OF BRITISH INDIA. 



303 



impressed on the upper, boldly prominent on the under surface, rather straight, but 

 interarching close to the margin ; length 12 to 18 in., breadth 4 to 7 in. ; petiole »5 t > 

 1 in., very stout, tomentose. Male panicles robust, spreading, many-flowered, from the 

 axils of fallen leaves, 6 to 8 in. long and 3 to 4 in. broad ; rachises and ped uncles 

 flocculent rufous-tomentose. Floivers *1 in. long, ovoid-globose, slightly obovoid. inflated, 

 pedicelled, ebracteolate, glabrescent; the perianth thin, its teeth 3 or 4, rather shallow, 

 acute; pedicels 2 to *25 in. long, slender, glabrous. Androecium sub-settile, ob ovate, its 



apex truncate, non-apiculate ; anthers about 10, elongate, confluent. Fmalc 

 unknown. 



Perak: alt. about 600 feet. King's Collector No. 8G18. 



Plate 131. Myristica flocculosa, King. 1, Branch with panicle of male flowers 



of natural size; 2, male flower; 3, androecium — enlarged. 



29. Myristica Wallichii, Hoot fil. 6c Thorns. Fl. Ind. 1G1. A tree 100 feet or 



more in height; young branches stout, rather rough, of a dark-grey colour, the young- 

 est minutely rusty-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, oblong and acute, or rarely elliptic and 

 blunt, the base sub-truncate, emarginate, or sub-cuncate; upper surface shining, greenish- 

 brown, glabrous; lower surface rufous-brown, loosely and deciduously stellate-tomentote 



main nerves 1 6 to 22 pairs in the oblong, but only 10 to 12 in the elliptic forms, rout, 

 rather straight, sub-ascending, forming bold sub-marginal areola- ; length of the elliptic 

 forms 6 to 8 in., breadth about 4 in. ; length of the oblong forms 10 to 14 in., 

 breadth 3 to 4'25 in.; petiole '5 to -75 in., stout, channelled. Male panicles 4 to 12 in. 

 long, stout, spreading, rufous-tomentose, axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves, 

 many.flowered ; flowers glabrous, globose, -1 in. long, ebracteolate, on very short 



tomentose pedicels, in compact globose clusters of 8 to 10 ; perianth fleshy, glabrou 

 sometimes granular, teeth 3 or 4, triangular, acute ; androecium sessile, obovate-globose, 

 the apex depressed, deeply 3-cleft; anthers about 15, incurved, confluent. Female panicle* 

 stouter and much shorter than the male and fewer-flowered, the flowers larger; perianth 



tomentose externally at the base, otherwise glabrescent, teeth 3, spreading 



coriaceous, 



ovary globose, sessile, glabrous ; stigma sessile, .0..11. hncar Drmt (qmte young ovoul 



Loth on a short stout pedicel, the slightly enlarged penanth percent •* * base 



io A _ DQ prod xiv< 1( 203; v , y . n Jnd , Bat u pt 2 



Hook 

 67 



p . 67. M. erassifolia, Book. fil. * Tkom. Fl. Ind. 160; Mancl I. c 68. M. Horrfeld_ 



Wall, (not <•/ Blum) Cat. No, ,6806 



Singapore ; Wallich, Lobb, Maingay No. 1283 {Aew f'» l -h J 



bingapore, > , Scorteehini No. 246, Kmy's Clkcior No 4827. 



as 



natural 



2, male flower 



3 male flower" dissected ; 4, andro3cium-e*/«r^ 



> male flower, «, h with female flowew; 



■ PLiTE 133. Myristica JfJ^^JL J; S, female flower ; 6, female 



2, panicle of young fmt; 8 **;>° « 



flower 



from above ; 7, ovary-^W 



