OF BIUTISH I.YDIA. 



305 



shortly acuminate; the edges slightly recurved when dry 

 surface glabrous and shining, the nerves indistinct ; lower of 



dry gl 



the base cuneate ; upper 

 pale purplish-brown, when 



the nerves thin but distinct; main nerves 7 to lu pairs, ascendin 



ching at some distance from the 



C 



- 



4-5 to 6 



breadth 1*1 to 1*6 in.. 



petiole *5 to *6 in. Male panicles from the branches below the leaves, lax, narrow ai 1 

 rather few-flowered, the lateral branches short, the racliis and branches 



pubescent at 



first but ultimately glabrescent, length 2 5 

 rufous-pubescent, about 



externally 



glabrous 



as long as the 



n. Male flowers globular, *05 in. long; ped 

 flowers ; perianth coriaceous, rufous-puberu 



nally, 2 or 3-toothed ; and/ 



globular), not narrowed upward 

 easily separable, their margins a 



about 12. attached 



d-globular (or 

 their backs o 



almost 



and 



d 



apices 



free 



Female fli 



s 



hort 



axillary racemes 



imperfect pa 



shorter than the leaf-petioles, few-flowered, softly rufoi 



externally, as are the pedicels and rachis; per 



t 



globose, shortly 3-toothed; ovary globose, 



fh small, about •( > in. in diam 



pubescent ; stigma 



sessile, small, bifid 



Griffith MSS. quoted 



F. B. Ind. v. 109) "racemed 



th 



Fruit 



size of a cherrv 



pedicel ' 

 the seed 



pericarp thick, with a deep longitudinal f 



i 



aril white, as long 



as 



n 



Malacca ; Griffith [Kew Distrib.) No. 4356 



Pen 



Curtis K 



2406. 2458 



An 



perfectly k 



pecies 



near 31. Farquhariana, Wall., and M. Forth , King; 



but distinguished at once 



from both by its much 



sm 



globular, 



male fl 



Plate 135. Myristica Griffithii, Hook, fit 

 yf natural size ; 2, male perianth ; 3, andrcecii 



1, Branch with panicles of male flowers 



larged. 



32 



Myristica Farquhariana 



W< 



Cat. 679 



A tree GO to 80 feet high; youn<* 



- 



branches slender; at first rusty-puberulous, afterwards paler, often slightly lenticellate 



L 



glabrous 



eolate or oblong-lanceolate, rarely slightly oblanceolate, 



acuminate ; the edge recurved when dry, the base cuneate ; upper surface shining, bro* 



when dry 



the lower pale, purplish-brown, glau 



distinct 



not 



in. 



i 



lly very ii 



breadth -8 to 1-75 in.; 



main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, 

 terarching or only very slightly; length 3 to 6 

 petiole *25 to "5 in. Male panicles axillary, but mostly 



from the i 

 puberulous 



f fallen 



pread 



1 to 1'5 in 



long and 



1 in. broad 



Flowers ovoid, inflated 



1 



loner, in clusters of 6 to 10 



d 



sty 

 pedicels 



slightly longer 

 triangular-acute 



hair 



andr 



than themselves ; 

 outside puberulous; 



in. sessile 



perianth thinly coriaceous, 3 to 4-toothed, the teeth 



ide with numerous 



cal lines of mi 



ylind 



not 



piculate 



rather truncate, hardly more 



than half as long as the perianth 



anthers 7 to 9, narrow, elong 



not twisted 



joined by their 



partially < 

 sub- divergent 



the perianth like tl 

 tose; stigma 



to -75 in. 



the other, rufous-pubescent, becomm 



nectives 



Female panicles shorter tlu 



male but with sharp 

 transversely 2-lobed 



their apices and edges quite free, the cells 

 n the male, few- flowered, flowers reflexed, 

 t teeth; ovary sessile, ovoid-globose, tomen- 



in woody racemes of 



Fruit 



2 



5. ovoid. *6 



long, slightly pointed at each end, faintly grooved on 



side and 



dged on 



glabrous with 



pericarp c 

 from base 



Hook 



arillus thin 



extending to the apex of the seed 



peduncle '35 to '5 in., stout 



ly laciniate 



to apex ; seed ellipsoid, mottled, smooth 



Hook, fit 



Thorns. Fl. Ind. 161 



FL 



Br 



pt. 2, p 



63 {all 



Ind. v. 108 

 part) 



A DC. Frod. xiv. 1, 200; Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 







