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Herbarium show) his own M. eorticosa, Bl, vab. lanceolala. In Blume's figure of 



M. glauca (Rumpha u t. 60) the arillus is represented as red ; whereas in sp, .men. 

 irom Narcondam, of which the fruit was not quite ripe when collected by Dr. Prain, 

 the arillus was pearly white. Possibly the red colour develops as the fruit ripens ? 

 Should Enema be re-established as a genus, the name of this plant would therefore 



,Lf neMl CWtk0Sa ' L0Ur - (1793 )' But a3 a M«ri»tica, the name M. glauca, Blumo 



(1825), takes precedence. 



Plate 157. Myristica glauca, Blume. 1, Branch with ripo fruit (original specimen 

 from Buitenzorg Herbni.) ; 2, portion of branch with male flowers; 3, portion of 



branch with female flowers ; 4, cluster of young fruit ; 5, arillus covering seed— all 



tural size; 6, male flower; 7 & 8, staminal column and disc with anthers; 9, fcmaU 



flower ; 10, ovary— enlarged. 



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54. Mykistica Missionis, Wall Cat. 6788. A tree 20 to 50 foot high ; youn_ 

 branches slender, dark-brown, minutely tawny-pubescent when young, ultimately glab- 

 rous and striate. Leaves linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, ;ut* 

 or shortly acuminate, the base acute ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining, the 

 lower rather pale, sub-glaucous, the midrib prominent ; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, 

 sub-erect, slightly prominent beneath, puberulous when young ; length 3 5 to 6*5 in. 

 breadth 1 to 1*5 in. (rarely 1*75 in.); petiole '4 to *5 in. Male flowers in numer* 

 ous, 6 to 9-flowered fascicles on short axillary, warted tubercles; bu«is depreiied- 

 globose, bluntly 3-angled, *1 in. in diam. ; perianth thick, with 3 triangular teeth, 

 stellate-tomentose outside, striate and glabrous inside ; pedicel *2 to *3 in. long, 

 tomentose like the perianth ; the bracteole above the middle, small. Slaminal disc 

 concave, its stalk short, striate; anthers about 11, sessile, radiating. Female flowers larger 

 than the males, but in fewer-flowered racemes ; buds clavate ; perianth with 3 broad, 

 obtuse, spreading teeth ; ovary globose, rufous-silky ; style short, glabrous ; stigma with 

 2 spreading, lobulate lobes. Fruit spherical, apiculate, *5 to -6 in. in diam., silky- 

 tomentose at first, but glabrescent with age, the slightly enlarged perianth persistent 

 at its base; seed globose, smooth; arillus thin, fimbriate at the apex. M. corticosa, 



Hook. fll. Sf Thorns. Fl. Ind. 158 (in part) ; A. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 205; Mig. Fl. 



Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 69 (in part) ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 284. M. jilaucescens, Hook. 

 fit Fl Br. Ind. v. Ill (in part). M. sphserula, Hook, fil Fl. Br. Ind. v. 809. 

 M. lanceolata, Wall Cat. 6794. ? M. angustifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 847 



Burmah : at Mergui, Griffith ; at Yaitho, Brandis ; at Rangoon, Falconer ; Heifer, 

 (Km Dktrib. No. 4344). Penang, Curtis Nos. 700 & 935. Malacca; Griffith, Harvey 

 Cantley. Selangor, Curth. Pahang, Ridley No. 541. 



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The descriptions of their species given by the earlier writers on Mgrktica are so 

 incomplete, that it is very doubtful whether several of the synonyms reduced above 



^"iSS Myristica Missionis, Wall. 1, Branch with male flowers ; 2, branch with 



Plate 158 Myn ^ periaDth . ^ andrflecmm . 



S V We flowIS ; t -ry, style, and stigma-^ ; 9 style and stigma- 



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still further enlarged. 



55. Myristica 

 branches slender, at 



CI bbosa, Eooh fil. * Thorn. Fl. Indl5S. A tree; *»7™«f 

 first rufous scurfy-puberulous, their bark afterwards dark-coloured, 





