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THE SPECIES OF MYEISTICA 



lower reddish-brown, sub-glabrescent when old, stellate rusty-tonientose . when youno- 



5 9 



12 to 15 pairs, sub-erect, rather straight, slightly prominent on both surfaces; length 



8 to 10 in., breadth 25 to 3*25 m.; p 



about 



6 in., slender 



Male panicles 2*5 to 



4 in. long, many-branched and many-flowered, the branches spreading, laxly rufous- 

 tomentose • buds globose, on pedicels -05 in. long, ebracteolate ; perianth glabrous, thin, divided 



3 or 4 broad triangular acute teeth 



Andrcecium sessile, depressed-globo 



anthers 12 to 1 

 toers unknown : 



ly ovoid 



mu 



rved at either 



half-way into 



obtusely 3 or 4-angIed ; 



end, confluent. Female fl> 



flowered racemes. Ripe fruit in lax racemes of 3 to 5 



flattened, ridded along the suture, sub-glabrous; pericarp fleshy; pedicel about '2 



the young fruits in short, solitary, 8 to 10 



75 to 1 in. long, ovoid, slightly 



long; 

 seed. 



fleshy, entire, not laciniate or areolat 



elop 



th 



whole of the 



m. 



ing 



A. DC. 



Booh fit. FL Br. Ind. v. 105 ; 

 2, p. 68. Myristicacea, Wall Cat. 902 



in 



Prod. xiv. 1, 204 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat 



P 



r> 



Curtis No 



1748 



M 



Maim ay (Kew Distrib.) No 



1284 



Cant ley 



Perak, King's Collector ; common 



Plate 129 



Myristica tomentosa, Hook, fit 



Th 



1 



Branch with male flowers 



2, twig with young 



fruit 



3 & 4, ripe fruit; 5 & 6, arillus and seed 



tural size; 



7, male flower; 8, androeciurn; 9, andrcecium from above — enlarged 



27. Myristica rubiginosa, n. sp. King. 



A tree 20 to 30 feet high ; 



young branches 



stout, at first densely rufous-tomentose, ultimately deeply striate, tomentose on the ridges 

 and glaucous in the furrows. Leaves large, thinly 



coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, very shortly 



and suddenly acuminate, or blunt, the edges slightly recurved when dry, base rounded 

 or very slightly cuneate; upper surface deeply reticulate, rugulose, scabrid from numerous 

 short, stiff, branching, rusty hairs; the midrib and nerves rusty- tomentose; glabrescent 

 when old; lower surface densely and uniformly covered with bright, reddish -brown, 

 stellate tomentum, the reticulations prominent ; main nerves 16 to 19 pairs, spreading 

 and arching within the margin, prominent on the lower, depressed on the upper surface ; 



Male panicles 

 long and 2*5 to 3 in. broad, 



length 10 to 12 in., breadth 4 to 5*5 in. ; 



petiole *1 to 



25 in., tomentose. 



Flo wers 



from the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves, 7 to 9 in. 



branching from the base, many-flowered, the rachis and branches rufous-lanate. 



glabrous, globular, *05 in. in diam., in small crowded racemes at the apices of the 



branchlets; pedicels as long as the flowers, glabrous. Perianth thin, with black dots, the 



teeth 3 or 4, triangular ; androeciurn sessile, turbinate ; anthers about 15, confluent, convex. 

 Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



Singapore; Kingh Collector No. 1233. 

 Plate 130. Myristica rubiginosa, King. 



Branch with male panicles — of natural 



size 



male flower; 3, male flower dissected; 4, andrcecium— enlarged. 



28 



Myristica flocculosa, n. sp. King. A tree 40 to 60 feet high ; branchlets stout 



when young densely clothed with thick, felted, bright rufous tomentum 



wl 



old sub 



striate, rough and cinereous. Leav 



glabrous, 



oblanceolate, subacute or acute, the 

 slightly cuneate 



la 



coriaceous 



> 



edges 



revolute when dry; the ba 



oblong-lanceolate 



le rounded 



or 

 or 



upper surface hispid-puberulous ; the midrib and nerves flocculent 

 tomentose when young, but ultimately glabrous; lower densely covered with pale rufous 



nerves 15 to 20 pairs 



tellate, flocculent tomentum, the edg 



ed when dry 



main 



