MYRISTICA FARQUHARIANA. (Nat. order Myristicese.) 



For Gen. Char, see letter-press to PI. eclxvii. 



-MyRISTICA FaRQUHARIANA. (Wall.) A very handsome middling sized tree, trunk erect, branches regularly verii- 

 cellate and quite at right angles, young parts minutely rufo-pubescent, leaves ooriaceous oblong with an abrupt fine acurniuation or more 

 or less gradually acuminate, generally quite rounded at the base, glabrous and rather shining above, very glaueous but quite glabrous 

 (in a"e) beneath 5 J to 12 inches long by lf-4f broad, primary veins 10-14 on each side inconspicuous above and not sunken, promi- 

 nent beneath, intermediate parallel veins very incomplete but generally more or les3 visible on the under side, petioles 4-9 lines long, 

 channelled on the upper side. Male, flowers very numerous in axillary much branched rufo-pubescent panicles, pedicels 2-3 lines long 

 6-10 together in clusters alone the branch of the pauicla with or without a short peduncle, and in the former case quite umbellate, 

 perianth shorter than the pedicel 3-4 (generally 4) cleft pubescent on the outside and inside on its upper half, antheriferous column 

 scarcely h a line long glabrous not continued up between the anthers, anthers 7-11 (generally 7-8) produced back into aflat con- 

 nective and all adnate into an oblong cone (but without any column between them) not much more than i as long as the perianth ; 

 female, flowers 6-10 on short axillary rufo-pubescent racemes scarcely longer than the petioles, pedicels short thick or almost 

 obsolete arranged along the whole of the peduncle, ovary very h dry, stigma large aemilunate deeply bifid glabrous and fleshy, fruit 

 quite globose 1-li inches iu diameter glabrous in age. Wall. eat. 6798, and Hook. §• T. Fl. Ind. p. 161. in part. 



This tree is very abundant in the dense moist forests in the plains of S. C intra, where it is called Pindee ; it also ascends the 

 S. Canara and Coorg ghats up to an elevation of 1500 or 20J0 feet, and 1 have also found it on the Tanibercherry 'ghat in the Wynad, but 

 I have not observed it further sjitth. I know nothing of its tim^er-or uses . 



Analysis. 



' 1. Branch of the male tree iu ; flower, showing the loose panicle (life size.) 



' 2, Highly magnified portion of the panicle, perianths 4-3-cleft. 



3. A male flower, perianth 4-cleft. 



4. The same open. 



' 5. Anthers shewing the very short column at the base. 



6. The same in a more advanced stage, and the anthers slightly separated to show that they have incurved points and a thin 



membranaceous connective down their inner face, and that the column is not produced up between them. 



7. Branch of female tree in' flower, showing the short axillary racemes (life size.) 



8. Portion of a raceme magnified- 

 ■ 9. A 4-cleft female flower. 



' 10. The same open. 



' 11. Ovary and 2 cleft lunate fleshy glabrous stigma. 



12. Ovary cut vertically. 



■ 13. The same cut transversely. 



14. Branch of ripe fruit, one of them burst, showing the seed and mvse or aril. (All di^yar from flowers iu spirits. 1 



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