¿•IT) THE SPECIES OP MIRISTICA
nerves prominent; length 6 to 9 in., breadth 2-2.5 to 3 in.; petiole -5 to 65 in.
Male flowers in compound many-flowered umbels from short, woody, axillary tubcrdes;
buds sub-globose, -15 in. in diam., minutely pubescent or sub-glabrous externally, as aré
the pedicels; pedicels -35 in. long, the bracteole above the middle; lobes of perianth
broadly ovate, sub-acute, glabrous and ridged inside; staminal disa sub-triangular,
sub-convex; anthers 13 to 17, on short filaments, horizontal; stalk very short, stout!
Female floivers unknown. Fruit oblong-ovoid or ovoid, 1 to 1-75 in. long when ripe, in
pairs, axillary, pedicellate, cinereous, glabrescent; pedicel -25 in. long; arillus entire,
thin, tough, completely enveloping the oblong-ovoid or ovoid seed.
Perak: at elevations up to 500 f e e t—E i n c / ' s CoUectw.
This has loaves rather like M. Sfianogheana, Miq., but narrower, with fewer nerves
and paler on the under surface.
PLATE 151. Myristica "Wrayi, King. 1, Branch witli male flowers; 2, ripe fruit;
3, section of lipe fniit; 4, seed covered by its arillus—o/»«¡'wm^ sise; 5, male flower;
6, staminal column and disc with anthers—fwiar^tfrf.
48. MYRISTICA ATTENVATA. Wall. Cat. 6791. A tall tree; youngest branches and
inflorescence covered with golden or tawny, furfuraceous, deciduous tomentum;
ultimately glabrous and striate; slender. Leaves thinly coriaceous, flucuulent-pubescent only
when young, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, rarely elliptic, acuto or acuminate;
the base cuneatc, sometimes rounded, often unequal; upper surface shining, glabrous;
the lower pale, glaucous; lateral nerves 12 to 18 pairs, prominent, spreading; length
5 to 8 in., breadth 1-75 to 2-75 in.; petiole -5 in. or under. Mde flowers -3 in. in
diam., obovate-globose, in 3 to 6-fiowered, shortly peduncled, axillary umbela; pedicels
•2 to -4 in. long, slender, bracteoiate above the middle; perianth deeply divided into
3 triangular, fleshy, concave segments, rufous-lanose externally, glabrous and striate
within; staminal disc sub-concave, glabrous; anthers about 13, on short filaments, ovate,
opening downwards; stalk of the disc cylindric, about as long as the perianth tube.
Female flowers in umbels like ttie males, but fewer-flowered, sub-sessile or sessile, the
bract close to the base of the perianth; perianth cylindric or narrowly ovoid, slightly
gibbous at the base, 3-toothed, otherwise as in the male; ovary sessile, ovoid, densely
tomentoso; the style short, fleshy, glabrous, expanding above into tiie bi-lobed fleshy
stigma, the lobes somewhat corrugated internally. Fruit 1 to 1-5 in. long, ellipsoid
or sub-obovoid, abruptly and shortly pointed, densely rusty furfuraceous-tomentose, but
ultimately sub-glabrous; arillus thin, uniform, entire, completely enveloping the narrowly
ovoid seed. Uook, fil. ^ Thorns. Flora Ind., 157; A. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 205; Hook,
fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 110; Dalz. ^ Glhs. Fl. Bomlay, 4. M. corticosa, Bedd. FL Sylv.,
t. 271 (not of Lour., nor of E. /. éf Th.) M. amygdalina, Grah. Cat. Bonib. Plants
175 {not of Wall.)
Moist forests of the Western Gháts; from South Ganara to South Travancore, at
elevations of from 1,000 to 3,000 feet.
PLATE 152. Myristica attenuata, Wall. 1 & 2, twigs with female flower and
young fruits; 3 to 6, female flowers; 6, ovary, style, and stigma; 7, young fruit;
8, ripe fruit; 9, piece of twig with male flowers; 10, male flower; 11, staminal disc.
(Ms. 4, 5, 6, 10 ^ 11 are enlarged; the others are of natural size. Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7
10 11 are copied from Bedd. Fl. Sylv., ¿.271.) ' '
OP BKITISH IJÍDIA. 317
49. MYRISTICA SCOETECHINII, n. sp. King. A tree 40 to 60 feet high; young
branches rather stout, covered at first with minute scurfy tomentura, afterwards rather
pale brown and glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, alternate
towards the acute apex, the base rouuded and emarginate or minutely cordate, or subcuneatc;
upper surface sliining, glabrous; lower, when young, densely covered with
very minute, stellate or tawny deciduous tomentum; when- adult sub-glabrous and
rather pale; main nerves from 18 to 28 pairs, spreading, prominent below; length
7 to 12 in., breadth 1-75 to 2'5 in.; petiole -3 to -o in., rusty-tomentose when young.
Male flowers in 4 to 10-flowered umbels from usually short, woody, axillary tubercles;
pedicels slender, -35 to -6 in. long; the minute bracteole about tho middle,
pedicel thinner above the bracteole; buds -2 iu. in diam., depressed-globular, obtusely
3-angled; perianth cleft nearly to its base, the teeth broad, triangular, minutely stellatetomentose
outside as are the pedicels, glabrous and striate within, very concave;
staminal disc small, flat, 3.angled, glabrous; anthers 10 to 18, radiating horizontally,
the filaments distinct, short; stalk of the disc cylindric, glabrous, ridged, thickened
in its upper part. Female flowers unknown. Fruit 1 in. or more long when ripe, ovoidglobose,
blunt, slightly ridged at the suture and slightly gibbous at the base on one
side, pedicelled; when young densely and minutely rufous-tomentose, afterwards subglabrescent;
pericarp thin; arillus tliin, red, closely embracing the seed, irregularly
lobed at the apex; seed ovoid-globose. M. laurina, Bl, TAK, Borneensis, Miq. Ann. Mas.
Lxigd. Bat. ii. 51.
A species not unlike M. intermedia, BI.; but at once distinguished by its flat (not
inammillate) disc. It also resembles M. furfuraeea, but its ripe fruit is more glabrescent,
more globulai- and smaller, and the rctiuulations of its leaves are much more minute.
P e r a k : common at elevations from 500 to 1,500 feet, Seortechini, Wray, King's
Collector. Malacca, Derry. Distrib.—Borneo.
PLATE 153. Myristica Scortechinii, King. 1, Branch with male flowers; 2, ripe
f r u i t ; 3, apex of seed showing the lobed arillus; 4, base of cordate leaves—o/ natural
she; 5 & 6, male flowers; 6, staminal disc and anthers; 7, ovMj—enlarged.
50. MYRISTICA INTERMEDIA, Blume Rumph. i. 137. A tree 40 to 70 feet high; branches
slender, the youngest thinly covered with minute, scurfy, rufous tomentum, ultimately
dark-coloured and glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate,
tapeiiug but little towards the acute or shortly acuminate apex, or towards the cuneate
(rarely rounded or sub-cordate) base; upper surface shining; lower dull, pale; lateral
nerves 12 to 22 pairs, spreading, rather prominent on both surfaces; length 5 to 12 in.,
breadth -8 to 3 in.; petiole -5 in., deciduously tomentose, like the young branches. Male
flowers from short, rounded, woody tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves, in
umbels of 6 or 8; pedicels and outer surface of perianth minutely rufous-tomentose, subflocculent;
bructeole small, above tho middle of the -4 in, long pedicel; the buds
sub-globose, slightly pointed; penanth when expanded -25 to 3 in. in diam.; its segments
tx-iangular-ovate, sub-acute, glabrous and striate inside. Staminal disc very convex
(mammillate); anthers 12 to 15, sessile, radiating, their dehiscence downwards; stalk of
disc very short, thickened towards the apex. Female flowers in axillary umbels like the
males, but sessile and the bracteole close to tho base of tho flower; buds ovoid; lobes
of perianth ovate, acute; ovary sessile, ovoid, minutely rufous-tomentose; stigma sessile,
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