THE SPECIES OF MmSTICA
Tmale racemes less than -75 in. long ; floiaers globose, coriaceous, glabrous; the teeth short,
blunt, gaping; ovar^ sessile, globose, glabrous, grooved; stigma slightly oblique, small,
grooved. Fruit solitary or in short racemes of 2 to 4, ellipsoid ; length (Avlien young) -ô in.,
pedicel -2 in., stout ; pericarp leathery, glabrous, thick ; arillus thin, quite entire, and
completely enveloping the smooth oval seed.
Pcrak: at elevations from 600 to 800 feet, King's Collector No. 10917; Scortcchini
No. 8(32. S. Ujong, Cantley No. 1798.
Allied to 3L polyspkerula, Hook, fil., but with smaller, quite glabrous leaves, with fewer,
I'ainter nerves, n different ovary, ami ellipsoid fruit.
PLATE U-5. Myristiea Ridleyatia, King. 1, Branch wiih male flowers ; 2, branch
with female flowers ; 3 & 4, young fruit ; 5, arillus covering seed—of natural size ;
G, androecium; 7, ovary—enlarged.
42. MYRISTICA POLYSPHEUUIA, Jlook.Jl. If I. Br. Ind. v. 108. A tree 40 to 50 feet
high; young shoots rather slender, at first covered with rusty scurf, ultimately glabrous
and striate. Leaves narrowly oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the edge
slightly revolt ite when dry; the base cuneate, rarely rounded ; upper surface pale greenishbrown
when dry, glabrous, shining ; the lower dark brown, dull, glabrous, except the midrib
which in young leaves is scurfy-puberulous ; main nerves 11 to 13 pairs, thin but sharp
and bold on both surfaces, spreading, the ends interaruhing -1 in, from the edge;
length 3-5 to 6 in., breadth l-o to 2 25 in.; petiole -35 to -5 in. Male panicles ixom
the axils of leaves and of fallen leaves, much-branched, spreading, densely rustytoment.
ose, 2 to 4 in. long and l-o to 3 in. broad; Jlowers clustered towards the ends
of the braiichlets,-05 ill. in diam., depressed-globose, glabrous; ^emnii/i black when dry,
leathery, with 3 or 4 triangular acute teeth, sometimes only 2-valved ; pedicels about
as long as the flower; a7idrosnum sessile, transversely elongate or slightly 3 or 4-
coraered, according to the number of periunth segments; anthers 9 to 12, ovate,
the cells divergent, and the sides and apices free. . Female punides only about 1-5 in.
long, stout, few-flowered; perianth ovoid, blunt, very thick, glabrous, with 3 subacute,
concave teeth ; ovary sessile, compressed, ovoid, glabrous ; stigma grooved, subbi
lobed. Fruif- in short raceuies o£ 2 or 3, pedunculate, ovoid, narrowly ridged on
one side, glabrous, about -75 in. long and -5 in. in diam.; peduncles '25 to -5 in.
long ; pericarp leathery, splitting into 2 valves when ripe ; arillus rather fleshy, entire,
completely covering the broadly ovoid, smooth, shining seed. M. globularia, EooJc. fil.
Thorn?, {not of Blame) Fl. Jnd. 160 ; A.. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 202 {in part). M.
îlorsficldia, Bl. ? Wall. Cat. in part (not of Blume).
Malacca; Griffith (Keio Dislrih.) No. 43.51,. Cantley. Singapore, Ridley. Perak;
King's Colleclor, Scoriechini, Wray, at low elevations ; common.
The leaves of this when dry are brittle, and have an olivaceous tint on the upper
surface, the lower being of a bronze-like brown. It much resembles the only authentic
specimen which I have seen ( tî only) of M. suhylobosa, Miq.
PLii'E 146. Myristica polyspherula, ¿fooA. 1, Branch with male flowers; 2, ripe
fruit ; 3, section of ripe fruit ; 4, arillus covering the seed—of natural size ; 5, male
flower ; 6, andrcecium ; 7, female flower ; S, ovai-y—enlarged.
43. MYUISTICA COLLETTIANA, n. sp. King. A tree 30 to 70 feet high; young branches
brown, faintly lenticellate, striate, glabrous when old, scurfy rusty-pubescent when young.
OF BRITISH INDIA.
Leaves elliptic-oblong, acute or. acuminate, narrowed in the lower third to the acute base,
the edges slightly recurved; upper surface pale, dull, olivaceous brown when dry, glabrou.5;
the lower reddish-brown, glabrous, except the deciduously pubescent midrib; maiu
nerves 13 to 17 pairs, prominent on both surfaces, but especially on the lower, spreading
and forming double intermarginal arches; length 6 to 8 in,, breadth 2 to 3 in. ;
petiole -35 to -5 in., stout. 3file panicles axillary, lax, spreading, 2-5 to 3-5 in. long
and about 1*5 in. broad; the axis and branches slightly scurfy-pubescent (never tomentoso),
the pedicels and flowers quite glabrous ; buds depressed-globose or sometimes obovoid, less
than "05 in. in diam., the pedicels longer; perianth leathery, pale, quite glabrous on
both surfaces, with 3 acute triangular teeth; andracium, transversely ovoid, compressed or
3-angled, the disc small, concave; anthers about 10, erect, rather short, narrow, attached
by their bases only, their sides and apices quite free, the connectives sometimes produced
into a short appendage at the apex. Female panicles about 1 in. long, sub-glabrous, slightly
scurfy when very young; pedicels r-alher thick, recurved; flowers sub-globulai-, -05 in.
in diam.; the perianth fleshy, glabrous; shortly 3-toothed; ovary depressed-globular,
glabrous; stigma small, oblique. Fruit solitary or in racemes of 2 or 3, broadly ovoid,
glabrous; 1-25 to I'o in. long and 1 to -25 in. broad; pericarp leathery, -20 in. thick,
splitting when ripe into 3 or 4 valves; arillus rather thick, entire, covering the whole of the
smooth globose seed. M. glabra, Blume, VAK. Sumatrana, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 49.
Malacca; Maingay {Kem Bislrih.) No. 1286, Cantley. Perak; Kingh Colleetm- Nos. 3620,
3899, fi672, 6737.
This is closely allied to M. polyspherula, Hook. fil. from which, however, it differs
in its nearly glabrous panicles and very much larger fruit. 1 have dedicated this
species to that distinguished soldier and botanist Brigadier-General H. Collett, c.B.,
who has recently done so much to increase our knowledge of the Flora of Upper
Burmah.
PLATE 147. Myristica Collettiana, King. 1, Branch with panicles of male flowers;
2 & 3, fruits; 4, seed covered by arillus—o/ natural sise; 5, male flower; 6,
andrcecium—«j^aíyorf.
Sect. 7.—KNEMA {Bkme, Hook, ftl., é A. DC.) Male fioimrs pedicclled, in
clusters of from 3 to 15, from axillary tubercles, each pedicel with a persistent
bracteole about the middle (close to the peviantli in M. Cantleyi and M.
obhngifoKa). Staminal column usually stalked, peltate, discoid, concave, fiat or
convex ; the anthers ovate, usually sessile, attached by their bases to its edge,
otherwise free, rarely with filaments, radiating, more or less horizontal and
dehiscing downwards, or sub-erect and extrorse.
44. MTEISTICA OBLONGIFOLIA, n. sp. King. A shrub, or small tree 30 to 40 feet high;
young branches slender, at first minutely scurfily rufous-tomentosé; afterwards subglabrous,
the bark pale brown. Leaves thickly membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblauceolate
or oblong, rarely elliptic, apex a cuto or shortly acuminatc, very gradually
narrowed to the cordate or emarginate base; upper surface glabrous, shining; lower
pale, dull; when young with much loose stellate mfous hair, when adult sub-glabrous_,
the midrib pi-ominent below, as arc the 20 to 28 pairs of spreading nerves, which ÏÏÏM