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THE SPECIES OF Mi'EISTICi
broad, with 6 to 8 short, sub-erect, narrow lobes. F,-iiit usually solitary, rarely in
clusters of 9 or 8, 1-25 to 1-7Ó iu., ellipsoid, blunt, grooved on one side, covered
with a thin layer of minute scurfy rufous tomentum; arillus thin, entire, or slightly
laciniate towards tho apex, completely enveloping the elongate sub-rugoso seed. Hook,
fit Sr T/mrn. Fl. Ind. 158; Rook. fil. FL Br. Ind. v. 112; A. DC. w Prod. xiv. 1, 206;
Jliq. Fl. Ind. Bal. i. pt. 2, 70. ? M. corticosa, E. f . ^ T., VAR. decipiens, Ann.
Miis. Liujd. Bat. ii. 51.
Malacca; Griffith {Kew Dhtrih.) é359 (with diseased male flowers); Maingay 1281;
Cantky. Penang, Curtis. Singapore; Canihy^ LoU, Ridley. Perak; Scortechini, Kiny's
Collector, Wray. Penang, Curtis.
The fruits of this are always, and the leaves are usually, larger than those of
M. (¡lauca, Bl. It is, however, at once distinguished from that and froni every other Kncma
in those provinces, except M. Cantlcyi, by the curious mammillate staminal disc.
PLATE 154. Myristica intermedia, Blum. 1, Branch with female flowers and ripe
fruit; 2, twig with male flowers; 3, section of fruit showing arillus covering seed
(sliglitly laciaiate towards apes)—o/ natural size; 4, male flower; 5, staminal column
and disc with anthers; 6, female flower; 7, ovary—enlarged,
51. MYRIS-IICA FUEFURICEA, Ilook. fil. ^ Tkoms. Fl. Ind. 159. A tree 40 to 60 feet
high; branchlets stout, the bark smooth, black and much cracked when old ; when very
young densely covered by a thick layer of scurfy, tawny or rusty tomentum. Leaves
coriaceous, glabrous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, slightly narrowed
to the cordate slightly unequal base; upper surface sliining ; lower dull, pale, purplish
when dry; lateral nerves 20 to 28 pairs, prominent beneath, spreading; length 10 to 20
in., breadth 1-75 to 4-5 in.; petiole stout, rusty-tomentóse when young, ultimately
glabrous, -4 in. long. Male flowers in 6 to 8-flowered umbels, rising from short
woody tubcrcles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves; pedicels -3 to -4 in. long,
flocculent rusty-tomentose, as is the outer surface of the flower, the braeteolo about the
middle of the pedicel which is thinner above than below its insertion; buds obtusely
3-comered, flat-topped, -15 in. in diam.; perianth deeply divided into 3 blunt, triangular
teeth, glabrous and striate inside. Staminal dise . rotund, obscurely 3-angled, concave,
glabrous; anthers about 12, radiating, curving upwards, sub-sessile; stalk of disc glabrous,
cylindric, thickened upwards, prominently ridged. Female flowers -3 in. long, in umbels
like those of the malo, but fewer-flowered, sessile, and the bracteole at the base of the
perianth; bud ovoid-globose; segments of perianth ovate, sub-acute; ovary sessile, globose,
densely rufous-tomentose; stigma sessile, discoid, with many linear lobes, glabrous,
/'/•iííí sub-globose at first and densely tomentose; when ripe ovoid or ellipsoid, blunt, 1 to
1-25 in. long, the perianth sub-accrescent and persistent at its base, rufous-tomentose;
pericarp thick; arillus thin, completely enveloping the whole of the seed, except the
extreme apex, where it is divided into 5 or 6 narrow lobes. Book. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v.
1T2; A. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 206; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 70. Knema glaucescens,
TFall. Cat. 6810 {not of Jack).
Penang, Curtis No. 1459. Perak, King's Collector. Malacca; Griffith No. 434G
{Kew Disirih.), Maingay {Kew Distrib. Nos. 1287 & 1288).
Resembling 3Í. intermedia in many points, but with larger, cordate leaves, and a
concave, not mammillate, glabrous staminal disc.
OP BRITISH l>'DrA.
VAR. major, King. Fruit narrowly ovoid, pointed ; the perianth not subaccrescent
or persistent, rufous-tomentoso at first, partially glabrous
when ripe, 1-5 to 2-5 in. long.
Pcrak ; King's Collector Nos. 5600, 5720, 6059, 7551, 10349. Penang ; Curtis
Nos. 1459, 2456.
The leaves of this variety are usually rather larger than tliose of the typical form,
and the fruit is always much larger. It might be better to treat this variety as a distinct
species, for the perianth of the female is neither sub-accrescont nor persistent at tho base
of the fruit.
PLATE 155. Myristica furfuracea, Bool. fil. ^ Thorns. 1, Branch with male flowers;
2, twig with female flowers; 3, duster of ripe fruit; 4, seed covered by arillus; 5, seed
with arillus removed; 6, ripe fruit of VAR. major—of natural sise; 7, male flower;
8, andrcecium; 9, female flower; 10. oy&vj—enlarged.
52. MYRISTICA LAUEIKA, Blume Rumph. i. 189, t. 61. A tree 40 to 60 feet high;
young branches rather stout, pale brown, faintly striate; the youngest harshly rufous-
Tomentose. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly acuminate cr
acute, slightly narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate slightly unequal base; upper
surface shining, glabrous; lower covered, especially on the nerves, with minute, stellate,
loose, rusty hairs; main nerves 12 to 18 pairs, spreading; length 4 to 9 in., breadth
1-5 to 2'5 in.; petiole '25 to -35 in., rufous-tomentose. Male flowers in dense,
axillary, many-flowered umbels; pedicels -2 in. long, the bracteole above the middle
or sub-sessile ; buds -1 in. in diam., ovoid or slightly obovoid, densely shaggy, nifoustomentose;
teeth of perianth ovate, concave, glabrous and striate inside; staminal disc
small, glabrous, concave, bearing 7 to 9 erect, sessile, extrorse anthers : stalk glabrous,
cylindric, thickened towards the apex, striate. Female flowers Hke the male, but
always sessile, and the rachis woody and elongating; ovary sessile, depressed-globose,
densely rufous-tomentose; style 0 or very short; stigma as long as the ovary with 2
deep, cbovate, laterally compressed, sub-lobulate lobes. Fruit '75 to 1 in., rarely 1-25
in. long when ripe; ovoid or ellipsoid, often obovoid, blunt, sub-sessile or shortly pedicellate,
densely covered with coarse rufous tomentum; arillus thin, red, entire, completely
enveloping the ellipsoid seed. A. DO. in Prod. xiv. 1, 20fi; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 70;
Ami. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 51 ; Book. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 112 (in part). M. tomentosa,
Blame (not of Thmlg.) Bijdr. 577.
Malacca; Griffith, Ridley. Singapore; Ridley, King. Perak; Scortcchini, King's Collector,
Distrib.—Java {Zoll. Cat. 996), Sumatra.
The best marks of this species are the small staminal disc with only 6 to 8 stamens
which are erect or sub-erect, not horizontal; the loose, stellate hairs of its young
parts and of the under sm-faces of the leaves. Blame's otherwise excellent figure shows
ilie fruit in only a young state, and the leaves have attenuate bases, much the more
common form of leaf-base being rounded and cordate.
PLATU 156. Myristica laurina, Blume. 1, Branch with male flowers; 2, part of
branch which has borne female flowers; 3, branch with nearly ripe fruit; 4, a ripe fruit;
5, vertical section through young fruit to show seed; 6, seed covered by its arillus—o/
natural size; 7, male flower open and seen from above; 8, the same unopened with its
bracteole; 9, audriccium ; 10, female flower; 11, ovary, style, and stigma—enlarged.