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THE SPECIES OP MYRISTICA 



pairs 



spreading, rather straight, 



lower paler and duller; main nerves 16 to 18 



interarching indistinctly close to the margin, thin but prominent on the lower surface ; 



length 



10 to 12 in., breadth 3 to 3*5 in.; petiole *75 to 1 in. Male and female 

 flowers unknown. Fruit in lax, glabrous panicles, about a foot long, ellipsoid, the apex 

 blunt, suddenly constricted just above the base, 1*25 to 1*5 in. long; pericarp 

 leathery, thin, glabrous; arillus thin, fleshy, shortly laciniate at the apex, covering the 

 whole of the seed. M. amygdalina, var. Hookeri, A. 



Burmah ; Trogla Hills, Tavoy, 



DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 204 {in part). 



Wallich. 



This has not been collected since Wallich's time. 



other Burmese species ; 



its nearest ally being the 



It is very distinct from any 



Penang 



species 31. racemosa 



i 



King, 



and the Molucca and Celebes species 3L ?nacrocoma, Miq. Wallich's types of this were 



collected, according to his catalogue, only on the Trogla Hills and at 



Tavoy. 



The 



specimens from Moulmein, which he appears to have distributed under this name, belong 



i 



- 



to other species; and they have been referred by Sir Joseph Hooker and M. DeCandolle 

 partly to M. amygdalina, Wall., var. Iloolceri, and partly to M. Jrua, Gaertn. M. macro- 

 coma, Miq., has leaves thinner than this and more rufous beneath. It has fruit-racemes 

 only half as long as the leaves, and the fruits themselves 

 each end. 



are smaller and tapering to 



Plate 174. My 

 3, fruit opened up; 4 

 No. 



ta. Wall 



1 



Leaf 



cl 



2, panicl 



with 



ripe 



fruit 



6804 from Trogla Hills.) 



d by its arillus— of natural size, {Drawn from Wall. Cat 



6;'>. Mykistica kacemosa 



j 



n. 



sp. King. A tree 40 to 50 feet 



branches thin, glabrous, dark-coloured ; 



high; 



th 



e 



old 



youngest 



er 



striate, polished. Leaves thinly 



coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute or very shortly and abruptly acuminate, 

 the base rounded or slightly cuneate; both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining-, the 

 lower dull and paler; main nerves about 12 pairs 



slightly 



r j — v *'. w " »*""*«» *~ p«**«, on 6 unjr prominent on the upper, 



very prominent on the lower surface, thin, rather straight, spreading, interarching very 



faintly 



near 



the 



margin ; 



length 



6 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 3 in.; petiole '5 to '65 



in- 



Male and female flowers unknown. Fruit in lax glabrous racemes, a foot or more in 



long and about 1 in. in diam. ; 



len 



gth, ovoid, slightly oblique, pointed, 1*75 



in. 



pericarp thickly leathery, glabrous; arillus fleshy, red, completely enveloping the seed, 

 shortly fimbriate at the apex ; seed smooth, ovoid, pointed. 



Penang; Curtis No. 934. 



Of this very dist 



in Penang, and it is a female. 



and fine species only a 



tree is now k 



to 



st 



A 



d tree 



stuff 



ssly cut down by a Chinaman interested in tb 



ted until last year, when it was 



In its 



long 



S 



f some miserable kitel 



Plate 



173 



fruiting racemes this resembles M. exaltata, Wall. Cat. 6804 



& 4, ripe fruit deh 



Myristica racemosa, King. 1, Leaf -twig 



\ 



2 



3 



is 



with the valves 



5, ripe fruit undehisced; 6 



parated to 



ow 



raceme of ripe fruit ; 

 the seed covered by its 



d with arillus partly removed— all of natural 



66. 



Myristica 



PALUDICOLA 



branches about as thick 



? 



as a 



n. sp 

 goose 



King. 



A tree 50 to 80 feet 



high; 



young 



oblong-lanceolate to elliptic- oblong, sub-acute, the 



quill, glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous 



> 



cuneate; upper surface (when dry) pale brown, dull, glabrous; 1 



edge recurved when dry, the base 



ower cmnamoneous, 



