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Mauritius, where the tree was reported to be indigenous. But it is now found that no 

 Myristica is indigenous to the Mauritius, and no species is described in Baker Flora 

 of that island and of the Seychelles. There is, however, wild in tho low hill i rests 

 of Perak a species, specimens of which agree with YVallich's No. 6800. It appears therefoi 

 probable that the Wallichian speeimens were derived from the Straits and not from 

 Mauritius. M. DeCandolle refers to this species specimens collect, i by Cuming in the 

 Philippines, but I have not seen these. 



Plate 106. Myristica bracteata, A. DC. 1, Branch with panicle of i »lo floweit 

 of natural size; 2, male flower; 3, male flower— lissected; 4, andro -ium — enlarged. 



Plate 107. Myristica bracteata, A. DC. 1, I '.ranch with ripe fruit; , section of 

 ripe fruit showing seed and its arillus — of natural size. 



2. Myristica Malaccensis, Hook. fil. Jl. Br. 1ml. v. 101. A glabrous tree; young 



branches rather slender. Leaves oblong or oblon^-clliptic, acme « r acuminate, usually 

 rounded but sometimes acute at the base; main nerves 1*» to '20 pairs lei :tli 8 t< 

 10 in.; petiole 'So to -5 in. Male j> uncle* solitary, from the axils of leaves or of fallen 

 leaves, 3 to 4 in. long, slender; flowers '\ in. long, on filiform pedicel* twice \ long M 

 themselves, in sub-cymose clusters; bractcoles large, renifohn, n i < • m branous, glabrous 

 with ciliate edges; 'perianth sub-globose, sub-inllated, very coriaceous, glabrou , its ap<* 

 with 3 broad, blunt, shallow teeth; andnecium much shorter than the perianth, broad, 

 sub-truncate, almost sessile; anthers about 7; their tips free, sub-aeuto. lh unknown. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distnl. 130). 



Known only by Dr. Maingay's scanty specimen* 



Plate 107 lis. Myristica Malaccensis, JIooL fit. 1, Branch \ h m panicle 



2 & 3, leaves and male panicles from other specimens—"/ % dunrt siu; 4, male flower; 



andrcecium; 6, bracteole— mlarge d. (Drawn, through t/ie courtesy of Mr. W. Tkmlt 



Dyer, F.R.S., from Maingay's original specimen in the Kew Herbarium.) 



3. Myristica fragrans, Routt. Hist. Nat. ii. 3, 233. A consid rable tro ; all 

 parts, except the ovary and young fruit, glabrous; young branches Blender, brownish. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, lanceolate or elliptic; the apex shortly 

 acuminate, the base cuneate; upper surface shinin the lox r dull, pal , mb-gtaeoue; 

 main nerves 8 to 10 pairs impressed above, prominent beneath, spreading; length 2-5 

 to 5 in., breadth 15 to 2*25 in.; petiole -4 to -6 in., slender. Male flow r* in slender, 

 loner pedunculate, slightly supra-axillary umbellate cymes, -75 to 1 2o in. 1 ttg. / mth 

 •2 in long, ellipsoid, sub-ureeolate, -labrous ; teeth short, triangular ; racteole ovate 

 Quickly deciduous and leaving an oblique, wavy, incomplete annuity ; pedi )ls slender, 

 25 to '5 in Andrcecium eylindric-ellipsoid, hardly apiculate, its s ilk a third of its 

 length ridded, glabrous; stamens about 12, narrow. Female flower* larger than the 



and in fewer-flowered umbels; perianth -i 



reflexed- ovary sessile, eylindric-ellipsoid, tapenng dightly upward,; tow, 17- 

 villous- stigmas 2, flat, broad, fleshy. Fruit broadly pyriforra sometime, apieulate, 25 





lo 



the t 



short 



to 3 in. 



Ion* and nearly as broad, glabrous; pericarp succulent; seed broadly 



W striate embraced to the apex by the red, fleshy, much laciniate arillus. Rook 

 areolate, striate embra f r ^ . ^ ^ 



fil Fl. Br. Ind v. 102 A.u ^ 



'"• -" ^ f • ion f 66 Bentleu &c Trim. Ml. PL iii. t. 218. M. officinalis 

 B r Um THl \e7£?**. i- 194, t. 4! (,,/. vn. ***); **. / t. W. 



tZofmf'BoT'Ma,., t. 2756, 2757. M. mosehata, Zta* k Act, Jl to, 17* p. 45i 





