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M :• lonpfolia (in part), Hoot fil. $ Thorns. Fhr. Br. Ind. 156; Kurz For. Fhr. Bum. ii. 



283 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat i, pt. 2, p. 69 



Hot valleys in the Eastern Himalaya, and in the Assam and Ctifciffonff II 

 Ranges ; Naga and Kliasia Hills ; Burmah 



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There are in the Calcutta Herbarium imperfect specimens from Assam of what may 

 be a new species of Myristica, closely allied to longifolia. One of these (No. 4345, 

 Herb. Griffith, and attributed to Burmah) lias leaves often 2 feet long with cuneate 

 bases and with sub-sessile male flowers. 



Plate 164. Myristica longifolia, Wall. 1, Branch with male flowers; 2, male 

 flower; 3, the same dissected— of natural size; 4 & 5, andmrium— enlarged. 



Plate 166. Myristica longifolia, Wall. 1, Branch with ripe fruit; 2, fascicle of 

 ripe fruit; 3, ripe fruit in section showing seed; 4, seed covered by arillus— all i 

 natural size. 



60. Myristica Clarkeana, n. pp. King. A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; youngest branch, 

 densely furfuraceous, rusty-tomentose, soon becoming glabrous and dark-coloured, the 

 older cinereous. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous except the petioles, oblong to < 11 iptic oblong, 

 sometimes oblanceolate, sub-acuminate, slightly narrowed in the lower third to the 

 rounded, emarginate or slightly cordate base; upper surface shining, the lower dull, 

 sub-glaucous; main nerves 18 to 25 pairs, spreading, rather prominent, some of them 

 bifurcating; length 10 to 17 in., breadth 1*75 to 4 in.; petiole *4 to '7 in., rusty-tonn ntoto 



at first, afterwards glabrous. Male flowers in crowded clusters of from 8 to 16 from 



tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves; pedicellate, clavate, '25 in. long, 

 covered like the pedicels with dense, soft, rufous tommtum ; pedicels -25 to *95 in. long, 

 the bracteole minute and near the base ; perianth coriaceous, divided into 3 rather short 

 broad, deep, triangular, concave teeth, vertically striate internally ; stalk of etaminal disc 

 as long as the tube of the perianth, cylindric, slightly thickened upwards, striate, 

 glabrous; the disc orbicular, concave, glabrous; anthers about 13, ovate, rather short, at 

 first erect, ultimately horizontal, dehiscing downwards. Female flon'crs unknown. Fruit 

 narrowly ellipsoid, pointed at both ends, rather under 1*5 in. long and about -75 in. in 

 diam. at first rufous-tomentose, ultimately quite glabrous; pericarp thin, coriaceous; 

 arillus thin entire, covering the whole of the seed, slightly laeiniato and conduplicate 



at the apex; seed ellipsoid, smooth 



Ohitta^ong: Collectors of Botanic Garden, Calcutta, Nos. 97, 412, 496 & C05 



Assam, Peal No. 90. 



A species allied to M. longifolia, Wall., but with leaves less glaucous beneath 



more clavate more numerous male flowers; and with glabrous, narrowly ellipsoid fruit 



ds 



pointed at both ei . # # # 



Plate 165. Myristica Clarkeana, King. 1, Branch with male flowers; 2, ripe fruit; 



3 arillus' covering seed; 4, pericarp opened up-o/ natural s'ze ; 5, male flower; 

 ei stamina! column and disc with anthers -enlarged. 



Hookeriana, Wall. Cat. 68024. A tree 50 to 80 feet high ; young 



61. M 



bran 



orancue. stout, the youngest parts (as well as the pedicels, flowers, and ripe h 

 ZTv covered with tawny or rufous, soft, floceulcnt wool. Leu , conaceous, oblong 



uxufceiv o^» «kJ**^» a* armfo r»rl<rps wn.vv. narrowed to thn snVi 



nceolate or oblon 



apex obtuse or acute, edges wavy, narrowed to the sub 



acute 



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sometimes minutely cordate, base ; both surfaces glabrous when adult, but occasionally 



A™. Bo*. Ber. Gaud. C.uxctta Vol. in. 



