its base. Andrcecium more or less cylindric or fusiform ; 

 staminal column elongate, usually stalked ; anthers linear, elongate, usually 

 entirely connate to the column and to each other; occasionally their apices 



and more rarely their eds;es, free. Fruit large, ovoid or oblong ; the pericarp 





succulent, rarely leathery. 



1. Myristica bracteata, A. DC Prod. xiv. 1, 192. A tree 80 to 100 feet high 



glabrous, except the under surfaces of the midribs and nerves of the leaves and tl 



panicles. Leaves large, coriaceous, oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly and rather 

 abruptly acuminate; the base rounded or sub-truncate, often emarginate, rarely euneate ; 

 upper surface shining, the lower pale, glaucous, minutely adpressed-lepidote when young; 

 the nerves 20 to 30 pairs, spreading or sub-horizontal, interarching within the edge, 

 prominent beneath, scaly when young, but ultimately glabrous ; the midrib very stout ; 

 length 10 to 16 in., breadth 4 to 6 in.; petiole 1 to 1-25 in. Male panicles axillary, 

 or from the axils of fallen leaves, long-stalked, spreading, trichotomous, few-flowered, 

 the branches opposite, 4 to 6 in. long ; flowers globular, -25 in. in diam. ; pedicels slender, 

 scaly, -25 to -5 in. long; bracteole semi-annular to sub-orbicular, embracing half the 

 base of the flower ; perianth leathery, scaly-tomentose outside, glabrous within, urceolate, 

 the mouth gaping, with 3 broadly triangular, sub-acute teeth ; andrcecium on a short, thin 

 stalk, expanded at the base, cylindric, sub-apiculate, nearly as long as the perianth ; 

 thers 12 to 18, narrowly elongate. Female flower unknown. Fruit ellipsoid or oblon 



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when ripe, blunt at the apex, slightly narrowed at the base, minutely rufous-pubescent, 

 sub-furfuraceous, 3 to 3-5 in. long by 1'5 to 2 in. in diam. ; pericarp thickly coriaceous; 

 arillus thin, fleshy, extending to the apex of the seed, laciniate and areolate ; seed 



shining. Wall Cat 6800, A. Sr B. 



Perak: at low elevations on the hills. King's Collector Nos. 5513 & 6960; Scortechini 



No. 1872. 



Specimens of this plant were distributed by Wallich as No. 6800 of his 

 catalogue. These were derived partly from trees grown in the Botanic Garden, Calcutta 

 (where they were reputed to have been received from the Mauritius), and from the 



