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THE SPECIES OF MYKISTICA 



but with a pale glaucous bloom. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong- 

 oblanceolate, acute or sub-acute; base cuneate, slightly oblique, rarely rounded; upper 

 surface shining ; the lower pale, glaucous or sub-glaucous, the 15 to 20 pairs of nerves 

 spreading, prominent beneath ; length 3*5 to 7 in., breadth 1 to 2*5 in. ; petiole '4 to 

 •6 in. Male flowers in axillary umbels on woody peduncles which become warted 

 and lengthen with age to about *5 in.; flowers on short pedicels, rarely so much as 

 •25 in. long, rufous-tomentose, the bracteole sub-rotund, close to the base of the flower ; 

 buds sub-globose; perianth about '15 in. in diam., deeply divided into 3 broad, triangular 

 teeth ; outside hairy like the peduncles, inside ridged and glabrous ; staminal disc 

 flat or sub-concave, glabrous, with about 10 sessile anthers radiating from its edge, 

 its stalk thick, shorter or longer than the perianth-tube. Female flowers in axillary 

 pedunculate umbels like the males ; flower oblong, blunt, not obovoid ; perianth as 

 regards hairs like the male, its teeth shorter ; ovary sessile, broadly ovoid, pointed, 

 rufous-hairy ; style short, fleshy ; stigma with 2 large, fleshy, flat, obliquely pointed lobes. 

 Fruit 1 in. long and *75 in. in diam., obliquely ovoid, pointed, gibbous at one side, 

 2-ridged, minutely rufous-tomentose, pedicel *3 to *4 in.; arillus thin, enveloping the 

 whole seed, with 4 to 6 shallow lobes at the apex; seed ovoid, smooth. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. v, 112 ; A. .DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 205. M, corticosa (in part), Kurz For. 



Fl. JBurm. ii. 284. 



Assam ; Griffith, Jenkins, Masters No. 1952 ; Collett No. 70. Khasia, Hook. fil. 

 Thorns. ; Griffith (Eew Dist.) No. 4348. Chittagong, Hook. fil. Sf Th. Burmah ; Scott, 



Kurz No. 983; Heifer No. 4349, Griffith. Malacca; Maingay (Eew Hist. No. 1282 

 Miller. 



This does not seem to be a common species. The best two marks by which to 

 distinguish it from its nearest ally M. glaucescens, Hook. fil. & Thorns., are the long, 

 woody, warted, accrescent peduncles of its inflorescence, and the larger (1 to 1*25 in. 

 long) gibbous fruit. 



Plate 159. Myristica gibbosa, Hook. fil. 6f Thorns. 1, Branch with male flowers ; 



2, ripe fruit, entire ; 3, vertical section of the same ; 4, seed with arillus — of natural 

 size ; 5 & 6, male flowers ; 7 & 8, staminal column and disc with anthers ; 9, female 

 flower ; 10, ovary — enlarged. 



56. Myristica geminata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. JSupp. 385. A tree ; young branches 

 slender, rufous-furfuraceous (as are the leaves), ultimately glabrous. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, sub-acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded ; upper surface 

 shining, the lower sub-glaucous ; main nerves 12 to 15 pairs, thin but prominent 

 beneath, spreading ; length 3 to 4 in., breadth 1 to 1*3 in. ; petiole # 3 to *5 in., thin. 

 Male flowers in 3 or 4-flowered, sessile, axillary umbels ; pedicel *2 in. long, the bracteole 

 small, just above its middle ; buds globose and less than *1 in. in diam. Perianth with 

 3 ovate, sub-acute teeth, externally rufous-puberulous, internally glabrous and striate ; 

 staminal disc flat, glabrous, with 9 or 10 sessile anthers radiating from its edge and 

 curving upwards ; stalk of disc short, glabrous. Female flowers unknown. Fruit axillary, 

 usually in pairs, often solitary, ellipsoid or ovoid, not gibbous, the apex blunt, the base 

 narrowed, the sides ridged, minutely rufous-pubescent, '75 to 1 in. long ; pericarp thin ; 

 arillus thin, fleshy, entire, below the apex slightly laciniate ; seed shining. 



Burmah, Tenasserim ; Bot. Gard. Collector. Perak, Scortechini No. 1527. Distrib. 

 Sumatra, 







