OF BRITISH IXDIA 



513 



leaves elliptic-oblong, acute or acuminate, narrowed in the lower third to the acute base, 

 the edges slightly recurved ; upper surface pale, dull, olivaceous brown when dry, glabrous ; 

 the lower reddish-brown, glabrous, except the deciduously pubescent midrib; main 

 nerves 13 to 17 pairs, prominent on both surfaces, but especially on the lower, sprc ling 

 and forming double intermarginal arches ; length 6 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 3 in. ; 

 petiole -35 to -5 in., stout. Male panicles axillary, lax, spreading, 2n» to 3-5 in. long 

 and about 1*5 in. broad; the axis and branches slightly scurfy-pubescent (never tomentose), 

 the pedicels and flowers quite glabrous; buds depressed-globose or sometimes obovoid, I< s 

 than *05 in. in diam., the pedicels longer; perianth leathery, pale, (juito glabrous on 

 both surfaces, with 3 acute triangular teeth; andr&cium transversely ovoid, compret"-< , d or 

 3-angled, the disc small, concave; anthers about 10, erect, rather short, narrow, attached 

 by their bases only, their sides and apices quite free, the connectives sometimes produced 

 into a short appendage at the apex. Female panicles about 1 in. lung, sub-glabrous, slightly 

 scurfy when very young; pedicels rather thick, recurved; flowers sub-globular, '05 in. 

 in diam.; the perianth flesliy, glabrous; shortly 3-toothed; ovary depressed-globular, 



glabrous; stigma small, oblique. Fruit solitary or in racemes of 2 or 3, broadly ov< ml, 

 glabrous; 1*25 to 1*5 in. long and 1 to '25 in. broad ; pericarp leathery, '25 in. thick, 

 splitting when ripe into 3 or 4 valves; arillus rather thick, entire, covering the whole <>f the 

 smooth globose seed. M. glabra, Blume, vak. Sumatrana, Miq. Ann. Mas. Lngd. B*L ii. V.K 



Malacca; Maingag (Ken Distrib.) No. 1286, Cantleg. 1\ rak; King'* Collector \os. 3090, 



3899, 6672, 6737. 



This is closely allied to M. polgsphcrula, Hook. fil., from which, howe\ r, it diffei 

 in its nearly glabrous panicles and very much larger fruit. 1 have dedicated tins 

 species to "that distinguished soldier and botanist Brigadier-General II. Collett, c.n., 

 who has recently done so much to increase our knowledge of the Flora of UpfX r 

 Burrnah. 



Plate 147. Myristica Collettiana, Kmg. 1, Branch with panicles of male flowers; 



2 & 3 fruits; 4, seed covered by arillus— of natural me; 5, male flower; 



androecium — enlarged. 



Knema (Blume, Hook, fil, & A. DC.) Male flowers pedicdled, in 



clusters of from 3 to 15. from axillary tubercles, each pedicel with a persistent 

 bracteole about the middle (close to the ^ perianth in .1/. tonteyi aid M 



fo^f the STS^^ -*** h y thcii ; tee * t0 2 .•* 



T!t' w mr.lv with filaments, radiating, more or less horizontal and 



Staminal column usually stalked, peltate, discoid, concave. Hat or 



otherwise 



dehiscing downwards, or sub-erect and extrorse 



44. Myristica 



Mm*** oblongifolia, «. V . K.ng. A shrub, or .mail tree 30 to 40 fee h.gh 

 K grinder at first minutely scurfily rufgus-tomentosc ; afterwards ub- 

 oung to^Tj™?^ Lmm thickly membranous, oblong-lanceolate or obla,, 

 glabrous, the bark paie uiuw shortly acuminate, very gradually 



