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THE SPECIES OF MYRISTICA 



broad, with 6 to 8 short, sub-erect, narrow 

 clusters of 2 or 3, 1*25 to 1*75 in., ellipsoid 



lobes. 

 , blunt 



with a thin layer of minute scurfy rufous tomentum 



laciniate towards the apex, 



fil 



Fruit usually solitary 



grooved on one s 



arillus thin, entire, 



de 



or 



completely enveloping the elongate sub-rug 



seed 



rely in 

 covered 



slightly 

 Hook. 



Thorns. Fl. Ind. 158; Book. fil. FL Br. Ind. v. 112 



Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 70 

 Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 51 



? M. corticosa, H 



A. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 206 

 T*. var. decipiens, Miq. Am< 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 4359 (with diseased male flowers); Maingay 1281 



Perak ; JScortechini, King* 



Curtis. Singapore; Cant leg, Lobb, Ridley 



Cantley. Penang, 



Collector, Wray. Penang, Curtis. 



The fruits of this are always, and the leaves are 



i y 



arger 



tha 



those of 



M. glauca, Bl 

 in those prov 



It is. however, at once distinguished from that and from every other K) 



pt M. Cantleyi, by the curious manimillate staminal disc 





Plate 154. Myristica intermedia, Bl 



1 



Branch with female flowers 



fruit; 2, twig with 



male flowe 



;j 



section of fruit showing arillus 



and 

 ing 



ripe 

 seed 



(slightly laciniate towards apex) 



and disc with anthers ; 6, female flower ; 7 



natural size ; 4, male flo 



5 



staminal col 



y — en larged, 



\ 



51. Myristica furfuracea, Hook, fil 



Thorns. Fl. Ind. 159. A tree 40 to 60 feet 



hicm ; branchlets stout, the bark smooth, black and much cracked when old ; when very 



m * ■ 



young densely covered by a thick layer of scurfy, tawny or rusty tomentum 



L 



glab 



owly oblong-lanceolate 



acute or acuminate, slightly narrowed 





to the cordate slightly unequal base ; upper surface shining ; lower dull, pale, purplish 



when dry; lateral 



in., breadth 1*75 to 4-5 in.; petiole stout 



20 to 28 pairs, prominent beneath, spreading; length 10 to 20 



sty-tomentose when young, ultimately 



■- 



labrous, *4 



woody tubercl 



long 



Male fi< 



6 to 8-flowered umbels, rising 



from 



the axils of 



or of fallen 



pedicels *3 to *4 



short 

 lonsr. 



flocculent rusty-tomentose 



middle of 



pedicel which 



^cornered, flat-topped, *15 



the outer surface of the flower, the bracteole about the 

 thinner above than below its insertion; buds obtusely 

 a diam. ; perianth deeply divided into 3 blunt, triangular 



teeth, glabrous and striate inside. Staminal disc rotund, obscurely 3-angled, concave 



> 



glab 



anthers about 12, radiating, curving upwards, sub-sessile; stalk of disc glab 



ylindrie, thickened upwards, prominently 



dged 



Female fl< 



3 in. long 



umbels 



like 



of the male, but fewer-flowered, sessile, and the bracteole at the base of the 



perianth; bud ovoid-globose; segments of perianth ovate, sub - acute ; ovary sessile, globose, 

 densely rufous-tomentose ; stigma sessile, discoid, with many linear lobes, glabrous. 

 Fruit sub-globose at first and densely tomentose ; when ripe ovoid or ellipsoid, blunt, 1 to 

 1-25 in. long, the perianth sub-accrescent and persistent at its base, rufous-tomentose ; 



ng the whole of the seed, except the 

 divided into 5 or 6 narrow lobes. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 



pericarp thick; arillus thin, completely envelop 

 extreme apex, where it is 



112: A. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 206; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 70 



Knema gla 



Wall. Cat. 6810 (not of Jack) 



Penang, Curtis No 



1459 



Perak, King 



Collector. Malacca; Griffith N 



4346 



(K 



Distrib.), Maingay (Kew Distrib. Nos. 1287 & 1288) 



Resembling M. intermedia in many points, but with 

 ;ave, not mammillate, glabrous staminal disc. 



larger, cordat 



and 



a 



