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THE SPECIES OF Mi'PJSTICA 



Female 

 blunt 



75 



i 



gaping ; 



flowers glol 

 ovary sessile, globose, glabrous 



long; 



coriaceous, glab 



8 



ooved ; stigma 



the teeth short 



small 



slightly oblique 

 grooved. Fruit solitary or in short racemes of 2 to 4, ellipsoid ; length (when youn 



cr 



•5 in. 



> 



pedicel '2 



stout 



i 



pericarp leathery, glab 



thick 



arillus thin, quite entire, and 



pletely enveloping the smooth oval seed 



re 



at elevat 



from 600 to 800 feet, King's Collector No. 10917 ; Scortechini 



No. 862. S. Uj 



Cantley No. 1798 



Allied to M. polysplenia, Hook, fil., but with smaller, quite glab 



> 



with fewer 



7 



fainter nerves, a different ovary, and ellipsoid fruit 



with fe 



Plate 145. Myristica Ridley 



vers ; 3 & 4, yo 

 o vary — enlarged. 



no 



King 

 fruit 



1 



Branch 



wi 



mal 



flowers : 2, branch 



> 



5. arill 



covering 



seed 



natural size 



6. androecium: 7 



I 



M 



POLYSPHERULA, Hook, fil. FL B 



Ind, 



v. 



108 



A tree 40 to 50 feet 



high 



y 



~ 



shoots 



slender, at first 



ed with 



scurf, ultimately glabrou 



Leaves narrowly oblong, 



and striate. 



slightly revolute when dry 



or oblong-lanceolate, acute 



or acuminate, the edg( 

 the base cuneate, rarely rounded ; upper surface pale greenish 



brown when dry, glabrous, shii 

 which in young leaves is scu 

 and bold on both surfaces, spreadin 



lower dark brown, dull, glabrous, except the midrib 



fy-puberulous 



mam 



the ends 



nerves 11 to 13 pairs, thin but sharp 



•1 in. from the edge; 



terarching 



length 3*5 to 6 in., 



breadth 1*5 to 22 



in. 



peti 



3 



lengui o'O xo o in., ureau ui i <j \ju * m u*. , y^^w ~~ *~ ~ — 



the axils of leaves and of fallen leaves, much-branched, spread 



to *5 in. Male panicles from 



densely 



sty 



tomentose, 



of the branchlets, *05 



2 to 4 in. long and 1 



to 3 in. 



broad 



fi 



clustered towards the end 



m 



diam., depressed -globose, glabr 



perianth black whe 



dry 



cry, with 3 or 4 triangular acute teeth, sometimes 



2-valved; pedicels about 



as long 



as the flower: androe 



sessile, 



ly elon 



o 



or 



slightly 



3 or 4 



rnered 



d 



o 



to the number of 



perianth segments; anth 



9 to 12, ovate 



y 



the cells divergent, and the sides and apices free 



Female panicles only about 1 



in. 



long, 



stout, few-flowered; perianth 



d 



blunt 



very 



thick 



acute, concave teeth ; ovary sessile, compressed, ovoid, glabr 

 bi-lobed. Fruit in short racemes of 2 or 3, pedunculate, < 



glabrous, with 3 sub- 

 ; stigma grooved, sub- 



id, narrowly ridged on 



one side, srlabro 



<> 



about *75 in. Ions? 



d 



•5 in. in 



diam 



2 



to '5 in. 



long; 



pericarp leathery, splitting into 2 valves when ripe ; 



ompletely covering the broadly ovoid 



oth, shining seed 



ped 

 illus rather fleshy, entire 



M. 



globularia, Hook, fil 



Thorns, (not 



Blame) FL Ind. 160 



7 



A 



DC. in Prod. xiv. 1 



> 



202 



part) 



M 



liorsfieldia, Bl ? Wall. Cat. in part (not of Blume) 



Malacca; Griffith (Keio Distrib.) N 



4351 



Cantley 



a; 



apor 





Ridley. Perak 



King 



8 a 



The 



.1% 



/ 



j 



Scortechini. Wray, at low elevations; common 



of this when dry are br 



d have an ol 



tint on the upper 



surface, the lower be 



of 



bronze-like brown. It much resembles the only authen 



specimen which I have seen ( c? only) of 31. subglobosa, Miq 



Plate 146. Myristica polyspherula, Hook, fil 



1, Branch with male flowers 



fruit ; 3, section of ripe fruit ; 4, arillus covering the 

 flower ; 6, andrcecium ; 7, female flower ; 8, 



s 



eed 



natnr 



size 



2, ripe 

 5, male 



ovary — en la rged, 



43. Myristica Collettiana, n. sp. King. A tree 30 to 70 feet high ; young branches 

 brown, faintly lenticellate, striate, glabrous when old, scurfy rusty-pubescent when young. 



