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OF BRITISH INDIA. 



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:a 



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» young with some loose sub-flocculent pubescence, when adult minutely adpressed- 

 puberulous; nerves 9 to 12 pairs, spreading, thin, interarching faintly towards the 

 margin ; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2'25 to 3 in., petiole -75 to 1 in. Mak fbu, 

 unknown. Female panicles axillary, stout, branched, spreading, 2 to 3 in. long and 

 about as broad, covered with deciduous, scurfy, rusty pubescence. Flomn •! in. 



in diam., depressed, obovoid-glubose, glabrous; perianth thick, fleshy, 2-vnh d 

 ovary sessile, globose, ridged on one side, glabrous; stigma small, $4dbed. / t % 

 to 5, on short racemes or small panicles, narrowly ovoid, pointed, glabrous, tho slightly 

 accrescent perianth persistent at its base ; pericarp coriaceous, thick (when dry 

 rugose) ; arillus rather thick, fleshy, entire, enveloping the whole of the smooth *•. I 



Perak: in wet ground, at low elevations; Kinfi Collector Nos. -1267, #706, 0088 

 Wray No. 3071. 



Plate 169. Myristica paludicola, King. 1, Branch with panicle of fcnialo flower - 



* 



, panicle of young fruit; 3, raceme of ripo fruit; 4, section of fruit; 5, arillus 

 covering seed — of natural size ; 6, female flower ; 7, ovary — mlarged. 



67. Mykistica pendulina, Hook, fit in Ft. Br. Ind. v. 850. A tree with spread 

 fng branches ; the branchlets very long, as thick as the forefin er (at its 1» < 

 slender towards the apex, finely rusty-tomentose when young, afterwards <lark 



coloured, glabrous and minutely warted. Leaves pendul 



wly obi 





acuminate ; the base rounded or cuneate, narrowed into the very short, broad, 

 winged petiole (the wings inflexed) ; upper surface pale brown, dull, glabrous; town 

 minutely rusty-tomentose at first, afterwards glabrous; nerves 30 to 50 pahs, spread- 

 in^, rather prominent beneath, interarching boldly '1 to -2 in. from the margin 

 length 10 to 20 in., breadth 2 to 3 in. ; petiole about "25 in., broad, winged. Mai 

 flowers unknown. Female panicles ebracteate, axillary, robust, 3 to 4 in. long and 

 about 2 in. broad, densely rufous-tomentose ; branches short, horizontal, few-flowered. 

 Flower* pedicellate, ellipsoid, 25 in. long, glabrous; perianth coriaceous, shortly 2 -rid ; 



•y 



broadlv ovoid, sub-gibbous, grooved on one side, scurf) 



pie, sessi 



Fruits (unpollenised) one or two at the apex of a peduncle, ovoid, glabrous, about 2 



Ion* and 1-25 in. in diam ; pericarp fleshy, -4 or '5 in. thick; peduncle 1-5 to 2 



in 



in. long. 



Singapore; Canity, Ridley. Distrib.-Bcerce 



Remarkable for the length of its leaves and short-winged petioles. This approache 

 M. sylvestris, Houtt. (with which it has indeed been mixed in the Royal Herbarium 

 Leiden), but has larger, smoother leaves and much thicker branches. The panicles of 



m . —,„, moreover, are pedunculate and have scurfy, rufou*u™nt,« bracts as long 

 as the flower, Only a single tree of this exists i» S.ngapore, and ,t » . ^J™T 



/¥*. sylvesti 



. it lorms fruits, which of course are imperfect. It is of one of these which (through 



, / # MV Ridlev Director of the Botanic Garden, Singapore) I am enabled to 

 kindness of Ar. ludiey, uu^i d;ji«- 



it forms 



o-ive a fi 



oive a figure The' tree, for a photograph of which I am also indebted to Mr. Kidlcy 

 present. a very remarkable appearance owing to its lax pendulous branches and long 



distichous leaves. ^ , _ part of a branch ;th a iclo 



PlA te 170. Myr.st.oa d ^ 8> ^ same cut open _ o/ natural mt; 



of female flowers; 2, an 



4. female flo wer ; 5 , ovary-« Urged. 



