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49. 



Myristica Scortechinii 



n. sp. King, A tree 40 to 60 feet high; 



—"*«"> «• *p- mug. a tree *u to ou ieet high; young 



branches rather stout, covered at first with minute scurfy tomentum, afterwards rather 



pale 



brown and glabrous. Leaves coriaceous 



narrowly oblong-lanceolate, alternate 



towards the acute apex, the base rounded and emarginate or minutely cordate, or sub- 

 cuneate; upper surface shining, glabrous; lower, when young, densely covered with 



very minute, stellate or tawny deciduous tomentum; when adult sub-glabrous and 

 rather pale; main nerves from 18 to 28 pairs, spreading, prominent below; length 

 7 to 12 in., breadth 1-75 to 2-5 in.; petiole -3 to -5 in., rusty-tomentoso when young. 

 Male- flowers in 4 to 10-flowered umbels from usually short, woody, axillary tubercles; 



pedicels slender, 



35 



to 



6 



in. 



long ; 



the 



minute bracteole about the middle 



pedicel thinner above the bracteole; buds '2 in. in diam., depressed-globular, obtuse 



i 



3-angled; perianth cleft nearly to its base, the teeth broad, triangular, minut ly stellate 

 tomentose outside as are the pedicels, glabrous and striate within, very concave; 

 staminal disc small, flat, 3-angled, glabrous; anthers 10 to 18, radiating horizontally, 

 the filaments distinct, short; stalk of the disc cylindric, glabrous, ridged, thickened 

 in its upper part. Female flowers unknown. Fruit 1 in. or more long when ripe, ovoid- 

 globose, blunt, slightly ridged at the suture and slightly gibbous at the base on one 

 side, pedicelled; when young densely and minutely rufous-tomentose, afterwards sub- 



glabrescent; pericarp thin ; .arillus thin, red, closely embracing the seed, irregularly 

 lobed at the apex; seed ovoid-globose. M. laurina, BL, var. Borneensis, Miq. Ann. Jfus. 



Lugd. Bat ii. 51. 



A species not unlike M. intermedia, Bl.; but at once distinguished by its flat (not 



mammillate) disc. 



lobular and smaller, and the reticulations of its leaves are much moro minute. 

 Perak: common at elevations from 500 to 1,500 feet, Scortechini, Wray, Kings 



It also resembles M. furfuracea, but its ripe fruit is moro glabrescent, 



more 



Collector. Malacca, Demj. Distrib.— Borneo. 



Plate 153. Myristica Scortechinii, King. 

 fruit; 3, apex of seed showing the lobed arillus; 



Branch with male flowers 

 . base of cordate leaves 



> 



, ripe 



natural 



size 



5 & 



male flowers; 



staminal disc and anthers ; 7, ovary— nktrged. 



50. Myristica intermedia, Blume Rumph. i. 187. A tree 40 fo 70 feet hiarh : brand 



G 



the youno-est thinly covered with, minute, scurfy, rufous tomentum, ultimately 



L 



slender, 



dark-coloured and glab 



tapering but little towards the acute 



coriaceous, glab 

 shortly acuminate apex 



ly oblong-lanceolate 



towards 



cuneate 



(rarely rounded 



sub-cordate) base; upper surface shining 



lower dull, pale 



to 22 pairs, spreading, rather prominent on both surfaces; length 5 to 12 



nerves 12 



breadth -8 to 3 in. ; petiole -5 



deciduously tomentose, like the young brand 



in.. 



Male 



S from short/rounded, woody tnbereles in the a*ils of leaves or of fallen leaves 



jwwti* awi« ? '„±u mtnnfJw rufniis-tomentose. I 



um 



be 1 



of 6 or 8 ; pedicels and outer surface of perianth minutely 



floeculent 



bracteole small 



above the middle of the '4 in. long ped 



rufous-tomentose, sub- 



the buds 



snb Xbose sli,ht!y pointed; perianth when expanded -25 to 3 in in diam.; its segments 



suo-gioDOhe, &ii ut.j y ; .r Si^m.nal. dsc verv convex 



triangular-ovate 



sub-acute 



glabrous 



and striate 



thers 12 to 



(mammillate) ; ai 



disc very short, thickened 



<m 



but sessile 



d 



15, sessile, radiating, their dehi 



wards the apex. Female 



the bracteole close to the base of the fl 



downwards: stalk of 



illary 



bels like th 



buds 



oid 



> 



lobes 



of perianth 



ovary 



j 



ovoid, minutely rufous-tomentose; stigma sessile, 



A* N . Boy. Bot. Sard. Calcutta Yol. Ill 



