OF B1IITISH ISDIA. 



299 



with loose, scurfy, bright, rufous, minute, stellate tomentum; the branches ultimately 

 glabrous, striate, lenticellate, cinereous. Leaves large, coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic- 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate; the base cuneatc, slightly unequal; 

 upper surface, when young, covered with dense, minute, rusty tomentum, which is per- 

 manent only along the midrib, the rest of the upper surface ultimately glabrous; main 

 nerves 15 to 30 pairs, impressed on the upper, very prominent (almost winged in old 

 leaves) on the lower surface, (when dry), spreading, sub-ascending, rather straight, but 

 curving and interarching within the edge; length 10 to 25 in., breadth 4 to 8 in., 

 petiole *5 to 1 in., tomentose. Male panicles robust, from the axils of fallen leaves, 

 4 to 6 in. long; perianth -25 in. long, leathery, ellipsoid or slightly obovoid, obtuse, 

 with 3 or 4 triangular teeth; pedicel about as long or shorter, glabrous; andrmekm 

 shorter than the perianth, not apiculate, ovoid, obtuse; anthers nearly 20, quite connate 

 to the column and to each other. Female flowers on stout woody racemes, 1 in. or moro 

 long; the rachis woody, pale, rufous-tomentose ; perianth coriaceous, glabrous, widely 

 tubular with 2 or 3 acute, shallow teeth ; ovary ovoid, slightly oblique, glabrous, grooved at ono 

 or sometimes on both sides; stigma flat. Fruit ovoid-globose, rou h, wartcd, ^ibresccnt, 

 2-5 to 3 in. long and nearly 2 in. in diam.; peduncle stout, woody, • 5 in. long; pericarp 

 succulent, -5 to -75 in. thick. A. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 194; Miq. FL hid. Bat. i. pt. 



2, 62; Hook. fit. FL Br. Ind. v. 105. 



Penang; Phillips. Perak ; near Gunong Batu Puteh, at an elevation of from 1,600 



to 2,000 feet, King's Collector No. 8024, Scortcchini. ^ 



This resembles M. rubigmosa and 31. flocculosa in its leaves, but is at once dostm- 

 guishable from both by the much larger size of its male flowers and by its ovoid, obtuse 



androecium. T , rt , . 1 



p L1TE 125 bis. Hyristica superba, Book, fil- * Thorns. 1, Leaf; 2 male P an.elo; 



3, ripe fruit; 4, section of ripe fruit showing pericarp and seed-./ natural *»; 5 & 6, 



male flower. ; 7 andro*i«m -£*£■ , 5ranch with , cIc3 of male 



Plate 124 bis. Mynstica superba, Jtooic. jii. ». ' .„'.,„ . . 



raceme of female flowers-o/ natural size ; 3, penanth of icmale flower ; 4 

 & 5, ovaries— slightly enlarged. 



t» o„ jrina A tree 40 to 00 feet high; all parts glabrous 

 22. Myristica Prainii, n. sp. King. A tree w o f 



flowers ; 2 



the inflorescence ; young branches rather stout, smooth, dark brow,, _ L 



) 



ptic-oblong° to broadly-elliptic, acute (usually rather abruptly so) 



or emar-inate ; both surfaces rather dull when dry, th 





d 



thinly coriaceou 



the base rounded, sub-ur.rn.~~ . - ------ ■ b inent) horizontal at the base- 



lower paler ; mam nerves lo to 18 pair* tu ' io , e ., to .„ .„. 



spreading towards the apex ; length 6 to ^™£ leaves , £ much branched 



Li. Male panicles from the branches I ow th y , , ^ g ^ _ 



wider than long, sub-glabrous below m ^tZl^ °< *«* 6 > » cdicellate : 

 6 to 7 in. wide. Jto« "Oo m. m d.am.^ ^ ^^ ^.^ ^^ 



pedicels longer than the penantu J ressed . globulaI , minu tely apiculate 



androecium much shorter than tne pe , fluent . Fema u flowers unknown, 



shortly stalked; anthers 8, short ova , » < „ ^ iong . peduncle .5 h, 



Fruit r; d ' pS s 1°: t£ — ; *. ^ **» **., —0 



Ann. Koy. Bot. Gabd. Calcutta Vol. III. 





