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THE SPECIES OF MYRISTICA 



cordate upper surface glabrous, shining; the lower, when adult, glaucous and quite 



or cordate, upp 



dabrous- main nerves 17 to 80 pairs, spreading, impressed above, prominent beneath 

 length 10 to 13 in., breadth 3-25 to 5 in. Male panicles stout, shortly pedunculate, 

 den°sely-nowered, 1 to 2 in. long; perianth -2 in. long, ovoid in bud, campanulate 



open, deeply divided into 3 ovate, sub-acute teeth, rufous-tomentose both outside 



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and inside; andreecium sessile, cylindric, truncate; anthers about 9, linear, slightly 



free at their edges, the apices free and apiculate. Female fljwer and fruit unkno 



Singapore and Malacca : J. H. Murton. 



The° above description is copied mainly from Sir Joseph Hooker (in F. B 



The only specimen which I have seen is that from which the drawing was made 





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It was collected at Malacca. Its single fascicle of male flowers is detached. 

 the ticket which accompanies it there is written this note:— "A tree 70 feet high 



bea.— 



very large fruit, some 3 inches in diameter ; leaves only, the tree not having 

 flowered or fruited this year." The leaf part of the specimen resembles M. bracteata, 

 A. DC, but the flowers are unlike those of any other that I have seen. 



Plate 124 for. Myristica Murtoni, Hook, fil. 1, Leaf-twig; 2, fragment of a 



pan 



of male flowers— 0/ natural size ; 3, male flower ; 4, andreecium— enlarged 



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Myristica fbbruginea, Wall. Cat. 6803. A tree; young branches stout, densely 



ered -with very short, rufous tomentum, beneath which they are minutely 1 



and striate; leaf -buds densely rufous-lanose. L 



ptic- ovate, very shortly 



d suddenly acuminate, the base broadly rounded and often emarginate ; upper surf 



glabrous, shining; lower covered with loose deciduous rusty tomentum, finally glabi 

 and sub-glaucous ; main nerves 20 to 22 pairs, sub-horizontal, rather prominent beneath, 

 curving upwards and interarching at the much more slender tips ; length 9 to 12 in., 

 breadth 4 to 4'5 in., petiole '6 in. Male panicles axillary, with few short, condensed, 

 many-flowered, spreading branches, the branches as well as the flowers densely silky 

 rufous-tomentose, 2 to 2*5 in. long and 1-25 in. broad; buds ovoid, '15 in. long; the 

 pedicels much shorter; perianth leathery, with 2 or sometimes 3 teeth, tomentose outside, 

 glabrescent inside; andreecium sessile, broadly ovoid, its apex obtuse; anthers about 

 18 narrow, elongate, firmly united to the column and to each other, their apices alone 

 ree. Female flower and fruit unknown. 



Singapore : Wallich, Ridley. - 



This species, for many years known only by Wallich's fragmentary flowerless speci- 

 mens, has been recently collected by Mr. H. M. Ridley, Director of the Botanical 

 Garden, Singapore. Mr. Ridley's, which agree exactly with Wallich's specimens (as far 

 as the latter go), are males; females being still unknown. The andreecium 

 approaches that of Eumyristica, inasmuch as the anthers are much elongate and connate 

 with each other and with the column. The panicles, however, are quite those of 

 Fyrrhosa. This species and M. fulva thus form, as regards andreecium, a connecting 



link between these two sections. 



Plate 125. Myristica ferruginea, Wall. 1, Branch with male panicle (the lower 

 surface of the leaf exposed); 2, leaf, upper surface— of natural size; 3 & 4, male 

 flowers; 5, perianth segment seen from inside; 6, andreecium— enlarged. 





21. Myristica supekba, Hook. fil. Sr Thorns. Fl. Ind. 162. A tree 40 to 50 feet high 



young branches stout, covered (as are the under surfaces of the leaves and the panicles) 



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