MYRISTIOAOEA. 495 
are nearly free instead of united. In Compsoneura there are six, 
- erect and verticillate. In Jrya,? the central part of the androceum 
is pear-shaped, with a concave summit surrounded by a circle of 
short anthers, attached around its outer edge. In the male flowers 
of M. corticosa’ (figs. 307, 308), for- 
merly made the type of a genus 
Knema,‘ the perianth leaves are 
thick, and bevelled into a wedge 
shape internally ; and the andro- 
ceum, very short in proportion, forms 
a little column dilated above into a 
prominent, flattened or concave 
head. From the edge of this head 
diverge short rays, each bearing 
a short oval or rounded anther, 
whose two cells open by longitudinal 
slits looking downwards and outwards. Finally in Pyrrhosa,’ also 
raised to generic rank by some, the androceum consists of a little 
ovoid or obovoid elongated mass, the whole of whose surface is 
divided into a variable number of divisions, each of which is a linear 
anther, sometimes of extreme delicacy. 
Thus constituted’ the genus Myristica contains about eighty 
species,’ all arborescent or frutescent, with alternate, often distichous 
penniveined leaves. All have axillary or supra-axillary inflores- 
cences, sometimes simple sometimes much ramified and formed, 
especially in the male flowers, of a very large number of flowers. 
Uyristica (Knema) corticosa. 
Fig. 307. 
Male flower (8). 
Fi¢. 308. 
Androceum (14°). 
1A. DC., Prodr., 199 (sect. vi.). 
? Hoox. ¥. & THoms., Fl. Ind., i. 159.—B., 
Rumphia, i. 190 (Pyrrhosa).—A. D€., Prodr., 
202 (sect. xi.). 
3 Hoox. F. & THoms., loc. cit., 158.—A. DC., 
Prodr., n. 70.—M. globularis Lamx., in Mém. 
Ac. Se, Par. (1788), 162.— M. glauca Bt., 
Bijdr., 576.—M. sumatrana Bu., Rumphia, i. 
187.— UW. angustifolia Roxs., Fl. Ind., iii. 
847.— WU, glaucescens Hoox. ¥. & Tuoms., loc. 
cit., 157. —- Knema corticosa Lour., Fl. Co- 
chinch., 742. — K. glaucescens Jacx., Mal. 
Mise, ; in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag., i. 149. 
4 Lovr., Fl. Cochinch., '742.—Bt., Rumphia, 
i, 187, t. 60, 61.—Enpw., Gen. u. 4707.—A. 
DC., Prodr., 204 (sect. xiii.). 
5 BL, Rumphia, i. 190, t. 62, 63.—Hoox. F. 
& Tuoms., Fl. Ind., i. 160.—A. DC., Prodr. 
202 (sect. xii.). 
§ To the preceding sections A. pr CANDOLLE 
has added four others ; Caloneura (Prodr., 192) ; 
Horsfieldia (W.), nec Bu, nec. BENN. (Prodr., 
200); Dictyoneura (Prodr., 201); Iryanthera 
(Prodr., 201). 
7 Porr., Dict., Suppl., iv. 35.—Sw., Fl. Ind, 
Oce., 1129.—Bu., Bijdr., 575; Rumphia, 180. 
—Scnorr., in Spreng. Syst., App. 409. — 
H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., ii. 156.—R. Br., 
Prodr. N, Holt., 400.—Manrvt., Reise, ii, 543.— 
Buanco, Fl. d. Filipp., 664.—Roxs., Fl. Ind., 
iii, 847.—Brnru., in Hook. Journ. (1853), 3.— 
Bents. & F. Mvuett., Fl. Austr, v. 281.— 
Hoox. ¥. & Tuoms., Fl. Ind., i. 156.—MiaQ., 
Pl. Jungh., 171.—A. DC., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 
4, iv. 29.—H. Bn., in Adansonia, viii. 79.— 
Watp., Ann., iv. 80; v. 743. 
