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Plate 112.' Myristica laurifolia, Rook. fil 4* Thorns. 1, Branch with a dehiscim; 



ripe fruit; 2, ripe fruit; 3, seed; 4, seed covered by its arillus; 5 & 6, sections of 

 seed; 7, male inflorescence — of natural size; 8, male perianth; 9, en d r <r e i u m — enlarged. 

 (Nos. I to 6 are copied from a drawing nude from fresh specimens kindly lent to 

 Dr. Trimen. f.e.s 



8. Myristica Beddomei, King. A tall tree; all part glabrous, except the under surfs 

 of the young leaves and the inflorescence at all stages; y<>ung branches rather slen 



dark coloured. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, acute; the b 



ded or suddenly 



face shining, lower dull, glaucous, the midrib vci 



stout; the 13 to 17 pairs of main nerves spreading, rutin r bold at tin ir bases, but faint 

 towards their interarching apices; length G to 10 in., breadth 25 to 3 r ) in., petiole S 

 to l f 25 in. Male flowers on stoutly pedunculate, woody, 8- to 20-floared, axill ry vrn< 

 peduncles '25 in., lengthening slightly with age; flowers on pedi" Is 1 in. Ion* • r sesti! 

 the bracteole sub-orbicular, tomentose, oblique, embracing a large part of the flower on 

 one side; perianth 2 in., ovoid, with 3 broad triangular teeth, extending to about a third 

 of its length, rufous-pubescent externally, glabrous within. Audi um short r than the 

 perianth, cylindric and bluntly apiculate; its stalk thick, grooved, varying with age from 

 I to 1 the length of the column; anthers 9 or 10, linear. Vemak flowers in axillary 

 cymes as in the males, but few-flowered; flowers sessile; perianth globular-urc -.late, 

 expanded below the 3 spreading ovate teeth, pubescent outside. Ocarg essile, glob 

 narrowed to the apex, adpressed-pubescent ; stigma sessile, large, slightly oblique, sub- 

 globose. Fruit solitary or in pairs, pedunculate, Ittb-globose, picnlate, OOI on ne 

 side along; the suture, 2-25 in. in dian..; pericarp minutely rufouspubescent, thick, 





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succulent; peduncle -25 in. long, very stout. 6*4 glob *, smooth, 1 ■ in. Ill dia ,. 



the arillus extending to its apex, red, fleshy. M. laurifolia, / Id. Fl. Sfhmk, t. 2tt, 



in part; Soot fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 103, in pari {tad. *fn. M. laurifolia, //. /. <V 77;., i in 



both citations). ■ , . . , it 



Peninsular India; Western Ghats from Canara to Travancorc, from the b so of the 



e to elevations of 5,000 feet. 



This species has been included under M. Imrifiha by Sir J. pli Hook* and 

 „el Beddome. It appears to me, however, to differ so much from the ( vlott 

 species to which H. f. & Th. originally gave that nan,,, that 1 have rental 1 to 

 7Z it into a species. The fruit of this is distinguished from the fru, 1 .1, of / 

 laurifolia H. f. & Th., and of M. Ceylanica, A. DC, by its more globular form and 

 2 more succulent pericarp, as well aa by its haves being gbiuco,, under,, h 

 clnel Beddome's figure of M. laurifol,, (FL Syl,, t 1 ff) u a mixture of the fru.t 

 c a.* wUh the leaves and flowers of M. Malabanca, Lamk. 



° f pL^llS MyTstica Beddomei, K*. I, »-* with male flowers; 2, young fruit 



Col 



r "7^ 9 rim fruit; 4, seed covered by its arillus-o/ natural me; 5, male fl, 

 aSSJ, " and-ium ; 7. female flower; 8, ovary-^i (ft. • * . 



ypiedfrom Beddome' s Fl. Sylc, t. 26- 



Mvmsmv MAGN.HCA, BM. Fl. ftfc, t. 208 A tree 90 to 100 feet high; 



benches stout, glabrous, the youngest deciduously rusty-pubesc.nt L , 



coriaceou blong to e.Hpticob.ong, acute or acuminate, the base rounded ; u per 



9. 



young 



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