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elliptic-ovoid, the bigger end towards the base, 1'5 by 1 in., suddenly attenuated into 

 a thin stipes, minutely ferruginous-puberulous-pilose, at length sub-glabrous, pale greenish- 

 orange. Seed elliptic, -9 by -6 in.; aril complete, fleshy, blood-red, slightly plicate- 

 lobate at the apex; testa pale buff, membranous; tegment cetaceous." The androecium 

 is remarkable for the number (45) of its anthers. 



Plate 167. Myristica Curtisii, King. 1, Branch with male flowers (from Wray's 

 Perak specimen No. 2112); 2, branch with young fruit (from Curtis's Pcnik specimen 



No. 1320); 3, ripe fruit from Maingay's specimen No. 1301; 4, seed covered by its 

 arillus — of natural she; 5, bud of male flower; 6, mule flower opened; 7, the earn. 



dismembered; 8, staminal disc with anthers; 0, ovary— enlarged. 



63. Myristica Cantleyi, Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 110. A tree 20 to 50 feet 



high; young branchlets slender, densely felted with rufous toiaectum, afterwards 

 glabrous and pale brown, rarely dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or linear- 

 oblong, acute, the base rounded or sub-acute; when very young flocculent rufous- 

 tomentose, ultimately quite glabrous on both surfaces; main nerves 16 to 20 pairs, 

 thin but prominent and forming intramarginal arches; midrib prominent on both 

 surfaces ; length 9 to 15 in., breadth 2 to 3 in. ; petiole about 1 in., at first rufous- 



tomentose, like the branchlets, but ultimately glabrous. Male flowers dennly felted, 

 rufous-tomentose, in many-flowered sessile umbels from the axils of leaves and of 

 fallen leaves ; pedicels -25 to -4 in. long, tomentose like the perianth, bracteole close 

 to the flower; buds depressed, obovoid- globose, -25 in. in diam. ; lobes of tho perianth 

 broadly triangular, glabrous within; staminal disc orbicular, very con v. x (man.millate), 

 papillose; anthers 13 to 15, on short filaments radiating from its edges and dehiscing 

 downwards. Stalk of disc very short, thick, minutely hairy, not ridged. Fnn<u Jlowr * 

 sessile, in few-flowered clusters; buds ovoid, tho bracteole minute, close to tho flower; 

 lobes of perianth triangular, glabrous inside; ovary globular, ovoid, sessile, densely 

 rufous-tomentose; style short; stigma large, stellate, with about 12 deep narrow lobes 

 Fruit ellipsoid, blunt, about 1-25 in. long, -8 in. broad, densely covered with felted 

 rufous tomentum; the three lobes of the perianth slightly enlarged and persistent at 

 its base; peduncle thick, '25 in. long; arillus thin, entirely enclosing the narrowly 



Allied to M. intermedia, Bl, by its umbonate d« and not unlike t m lea and 

 fruit but much more tomentose. At once distingmshed by the perartent penanth at 



^ kTxB^lS Myristica Cantleyi, W jL h Branch with male flowers; 2, ripe 

 ^"T^or^ by its arillus^W ^ 

 column and disc v 



ith anthers; 7, ovary; 8, stigma seen from above-™/^. 



Imperfectly known species, of which the position 



u ncerta 



6804 A. Sr B. A tree; young branches 



T ._. mffl Cat. 6804 A. cf *>- » *"*> » J"~"*> 



64. MvE IS TicA mm^ _• ^^ Mwg to ob , ong . lanceol te , acute; 



dark-coloured, smooth. J**vt j rface8 glabrous, the upper shmmg, the 



the base slightly cuneate or rounded, 



