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THE SPECIES OF 3IYEISTICA 



Plate 126. Myristica Prainii, King. 

 section of ripe fruit ; 



Branch with male panicles 



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arillus 



covering 



seed 



natural size 



, ripe fruit 

 male flower 



6, andrcecium 



enlarged. 





23. 



Mvristica Kingii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 106. 



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tree 30 feet high ; y ounc- 



es 



branches very stout, rough, scurfy-puberulous at the very tips. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 obovate or oblanceolate, slightly oblique, shortly and sometimes bluntly acuminate, much 

 narrowed to base ; upper surface dull, dark brown when dry, the lower pale brown 



both glabrous, 



except the scurfy-pubescent midrib when young; nerves 14 to 18 pairs 



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slender, spreading; length 6 to 10 in., breadth 25 to 4 5 in.; petiole *75 to T25 in. 



their branches short, 



long, 



Male panicles from the axils of fallen leaves, about 3 in. 



spreading, scurfy-tomentose. Flowers on very short pedicels, not crowded, -13 in. in 



diam., globose, scurfy-tomentose ; perianth thick, the teeth triangular, acute, glabrous 



inside; andrcecium sessile, depressed-globose, 



the 



apex 



concave 



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obscurely 3-cleft ; 

 to 1*35 in. long, 



anthers about 30, completely united, convex. Female panicles only 1 



stout, rigid, the flowers obovoid, *15 to *2 in. long; perianth very thick, often only bifid, 



not 3-toothed ; ovary 

 end 



-essile, obovate; the stigma small. 



Fruit ovoid, tapering to each 



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1*5 to 1'75 in. long and 



1 in. in diam. ; pericarp thin, leathery, 



minutely rugose, 



glabrous ; peduncle stout, *35 in. long ; 



arillus thin, fleshy 



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entire, completely enveloping 



the narrowly ovoid, pointed, smooth seed. 



Sikkim Himalaya : alt. 1,000 to 2,000 feet, King, Gammie. Assam ; Mikir Hills, 



Simons; Sibsagar, Jenkins; Satsua, Masters; Cachar, G. Mann. 



Plate 127. Myristica Kingii, Hook. fil. 



Branch with male panicles ; 



panicle ; 3, ripe fruit ; 

 enveloping seed 

 andrcecium ; 



vertical section of same 



through 



the albumen 



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female 

 arillus 



natural size 



male flower 



) 



the same seen from above 



female flower ; 10, ovary — enlarged. 



24. Myristica amygdalina, Wall. Fl. As. Ear, i. 79, t. 90. A tall glabrous tree ; 

 young branches rather stout, the bark cinereous, rough ; the tips dark, smooth. Leaves 

 membranous, oblanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, acute, the base much narrowed; when 

 dry both surfaces rather dull, the lower pale brown ; nerves 8 to 10 pairs, faint, 

 spreading; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 1*25 to 2 in., petiole *4 to *75 in. Male panicles 

 3 to 4 in. long and 2 to 3 in. broad, spreading, many-flowered, axillary, puberulous or 

 glabrous. Flowers under *1 in. in diam., globular, glabrous ; perianth thin, usually with 

 3 broadly triangular teeth, but sometimes only bifid; pedicels as long as the perianth. 



Andrcecium sessile, depressed-globose ; anthers about 



15, 



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linear, convex, confluent. 



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Female flowers in short, few-flowered racemes on the older branches, globular, glabrous, 

 •15 in. in diam. bifid or trifid, the pedicel about as long as the perianth ; ovary sessile, 

 broadly ovoid, apiculate, hooked, glabrous. Fruit 1*5 in. long, narrowly ovoid, pointed, 

 glabrous, grooved on one side, the pericarp fleshy; arillus thin, fleshy, laciniate from the 

 apex, the lobes narrow, often imbricate. Seed oblong-cylindric, *8 in. long ; reticulate 



smooth. Wall. Cat. 6797; Hook. fil. fy Thorns. Fl. Ind. 160 (excl. syn. M, exaltata, Wall.) 



Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 67. 



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A. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 203 {excl. var. Hooker i) ; 

 M. floribunda, Wall. Cat. 6805. 



Silhet, Wallich. Cachar, G. Mann. 



Assam, Masters. 



Khasia, Hooker. B urmah 



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Wallich, Heifer, No. 4358, Brandts, Falconer. 



This species cannot be very much different from M. glabra, Bl. 



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