CXVII. MYRISTICACE2E. 
Myristica.] 
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panicles axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves. Flowers rather 
large, urceolate or campanulate, pedicelled. Bracteoles persistent 
at base of perianth. Perianth 3-toothed. Androecium stalked; 
filaments in a column produced beyond anthers 12 to 30, connate. 
Stigmas connate bilobed. Fruit large oblong or ovoid; pericarp 
thick, fleshy; aril laciniate nearly to base. Species 80, India 
to Philippines, Australia and Polynesia. 
The nutmeg of commerce, M. fragrans Linn, belongs to this 
genus, introduced from Banda and Amboina in 1796, and cultivated 
as a small bushy tree in Penang and Singapore until 1866, when 
a disease destroyed the cultivation completely in Singapore and 
partly in Penang. Cultivation in Penang, however, continued 
till recently, Penang nutmegs and mace being considered the finest 
in the world. M. g natter icefolia DC. a small tree with large lanceo¬ 
late acuminate leaves and red-tomentose flowers grew in a hedge 
on Fort Canning, Singapore. It is a native of Labuan and the 
Philippines, probably introduced, and perhaps by Raffles, as it was 
within the area of his Botanic Gardens. 
Inflorescence branching. 
Perianth broad ovoid, ’25 in. long; fruit 3 to 4 in. 
long. 
Perianth ovoid to globose. 
Bracts broad; leaves lanceolate 
Bracts narrow; leaves linear to lanceolate 
Bracts small; leaves oblong-lanceolate or 
oblong. 
Male panicle sub-umbellate, 1 in. long; 
flowers *14 in. long . 
Male panicle 2 in. long; flowers '07 in. long . 
Inflorescence not branching. 
Leaves not glaucous beneath. 
Flowers urceolate oblique .... 
Flowers urceolate not oblique 
Flowers long elliptic ..... 
Leaves glaucous beneath. 
Anthers 14 to 18; fruit thinly woolly 
Anthers 10 to 14; fruit thickly woolly 
(1) M. maxima 
(2) M. Maingayi 
(3) M. gigantea 
(4) M. iners 
(5) M. malaccensis 
( 6 ) M. elliptica 
(7) M. suavis 
(8) M. cinnamomea 
( 9 ) M. crassa 
(10) M. Lowiana 
(1) M. maxima Ward. Monog . Myrist. 385; Gamble, l.c. 228. 
M. bracteata King, Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. iii. 286, t. 167 (not of 
C. DeCandolle ). 
Tree about 50 to 70 ft. tall, 1-5 to 2 ft. through. Leaves 
coriaceous oblong, shortly abrupt-acuminate, base rounded, glaucous 
beneath; midrib scurfy when young; nerves 20 to 30 pairs, raised 
beneath; 12 in. long, 4-5 in. wide; petioles thick, grooved, -sin. 
long. Male flowers in panicles up to 7 in. long; branches distant, 
1-5 in. long (lower ones). Flowers fascicled, *25 in. long, on slender 
pedicels *3 in. long, scurfy. Perianth urceolate, scaly tomentose; 
teeth broad, triangular 3. Fruit ellipsoid, red-pubescent, 3 to 
