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THE SPECIES OF MYEISTICA 



3 to 5 in. long 

 Floioers pedicellate 



and 3 to 3-5 in. broad, much-branched, many- flowered, quite glabrous 



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1 



in. 



broad, 

 pedicel 



And 



inflated, transversely ovate, broader than long, 



a laterally- 



>ar anthers, 



Female 



long as the perianth 



compressed, boldly 2-valved ; 



compressed, sessile, flattened, 2-lobed 



connate from base to apex, each lobe completely inflexed about the middle 



P 



bearing about 30 elongate .1 



ipe fruit unknown. 



e: Murton. Ridley; Malacca, Ridley 



rs and 

 Singapo 



A species readily disting 



shed from any described in this paper by its broad 



compressed, 2-lij)ped perianth, with the anthers connate into two inflexed masses 



A 



ed 



species 



from 



Band 



Bangka ?) 



is 



ultivated 



in 



the 



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Buitenzonr ; but tl 



when you 



thers in it are more numerous and they are inflexed 



Botanic Garden 



onlj 



A specimen collected by De Vr 



Amboina (kindly 



buted to the 



Calcutta Harbar 



by th 



authorities of the Leiden Herbarium) agrees with this in 



leaves and male flowers, except that the latter are rati 



mall 



That specimen bears 



the name M. globular 



Bl 



but I vent 



to think that it is wrongly so named 



(31. g lobular ia being figured by Blum 

 and that it is rei 



m 



Rump hia 1, t. 6, fig. 



with globular flowers) 



is really referable to M. bivalvis 

 Plate 139. Myristica bivalvis, Hook. fil. 



1 



Branch with male p 



tural 



size 



2 & 3, male flowers unopened ; 4, valves of perianth opened up, the andrcecium 



taken out 



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5 



andrcecium 



d 



view ; 



6. half of the andrcecium seen from inside 



7 



> 



vertical section of andrcecium to show the 



incurving 



of the edg 



of its two 



halves— enlarged. 



36. Myristica crassifolia, Hook. fil. 6r Thorns. Fl. Ind. 160. A tree ; young branches 



Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic-oblong, 



rather rough. 



thick, dark-coloured and 

 rather widest in the lower half, obtuse, the base slightly and suddenly cuneate; upper 

 surface dull, greenish when dry ; lower brown, dull, sub-glaucous ; main nerves 1 1 to 

 13 pairs, rather prominent * beneath, half -ascending, little curved, interarching near 



the margin; length 65 to 8*5. in.,. 

 panicles axillary or from axils of fallen 



breadth 3 to 3*5 in. 



j 



petio 



75 in., stout. 



Male 



leave 



3 



y 



branching 



tomentose, 2*5 to 5 in. long and 2 to 2*5 in. in diam. 



from the base, rufous- 

 Flowers numerous, -03 in. in 



diam., sub-globular, slightly compressed, glabrous, in rather dense clusters on the 

 panicles; pedicels as long as the flowers; perianth thin, 2-valved; andrcecium sessile, 

 flattened, elongated transversely; anthers 10, only partially attached to the column and 



to each other, ovate, compressed, opening by vertical elongated sutures. Female flowers 

 and fruit unknown. Hook, fil, Fl. Br, Ind. v. 108 ; A, DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 204. 

 M. Irya, var. crassifolia, Miq. in Herb. M. Horsfieldii, Blume, ? Wall, Cat. 6806 (in part). 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib, No. 4550), Cantley, Singapore; Wallich, Anderson, 



Ridley. 



Distrib. — Borneo, Bangka, Amboina, De 



Vricse, 



Plate 140. Myristica crassifolia, Hook. fil. 6f Thorns. 1, Branch with male panicles 



of natural size 



j 



male flower; 3 & 4, andrcecium — enlarged. 



37. Myristica Irya, Gcertn. Fruct. i. 195, tf. 41. A tree 30 to 40 feet high ; youngest 

 branches rather stout, dark-coloured; the older glabrous, rather pale, often lenticellate, 

 striate, two of the stria? on opposite sides of the branches much elevated. Leaves 

 membranous, glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate ; the base cuneate ; upper surface dull 



to 



reenish-brown when dry ; the lower of a paler brown, not greenish 



9 to 13 pairs 



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