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THE SPECIES OP MYRISTICA 



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Myristica glauca, Blume Bijd, 



576 



j 



Rumphia, i. 182, t. 60. A tree from 2 



to 



70 feet high 



branches when quite young rusty-puberul 



afterwards glabrous, dark 



d. Leaves thinly coriaceous, glab 



when adult, oblong-lanceolate 



y 



slightly 



narrowed to the acute or shortly acuminate apex and to the cuneate or rounded 



•ous, shining; lower whitish or pale brown, but not glaucous, 

 nerves 14 to 20 pairs, spreading; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 



base ; upper surface glabrous, 

 the nerves darker; main nerve 

 1-6 to 2*5 in.; petiole '4 to -6 

 tubercles; the pedicels # 25 to 

 to the flower; buds ovoid-glob 

 ferruginous-tomentose 

 disc erlabrous, concave ; 



Male jl 



in umbels of 3 to 6, from short 



35 in. long, with a minute semi-rotund bracteol 



Uary 

 close 



2 in. in diam. ; perianth lobes ovate, rather blunt 



outside like the ped 

 the anthers 6 to 12 



glabrous and striate within. Staminal 



> 



sessile, sub-erect ; pedicel of disc 



S 



thickened upwards 



dged 



glab 



Female Jit 



tb 



pedicels shorter and the buds oblong, -2 in. wide when expanded; the teeth 



umbellate like the males, but 



sub- 



triangula 



tomentose 



lly like the 



m 



de the teeth glabrous 



the tube tightly 



embracing 



the pistil. Ovary glob 



densely rufous-tomentose 



tyl 



short, fleshy; stigma broad, fleshy, 2-lobed 



the lobes lobulate 



Fruit shortly stalked 



solitary 



2 to 5 together 



psoid to ovoid globose, rather pointed, densely rufous 



slightly ridged at the 



tomentose at first, ultimately glabrous; -75 to 1*25 in. long 



suture; arillus fleshy, quite entire, and enveloping the whole of the broadly ovoid 



seed. M. Sumatrana, Bl. Rumph. i. 187; M. corticosa, Hook. fil. fy Thorns. FL Ind. 158 



(in part); 



A. DC. Prod 



IV. 



1 



205 (in part) ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i, pi. 2, 69, and 



Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 207; ii. 51 (loth in part) 



K\ 



FL B 



n. 



284 (in part) 



M. glauc 



H. f. FL Br. Ind. v. Ill, vix H. f. &f Th. (in part), Knema corticosa, 



Lour. FL Cock- Chine, ed. Willd., 742. 



Tenasserim ; Gallatly. Martaban and Pegu, K 



I). Prain. Andamans; 



Diamond Island and Narcondam 



Kurz, King. Nicobars ; Kurz 3 King's Collector 



Pen 



ang 



Curtis 



Singapore 



Ridley 



Cantley. Malacca; Maingay (Kew. Hist.) 1280-2, Hervey. Uistrib 



Sumatra, Java. 



The Burm 



and And 



j 



founded 



specimens, upon which the foregoing descript 



? 



agree well with Blume's descript 



d 



fig 



of M. glauca 



d 



L IS 



are 



tly like authentic specimens of M. 



at Peradeniya, Calcutta and Leiden 



d also (fide Hook, fil 



Thorns. FL Ind. 158) with authentic specimens of Loureir 



K 



corticosa. Drs. Hooker and Thomson, being at the time they wrote the Flor 



Indica of the opinion that the genus Ki 

 this species the name Myristica corticosa. 

 India, however. 



I 



would ultimately have to be kept up, gave 

 the subsequently published Flora of British 



Sir Joseph Hooker writes that 



<< 



the 



copious specimens 



date of the Flora Indica show that the Tenasserim 



M. 



d Malayan 



eived sin 

 included 



the 

 der 



ticosa in that work are not different from 31. gl 



j> 



The 



very numerous 



specimens brought still more recently by the Calcutta Garden Collectors from Perak 



the Andaman Islands 



d 



ewhere, seem to me to 



earlier view is the correct one, and that K 



pr 



that Sir Joseph Hooker 



ticosa and My 



sparable by the characters given abo 



gl 



I have therefore followed the earlier view 



In his Rumph 



187) Bl 



proposes the name M. Sumatrana f 



a 



collected by Korthals in Sumatra and referred by that botanist to M. glauca 



plant 



Bl. 



This plant appears to be merely a 



31 



ed by Miquel (FL Ind. Bat. Suppl 



large-leaved 



M. 



form of 31. 



384) 



and is the plant 



Bl 



var. Sumatrana, Miq., is also 



appar 



ticosa, H. f. & T., var. Sumatra* 



as specimens from the Leid 





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