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Plate 122. Myristica Horsfieldii, Illume. # 1, Branch with male panicles; 2, 

 vertical section of a glomerulus of male flowers— of natural size; 3 & 4, male flowers 

 3 and 4-cleft; 5, vertical section of flower showing androecium— enlarged. 



Plate 123. Myristica Horsfieldii, Blnme. ? 1, Branch with ripe fruit; 2, vertical 

 section of ripe fruit and seed— of natural size; 3, panicle of female flowers; 4, ovary 

 after the fall of the perianth — enlarged. [All copied from a drawing kinaly lent to mi 



by Dr. Trimsn, f.r.s., of the Peradeniya Bo tanieal Garden.) 



Sect. II. — Pyrriiosa (Pyrrhosa, Blume). Male /lovers minute, in many 



flowered, branching, often large and spreading, panicles ; perianth ebracteolate 

 usually 3-toothed, sometimes 4-toothed ; andrmciuw short, sub-globular or 



onous, rarely cylindric, usually sessile ; anthers not elongate, completely attached 

 to the column by their backs, the apices sometimes free for a short way. 

 Fruit globose or ovoid-globose ; the pericarp usually leathery and only slightly 

 succulent. 



18. Myristica fulva, n. sp. King. A tree ; young hranches rather stout, pale brow 

 slightly rough, scurfy, rufous-puberulous when very young. Leaves very coriaceous, 



ptic-oblong, slightly obovate, sub-acute, the base cuneate; both mi i faces dull, pale 

 brownish (when dry), the lower the paler; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, .stout, rather 

 straight, spreading, the petiole and the midrib on both surfaces scurfy rufous-pube- 

 scent otherwise glabrous; length 5 to 6-5 in., breadth 1'75 to 2'35 in.; petiole '25 



to *4 in. stout. Male flowers from the young branches below the leaves, in crowded 



preading, many-flowered, scurfy, stellate-pubescent, rufous panicles, 2 to 3 in. long, 

 Flowers elongate-ovoid or slightly obovoid, '15 in. long; perianth leathery, glabroui 

 on both surfaces, divided for £ or £ of its length into 3 broadly triangular teeth 



sessile, cylindric, slightly apiculate ; anthers about 10, 1 in ear-el ongatt 



Andi 



connate from base to apex. Female flowers unknown. Fruit from the branches bel 

 the leaves, solitary, on woody, warted, often curving peduncles 5 in. or more long 



oid 



pressed, slightly pointed, glabrous, 1 in. long and -75 in. in diam.j pericarp 

 thick, 7 sub-succulent, dehiscing into 2 divaricating valves; arillus thin but tough, entire, 

 completely enveloping the broadly ovoid seed; testa shining, thin, the rugulose albumen 

 appearing through it. 



Malacca: Mainaay {Km Distrib.) No. 1304. Perak, Scorkchini No. 184 A 



Maineay's MSS note on the fruit of his No. 1304 is as follows :— " Fruit cub dobose, 



ub „ a ia glabrous, pale yellowish; pericarp thick, fleshy, -2 to "3 in. thick; aril 



com lete* slightly lobed at the top, clear reddish-orange ; testa slightly crustaceous, 



1,8,6 P^tTi 24 Myristica fulva, King. 1 , Branch with panicles of male flower* (from 

 Score's specimen No. IMA); 2, fruit (from Maingay's No. 1304)-./ natural >Ue; 

 3 male flower; 4, androecium-<«k^. 



19 Mr™™ mm *■«*■ * «■ Br - ** v - 105 - A *7 70 tl fCPt !'*';; 



\ h« stout rustily-tomentose, as are the young leaves beneath and the 

 3L til Sy coriacU oblong or el.ipticoblong, acute, the ba S e rounded 



