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Plate 128. Myristica amygdalina, Wall. 1, Branch with ripe fruit (copied from 



Wallich PL As. Bar. f. 90); 2, male panicle (from a specimen collect, i in Assam 

 Masters) ; 3, ripe fruit ; 4 & 5, sections of ripe fruit ; G to 9, xcedf and arillus 



natural size; 10, male flower; 11, the same seen from above; 12, ai. Iroecium 

 13, female flower; 14, ovary — enlarged. 



25. Myristica sucosa, ft. sp. King. A tree GO to 100 feet high; young branches 

 rather stout with rather rough bark, the tips of which, as roll as the leaf-buds and 



surfaces of the youngest leaves, are covered with dividuous, scurfy, minute Umicntum. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, much narrowed 

 from the middle or above it to the petiole; both surfaces glabrous, tho low< r pultr; 

 main nerves 9 to 14 pairs, prominent and minutely winged on the lower surface, incon- 

 spicuous on the upper; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 2 to 3 in. ; petiole '5 to »75 in. Mali 

 panicles from the branches below the leaves, 3 to 4*5 in. long including tho peduncle, 



2 to 3 in. wide, branching above, their branchlets scurfy ; pedic li slender, *15 to 2 

 lono*. Flowers numerous, sub-globular, -1 in. in diam. ; perianth pubcrulous externally 



om 



111. ,V,~ & . 



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glabrous within, with several bold vertical lines, inflated, bivalved or with 3 trial 

 teeth; andrcecium sessile, sub-globular, truncate; stamens 10, sub-equal, sub-erect, 

 connate by their sides, the apices free. Female panicles axillary, stout, rigid, spreading, 

 rusty-puberulous, 1'5 in. long and about 125 in. broad. Flowers ovoid-globoso, glabrons 

 perianth fleshy, with 3 short triangular teeth; ovary sessile, ovoid-globose, glabrous; 



sile grooved, prolonged on one side. Fruit solitary or 2 or 3 in a raceme; 



ripe ovoid or pyriform, very succulent, glabrous, 25 to •> in. long ttdl^ t 



wl 



2 in. in diam. ; ped 



gm 



1-75 in. long; pericarp -5 in. thick. P void, about 



l-aTin lon7;'arrnu7fleshyryellow, enveloping the whole of the seed, slightly laciniate 



(Jr " B ;t\td.ri .Si, J- P S «M- (* ~ » ^ - 1 "■*»£ 



rsy me . , MSS. note made on his spc-m.on No. 1 )0 



me) , I am able be to quote ^ a y _ (< ^ ^^ 



(Kew Distnb.) while it was tiesh.n ye llowi 8 h-buff or pinki-h 



broad and obtuse at the ^^' ^ °*J^ kn L rather fleehy, * of 

 above, perfectly shining and g *b ous bp ^ ^ ^^ ^ 



an inch thick pale ^ ^ j^LUous' indent which, for want of a 

 ceous, covered by a thm pale g fuU |)(j u ft 



ww n» mfi . I call endocarp. A email tree w , 



better name, 



very 

 larg 



ant 



;;LZ Z The abundance of pomiform, shining, buff or yeUow 

 , ^."-Malacca, 28th May 1867. 2> mJa pipdde; 



3) female panicle ; ^ « % Z*T-*9* 

 7, andrcecium; 8, temaie no 



26. Myristica «*»■»•*£ £„£. young branches slender, rusty stel 1 ate-tomen • 

 «r o/ 2W-) A tree 15 to 60 ee , , ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ infl( , rescence . 



_ ^ _„ .u„W„ surfaces o tl you ^.^ oblance olate or lanceolate; apex 



Leaves ^^^^.Zl^h^ cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, dull brown when dry 



tose, 



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