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THE SPECIES OF MYEISTICA 



30. Myristica canarioides, n. sp. King. 



A tree 30 to 50 feet hierh; 



& 



all parts quite 



o-labrous, except the panicles; youngest branches dark- coloured, slender; the older cinereous, 

 striate; Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, sub-acute, the edge slightly revolute, 

 the base rounded, slightly oblique ; both surfaces brown when dry, the lower slightly paler 

 than the upper; nerves 12 to 15 pairs, sub-obsolete above, slightly prominent beneath, 



5 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 3 in.; petiole # 3 to # 5 in., stout. Male 



sub-horizontal ; length 



panicles axillary and from the axils of fallen leaves, slender, much-branched, many- 

 flowered, spreading, 2 to 3 in. long by nearly as much wide, the rachises puberulous. 

 Flowers globular, "05 in. in diam. ; pedicels as long as the flower, both glabrous; perianth 

 2 to 3-toothed, glabrous; andrcecium sessile, turbinate, almost annular; anthers about 10, 



w 



ovate, convex, conjoined from base to apex. Female panicles spreading, lax, slender, 6 to 

 9 in. long. Flowers unknown. Fruit oblong-ovoid, blunt at the apex, slightly narrowed at 

 the base, 25 to 3 in. long, 1*25 in. in diam., glabrous; the pericarp leathery, "25 in. 

 thick ; arillus thin, fleshy, extending to the apex of the seed, slightly laciniate, occasionally 

 with wide areolae at the sides ; seeds 2 in. 

 the base rounded, smooth, with bold longitudinal coloured markings. 



Malacca; Maingay No. 1298 (Kew Distrib.) Perak, in Ulu Bubong, at elevations of 

 400 to 600 feet— King's Collector Nos. 10064, 10194, 10816 & 10845. 



This is the plant alluded to by Sir J. D. Hooker in Fl. Br, Ind. v. 113 



long, 



cylindric-elliptic, the apex sub-apiculate, 



probably 



new sp 



but which he was unable to describe owing to the incompleteness of th 



specimens before him (Maingay 



No 



1298) 



The much fuller material lately sent 



from Perak by the Calcutta garden collector removes now all doubt as to the novelty of 

 the species. This plant has the double peculiarity of being monoecious and of having its 



m 



panicl 



- 



d 



M 



jav 



)s much 

 (Rumphii 



sm 



th 



the female. It is true that Blume fig 



h 



specie 



s 



t, 62) as monoecious; but in h 



text 



191) he describes it as 



while in the explanation of his figure he makes no mention of the fact that his 



tist has shown both kinds of p 



the same branch 



It 



probable therefore 



M. jav 



Bl., is not monoecious. I have 



ed this M. canarioides from the lik 



the 

 lean 



long racemes of fruit to those of a Canariam. The leaves are also not unlik 



of 

 the 



of 



a species of that genus. Closely resembling tl 



the extraordinary lengtl 



of the racemes of fruit are two species— one from Tavoy, Wall. Oat. No 



6804A 



and 



the other collected 



Pla 



Penang by Mr. Curtis (Herb. Curt. No. 934) 



134 



Myristica 



des, King. 1, Branch with male pan 



2, panicle 



of young fruit ("from another tree) ; 3, ripe fruit ; 4, the same cut open to show seed 



5, arillus covering 



d: 6 



eed 



ripe 

 rf natural , 



7, male flo 



8. andrcecium 



largecl 



• 



' 



Sect. III. — Gymnacranthera 



Da) 



Panicles as in Pyrrh 



but short 



the 



perianth ebracteolate, 3-toothed ; andrcecium shortly cyiind 

 and truncate ; staminal column sessile, short 

 by their connectives only, their 

 2-lobed : fruit and leaves small. 



*ic or sub-quadrangular 

 thers connate to the column 



margins 



and apices quite 



? 



stig 



le 



i 



31 



M 



all parts glabro 



Grtffithii, HooJc. fil Fl. Br. Ind, 



109 



A tree 25 to 30 feet hurh 



pt the minutely pubescent panicles and flowers ; young branches 



slender, brown, the tips dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong lanceolat 



t 



acute or 



