Myristica.] LAURINE#. 895 
stigma usually sessile, capitate discoid or lobed. Fruit more or 
less fleshy or thickly coriaceous, often splitting into 2, sometimes 
into 4 valves. Seed erect, with a fleshy or membranous, entire, 
coloure 
often aromatic arillus; testa usually thick; albumen copious, 
ard, ruminate; embry small, basal; cotyledons divaricate, 
rt. 
ery 8 
flat or corrugated ; a a inferior, sho 
793. Myristica Linn. 
Knema Bl, 
Large, evergreen trees; leaves alternate, entire, lanceolate ; 
stipules 0. Flowers small, dicecious, regular; males pedicelled, in 
clusters of 3-15 from short, axillary tubercles ; eiiolls with a 
Persistent bracteole usually near the middle; females axillary, 
solitary or clustered. Perianth usually 3-lobed. ¢ Staminal 
column peltate, disk-like, flat or concave, rarely convex, usually 
stalked; anthers discrete, ovate, usually sessile, attached by their 
bases or by short filaments from edge of disk, spreading hori- 
With dehiscence outwards. Frwit more or less a usually 
2lobed in dehiscence ; arillus usually shortly laciniat 
Leaves a foot long or longer longifolia 
Leaves under a foot long longifolia var. erratica. 
1766. Myristica LONGIFOLIA Wall.; F. BY. v.°110; E. D. 
M. 901 
Chittagong. 
A lofty tree. 
1766/2. Var. errarica F. B. I. v.110; E.D.M.901. M. linifolia 
Chittagong. 
A lofty tree. 
Order CIX. LAURINEZ. 
Erect, aromatic trees or shrubs, usually evergreen. Leaves 
alternate, rarely opposite or deciduous, gland-dotted ; stipules 0; 
very rarely (Cassytha) leafless, parasitic Flowers 
» Small, hermaphrodite or 1-sexual, in axillary cymes, 
clusters, panicles, or racemes; bracts deciduous, often involuerate, 
