OF BRITISH LS'DIA. 



32a 



This species was originally described by Miquel from Sumatran specimens. It is 

 a bed to M giblosa H. f. & Th., from which it differs chieflv in its senile, not 

 elongated and warted, male inflorescence; in its much smaller flowers with bracteole 

 not close to the bud; and in its fruit, not gibbous and not pointed. It is also allied to 

 M. glaucescens, H. f. & Th. 



Plate 160. Myristica geminata, Miq. 1, Branch with male Bowers: 2 



; «, fruiting 1 



branch; 3, fruit in section; 4, seed covered by arillus; 5, apex of arillus-*/ mtural 

 size; 6, male flower; 7, androecium— enlarged. 



57. Myristica glaucescens, Hook. fil. $> Thorns. FL Ind. 157. A tree 30 to 50 feet 



high; youngest branches minutely rufous-pubescent; ultimately glabrous, dark-coloured and 

 striate, slender, leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, Mib-acute 

 base rounded or slightly cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, shining ; lower always pale.' 

 sub-glaucous; lateral nerves 13 to 16 pairs, spreadimr, rather prominent b nesth*; kngtl 



4 to 6 in., breadth 125 to 2 in. ; petiole -35 in. Male fiowcrt in aim st sessile 



illary, 5 to 8-flowered umbels on long (-5 to *6 in.) puberulous pedicels, minutely 



bracteolate above the middle ; buds depressed-globose, bluntly 3 angl< I • perimth 



deeply divided into 3 broadly ovate, acute or sub-acute, fleshy teeth, outside minutely 

 scurfy-tomentose, inside longitudinally striate, glabrous; staminal disc on a short stalk 

 thickened upwards, flat or sub-concave, glabrous or pubescent; stamc •» 9 to II sub- 

 sessile, broadly ovate, radiating from the edges of the disc. Female Jlowcn in fewer 

 flowered umbels than the males, obovoid in bud; ovary sessile, ovoid-gl -hose, narrowed 

 at the apex; style very short; stigma peltate, with 4 acute lobes, glabrous, Fruit 

 small, ovoid or slightly obovoid, narrowed at the base, -5 to '65 in. Ion-, minutely 

 rusty-tomentose, the stigma persistent; pedicel *25 in. long; arillus thin, uniform, 

 irregularly fimbriate at the apex, enveloping the whole of the ovoid- rotund, smooth, 

 dark-coloured seed. Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind. v. (in part). M. corticosa, A. DC. in Prod. 



xiv. 1, 205 (in part) ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pi. 2, p. 69 (in part). ? Knema gl 



Jack in Mai. Misc. No. VII, 35, &f Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 148 (not of Wall.) 



Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) No. 4343 ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) Nos. 1280 & 



1299; Cantley. Perak ; King's Collector, Wray. Singapore, JUdley. 



This is well marked by its small fruit, the seed and aril of which have an odour 



more like that of black pepper than of nutmeg. M. intermedia, vae. minor, Miq. (Fl. 



Ind. Bat. i. 70), may probably belong to this, as is suggested by Sir Joseph Hooker 



And iud°-ing from Miquel's description, his M. palembanica (FL Ind. Bat Supjd., pp. 



e> "~o 



384 & 385) differs but slightly from this. 



Plate 161. Myristica glaucescens, Hook. fil. Sf Thorns. 1, Branch with ripe fruit 

 2 ripe fruit in section showing seed and arillus ; 3, seed and arillus seen from above 

 4 fascicle of male flowers— of natural size; 5, androecium; 6, female flower; 7, ovary 



en larged. 



58 Myristica erratica, Hook, fil. 6f Thorns. Fl. Ind. 156. A tree 20 to 30 feet 



high • young branches slender, at first rusty, scurfy, sub-stellately deciduousiy tomentose; 

 ultimately glabrous, striate and rather pale. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate rather suddenly narrowed to the acute apex ; the base rounded or cuneate. 

 never cordate* upper surface glabrous, shining; the lower dull, sub-glaucous, glabrous 

 except the persistently minutely tomentose midrib; main nerves 20 to 25 pairs, 



Ann. Eoy Bot. Gaud. Calcutta Yol. III. 



