OF BKITISH INDIA. 



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ive more numerous, more prominent, spreading nerves, which leave the midrib 

 at a less acute angle. An unnamed species from New Guinea (Forbes Kos. 329 & 37o) 

 also approaches this very closely. 



Plate 137. Myristica Forbesii, King. 1, Branch with male panicles; 2, panicle of 

 female flowers; 3, raceme of young fruit; 4, raceme of ripe fruit; 5, section of fruit ; 



6, arillus covering seed— of natural size ; 7 & 8, male flowers dissected and show 



• 



the androecium ; 9, female flower ; 10, ovary — en larged 



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34. Myristica Canarica, Bedd. MSS. A tree; young branches cin« reous, rather rouj 

 and sparsely lenticellate, the youngest minutely rufous-pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceoi 

 almost membranous, elliptic to oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, base rounded, 

 sometimes slightly cordate or cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining, the 

 lower glaucous; main nerves 11 to 13 pairs, spreading, inconspicuous on the upper; 

 thin but rather prominent on the lower surface, intcrarehing "within the margin; length 

 6 to 12 in., breadth 1*5 to 4*25 ; petiole '3 to '6 in. Male pmkles axillary, spread- 

 ing, 3*5 to 4 in. long and about as many broad ; minutely and scurfily rufous- 

 pubescent ; perianth clavate or narrowly obovoid, *15 in. long, minutely pubescent 

 on both surfaces, cut for about a fourth of its length iuto 3 or 4, short, sub acute, 

 triangular teeth; pedicels about as long as the flowers. Androecium sessih , ellipsoid, 

 blunt, much shorter than the perianth ; anthers from 8 to 10, slightly unequal, narrow. 

 Female flowers in racemes or imperfect panicles, about -5 in. long; the rachis woody, 

 stout; perianth sessile or sub-sessile, narrowly obovoid in bud, puberulous outside, 

 tomentose insids, cut half-way down into three blunt recurved teeth; nary * lile, 

 ovoid-globose, pubescent; stigma sessile, divided by a mesial groove into two semi-lunar 

 narrow, wavy lobes. Fruit (fide Beddome) globose, 1 to 125 in. in diam., glabrous 

 in age. Beddome Ft. Sylvatica, t. 270 (exel syn. Wall Cat. 6798). M. Farquhariana, 

 A. DC. Prod. xiv. 1, 200 (in part); Hook, fil. 6f Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. 101; JI«»k. 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 108 (both in part). 



Forests of Canara, Coorg, and the Wynaad— Beddome. . '.+ 



Plate 138. Myristica Canarica, Bedd. 1, Branch with male panicle ; 2, twig with 

 female racemes ; 3, ripe fruit-*/ natural size ; 4, male flower ; 5, andneeium ; 6, female 

 flower- 7, ovary; 8, stigmz- enlarged. (No. 3 is copied from Beddomes II. Bghmt., t. 2/0.) 





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IV.— In a (Hook. fil. & Thorns.) Panicles as in Pyrrhm ; \ rianth 



bifid or' 3-toothed, sometimes 4-toothed ; andrcecium gloWe or depressed 

 globose, sessile, sometimes elongated .transversely ; the ^ , or he mo* 



nart attached 'to the column by their bases only (quite connate to it in 



So 3 5 t the' r sides and apices quite free, the apices sometimes much incurved. 



Fruit as in Pijrrhosa. 



S5 Myristica bivalvis, EooTc. fil Fl. Br. Ind. v. 107. A glabrous tree, 30 to 

 3o. Myristica niv , . lenticellate. Leaves thinly cona- 



50 feet high 5 young £fj£^^V^ y acuminate, the base cuneate, 

 ceous, oblong or narrowly dhptacoW g ^ ^ ^ ^ „ 



dark greenish- brown b ve wh - £ y, P ^^ ^ ^ promincnt; , th 



pairs, spreading, rather straigM o __ ^ ^ fa ^ ^ spreadlDg) 



7 to 10 in.; breadtb i w ao *»■•, v 



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