OF BBHI-H INDIA. 



295 



Andaman Islands: at Mount Harriet, elevation 1,200 feet ; Kurz, KingU Collector. 



Plate 115. Myristica Andamanica, Hook. , Branch with male flowers; 2 & 3 



ripe fruit; 4, section of ripe fruit; 5, seeds covered by arillus— of natural tize; 7, maL 

 flower and androeciuin— enlarged. 



15. Myristica elliptica, Wall. Cat. 6798J. A tree GO to 80 feet high : \oung 



branches rather slender, pale, at first rusty-puberulous, afterwards glabrous like all 

 the other parts. Leaves thickly coriaceous, pale when dry, elliptic, oblong- lliptir t-> 

 linear- oblong, shortly and rather bluntly acuminate, acuto or sub-acute; the base 

 cuneate, slightly unequal ; upper surface sinning, the lower dull, pale, glaucous ; ucrfet 

 8 to 12 pairs, slender, sub-ascendinir, midrib stout; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 175 

 to 3 in.; petiole '5 to '75 in. Male flowers in shortly pedunculate, ilightlv Mipra- 



ary umbels rather longer than the petioles; pedicel* 1 to *2 in.; hrucieole iub- 



orbicular. Perianth *35 in. long, elongate and narrowly tubular, sub uroeoltite, divid 

 for \ to \ its length into 3 narrowly ovatc-acuto teclh, with many Mack glandular 



dots on both surfaces; puberulous or glabrous outside, glabrous within. Andrmium 

 cylindric, nearly as long as the tube ; the stalk short and as thick as the column ; 

 anthers about 10, linear. Female flowers umbellate like the males ; perianth distinctly 

 urceolate ; the lobes ovate, blunt ; ovary sessile, nd proved pubescent, eloiigate»ovoid, 

 tapering above into the oblique lateral stigma ; stylo 0. Fruit oblong, rid ed along 

 the suture, slightly gibbous, 25 to 3 in. long, glabrous; pedicel proper -25 in. long, 

 stout ; pericarp rather thick, succulent ; arillus enveloping the whole of the cylindric 

 tapering seed but much laciniate at the sides, rather succulent, red. Hook. fit. 

 Thorns. Fl. Ind. 162 ; Hook. fil. FL Br. J I. v. 102 ; A. DC. in Vr I xiv. 1, 190 



Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pi. 2, 58. M. calocarpa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ft, 2, 71 ; St >pL 

 383 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 48. M. sycocarpa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I pt. 2, 68 



Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 48. 



Miquel's type specimens of M. calocarpa from Sumatra and Borneo agree with 

 this perfectly, and he himself reduced M. sycocarpa here (Ann. Mm. Lugd. Bat. ii. 48). 

 L is comes very near M. succedanea, Reinw. (Rumphia i. 186 ; Miq. Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. 

 2 56- Sc Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 56), which has, however, rufous-tomentose 



Thi 



pt. 



fruit 





Penang and Singapore, Wallhh, Hidhf. Malacca, Maingay (/ w DUrib. 1296) 



Perak, King's Collector, Wray, Scortechhi. 



Plate 113. Myristica elliptica, Wall 1, Branch „itl. male flower* ; 2, r.pe fnut 

 of natural size ; 3, male flower and andrceciun, ; 4, fcmale-<n^i. 



16 Myristica suavis, n. sp. King. A tree ; all parts glabrous, except the minutely 



nubescent leaf-buds and flowers ; young branches rather stout, cmerous, stnate, the tip. 

 dark coloured and smooth. Leaves coriaceous, effipt- -'°— W -,».„ at e.ther end. the 



base slightly nnequal-sided ; upper surface glabrous, dull, the lower paler ; mam nerves, 

 20 to 25 pairs, rather straight, spreading, their ap.ces evanescent ,mpre»ed on the 



fpp but bom' and prominent on the lower surface; length 6 to 9 m., breadth 2 to 

 2 25 1 Petiole 1 in , stout, channelled in front. Mat. flover, 2 to 4, on short woody 



1 from the axils of the leaves, or close together on the branches below the 

 racemes from , th «* « £ _ > ^^ ^ half . orbicular) embracing the base 



oTthe : flower on one side. Perianth narrowly campanulate, cut half-way down into 3 



