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glabrous; anthers 9 to 12 with filaments attached to edge of disc, short, ovate, horizontal. 



dehiscing downwards ; stalk very short, cylindric. Female flower unknown ; ovarg (after 

 fertilization) sessile, ovoid, narrowed above, rugulose; style very short, glabrous, stigma 

 with 3 short conical spreading lobes. Fruit usually solitary, sometimes in clusters of 

 2 or 3, axillary, pedunculate, -75 to 1 in. long by '5 to 75 in. in diam., broadly ovoid, 

 slightly apiculate; the stigma persistent, slightly narrowed at the base, minutely rugulose 

 and rufous-pubescent; pericarp thickly coriaceous; arillus thin, enveloping the fruit, 

 slightly 5 or 6 lobed at the very apex. 



Perak: at elevations of from 500 to 2,000 feet; common. 



Plate 149. Myristica Kunstleri, King. 1, Branch with ripe fruit; 2, twig with 

 male flowers; 3, arillus and seed — of natural size; 4, male flower; 5, staminul disc and 



thers — enlarged, 



46. Myristica conferta, n. sp. King. A tree 60 to 80 feet high; young branches 

 rather stout, pale brown, striate, glabrous; the youngest densely covered with short, 



stellate, rusty tomentum. Leaves oblong or narrowly elliptic, acute ; the base rounded 



t 



or slightly cordate; both surfaces minutely reticulate; the upper glabrous, shining 

 the lower, when young, and especially the nerves, with minute loose scurfy tomen- 

 tum, ultimately glabrescent and sub-glaucous; main nerves conspicuous below, 

 about 15 to 20 pairs, spreading; length 5 to 7*5 in., breadth 175 to 2*25 in. 

 Male flowers in densely crowded axillary clusters of 20 to 30 ; pedicels *3 to *4 in. Ion::, 

 tawny-pubescent, the bracteole about the middle. Perianth sub-globose, depressed, 

 bluntly 3-angled ; the teeth broadly triangular, acute, fleshy, concave, stellatc-tomen- 

 tose externally, glabrous within; staminal disc very concave at first; the anthers 15, with 

 short filaments, at first erect and slightly recurved at the apex, afterwards radiating and 

 sub-horizontal, and the disc flat ; stalk cylindrical below, rapidly widening upwards into 

 the disc, striate, minutely hairy, especially at the base. Female flowers larger than the 

 males, but in smaller clusters, slightly obovoid ; perianth with 3 short sub-acute teeth ; 

 ovary depressed-globose, rufous-tomentose ; stigma sessile with 3 spreading acute lobe 

 Fruit axillary, solitary, ovoid, blunt, 1*5 in. long and about H in. in diam., shortly 

 rufous-pubescent when young, glabrescent when ripe; pericarp rather dry, about -2 in. 

 thick, splitting vertically when ripe; seed ellipsoid, pointed ; arillus covering the whole 



seed, minutely laciniate at the apex. 



Perak: at low elevations; King's Collector Nos. 6211, 10295; Wrag No. 2377. 

 Malacca; Griffith No. 4345; Maingag Nos. 1294 & 1297. Singapore, Bidky No. 44 . 



Allied to M. lamina, Blume ; but distinguished from that species by its more 

 numerous stamens, 3-cleft sessile stigma, and larger glabrescent fruit. 



Plate 150. Myristica conferta, King. 1, Branch with male flowers; 2, twig with 

 female flowers; 3, twig with ripe fruit; 4, seed covered by its arillus; 5, apex of 

 arillus-./ natural size; 6, male flower; 7, andrcecium; 8, female flower; 9, ovary and 



stigma — enlarged. 



47. 



... Mymstica Wkayi, « tp: King. A tree 20 to 60 feet h.gh; young branches 

 slender rather Dale ; all parts glabrous except the inflorescence. Leave, thmly com. 



narrowly elliptic ■ or elliptic-oblong, acute or sub-acute, rarely sub-acummate ; 

 '' / i oLpflmes emarginate or sub-cuneate, never cordate; upper surface 



the base rounded, sometimes emar maw , gnreadine- 



shining the lower dull, whitish grey; the nndnb and 13 to 17 pairs ot spreading 



ceous 

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