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THE SPECIES OP MYRISTICA 



nerves prominent; 



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length 6 to 9 in., breadth 2*25 to 3 in.; petiole *5 to 65 in. 

 Male flowers in compound many-flowered umbels from short, woody, axillary tubercles; 

 buds sub-globose, *15 in. in diam., minutely pubescent or sub-glabrous externally, as are 



the bracteole above the middle; lobes of perianth 



the pedicels; pedicels *35 in. 



long, 



broadly ovate, 



sub-acute, glabrous and 



ridged 



inside; staminal disc sub-triangular, 



sub-convex; anthers 13 to 17, on short filaments, horizontal; stalk very short, stout. 

 Female flowers unknown. Fruit oblong-ovoid or ovoid, 1 to 1*75 in. long when ripe, in 



pairs, axillary, pedicellate, cinereous, glabrescent ; pedicel '25 in. 

 thin, tough, completely 



long; 



arillus entire, 



enveloping the oblong-ovoid or ovoid seed. 



Perak : at elevations up to 500 feet — Wray, King's Collector. 



This has leaves rather iike M. Spanogheana, Miq., but narrower, with fewer nerves 



and paler on the under surface. 



Plate 151. Myristica Wrayi, King. 



Branch with male flowers; 



section of ripe fruit; 



seed covered by its arillus — of natural size 



, ripe fruit ; 

 male flower; 



staminal column and disc with anthers— '-enlarged. 







48. Myristica attenuata 



inflorescence covered with 



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Wall. 



golden 



Oat 6791. A tall tree; youngest branches and 

 or tawny, f urf uraceous, deciduous tomentum ; 



ultimately glabrous and striate ; slender. Leaves thinly coriaceous, floceulent-pubescent only 

 when young, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, rarely elliptic, acute or acuminate ; 



the base cuneate, sometimes rounded, often unequal ; upper surface shining, glabrous ; 



the lower pale, glaucous; lateral nerves 12 to 18 pairs, prominent, spreading; length 



.5 to 8 in., breadth 1*75 to 275 in.; petiole *5 in. or under. Male flowers *3 in. in 



diam., obovate-globose, in 3 to 6 -flowered, shortly peduncled, axillary umbels ; pedicels 



2 to *4 in. 



long, 



slender, bracteolate above the middle; perianth deeply divided into 

 fleshy, concave segments, rufous-lanose externally, glabrous and striate 

 within; staminal disc sub-concave, glabrous; anthers about 13, on short filaments, ovate, 



3 



triangular, 



opening downwards; stalk of the disc cylindric 



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about 



as long 



as the perianth tube. 



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Female flowers in umbels like the males, but fewer- flowered, sub-sessile or sessile, the 



MB 



bract close to the base of the perianth; perianth cylindric or narrowly 



ovoid, slightly 



gibbous at the base, 3-toothed, otherwise as in the male ; ovary sessile, ovoid, densely 

 tomentose; the style short, fleshy, glabrous, expanding above into the bi-lobed fleshy 

 stigma, the lobes somewhat corrugated internally. Fruit 1 to 1*5 in. long, ellipsoid 

 or sub-obovoid, abruptly and shortly pointed, densely rusty furfuraceous-tomentose, but 

 ultimately sub-glabrous; arillus thin, uniform, 



ovoid seed. Hook. fil. 



fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 110; Dais. 



entire, completely enveloping the narrowly 



Thorns. Flora Ind., 157; A. DO. in Prod. xiv. 1, 205; Hook. 



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Gibs. Fl. Bombay, 4. M. corticosa, Bedd. Fl. Sylv., 



t. 271 {not 



Lour. , nor of H. 



Th.) 



M. amygdalina, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Plants, 



175 (not of Wall.) 



Moist forests of the Western Ghats; from South Canara to South Travancore, at 



elevations of from 1,000 to 3,000 feet. 



Myristica attenuata, 



Plate 



152. 



Wall. 



1 & 



young 

 , ripe 

 ( Nos. 



twigs with female flower and 

 fruits; 3 to 5, female flowers; 6, ovary, style, and stigma; 7, young fruit; 



male flowers; 10, male flower; 11, staminal disc. 



natural size. Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7 



fruit 



; 9, piece of twig with 



6, 10 



y 



11 



are enlarged; the others are 



10 6f 11 are copied from Bedd. Fl. Sylv., t 271.) 



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