THE SPECIES OF MYEISTICA
pi-ominont beneath, spreading; length -6 to 1 in., breadth 1-5 to 2-5 in. ; petioles
•25 to -5 in., slender. Hale flowers on short, slender, S to 12-flowered axillary
tuberclos, doprcased-obovoid, not angled, •! in. in diani., the pedicels from -2 to in.
long, bracteole minute; perianth divided hulf-way down into 3 broad, triangular, concave,
fleshy teeth, minutoly cincreous-tomeiitosc outside, as are the pedicels, glabrous and striate
i n t e r n a l l y ; stalk of staminal disc very short, the disc itself triangular, almost fiat; anthers
about 16 or 18 with short filaments, dehiscing downwards. Female floioers unknown.
Fruit axillary, solitary or in pairs, rarely in clusters of 3, podicellate, ellipsoid, '5 to
•6 in. long, wheu young densely aud coarsely stellate rufous-tomentoso, when old scantily
tomentose ; pedicel very slender, -3 to -4 in. long ; pericarp thinly coriaccious ; ai-illus
thin, uniform, complettly enveloping the seed, iaoiniate at the very apex ; seed ovoid,
smooth. A. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 20.5. JI. longifolia, WaU., vae. erratica, Jlook. fil. Fl.
Br. Ind. t. 110. M. corticosa, Hook. fil. Thorn. Fl. Ind. 156 {in pari). ? M. linifolia
lioxh. FL Ind. iii. S47.
T h i s is closely allied to M. longifolia, Wall. It is, however, smaller than that spocies
i n all its parts, the leaves alone excepted, and these are sometimes as large as in the
smaller forms of M. longifolia. Their bases, however, in this are either cuneate or rounded •
t h e y are never cordate. The fruits of this are on thiri pedicels; tliey are never sessile
and they are much smaller than those of longifolia, being, even when quite ripe, never
more than -5 to -6 in. in length. Moreover, the anthers of this have short filaments,
whereas those of M. longifolia are sessile, und the stalk of the staminal disc is in this
much shorter.
S i k k i m : at 3,000 to 5,000 feet, King. Assam; Griffiih, Eew Didrih. No. 4347.
Khasia, G. Mann. Cachar, Daleswari Forest, G. Mann.
P l a t k 162. Jlyristica erratica, Hook. fil. Thorns. 1, Branch with male flowers;
2, branch with fruit; 3, section of fruit—o/ natural size ; 4, male flower; o, andrcecium
seen from the side ; 6, the same soon from above—«;
59, Mykistica longifolia. Wall. Cat. 6M01. A tree from 30 to 60 feet high;
y o u n g branches slender, the youngest parts at iirst covered with rusty, scurfy, substellate,
deciduous tomentum ; afterwurds glabrous, striate and rather pule. Leaves coriaceous,
from linear-oblong to oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, conspicuously narrowed to
b o t h ends; the apex acute or sub-acute; the base slightly cordate or emarginate, or
rounded, sometimes slightly unequal; both surfaces glabrous, the lower sub-glaucous; main
nerves 25 to 35 pairs, prominent, spreading; length 10 to 18 in., breadth 3 to 5 in.;
p e t i o l e '5 to '75 in., stout, deciduously tomentose like the young branches. Male flowers
o u short, 4 to 6-flowerec], axillary tubercles, pyriform or depressed-obovoid, bluntly 3-angIed,
about -25 in. in diam. ; the pcdicels from -25 to -0 in. long, with a single minute bract;
perianth divided about half-way down into 3 broad, triangular, fleshy, concave teeth,
r u s t y stellate-tomentose outside, as are the pcdicels, glabrous and striate inside; stalk of
staminal disc long, cylindric, slightly thiekeued above, the disc itself orbicular, obscurely
3-angled, sub-concave, bearing on its edge about 14 to 18 sessile, sub-horizontal, 2-celIed,
extrorse anthers. Female flowers unknown. Fruit axillary, solitary or in clusters of 2 to 3,
sessile, ellipsoid or ovoid, 1 to 1'5 in. long, blunt, densely covered with coarse, sliort,
stellate, rufous tomentum; never glabrous; arillus thin, uniform, laciniate near the apex,
completely enveloping the smooth ovoid seed. M. longifolia, A. DC. in Prod. xiv. 1, 204.
OF BRITISH INDIA. 325
M. longifolia (in part), Ilooh fil. ^ Thorns. Flor. Br. Ind. 156; Kurs For. Flor. Burm. ii.
2 8 3 ; Mi'j. Fl. Ind: Bat. i, pt. 2, p. 69.
Hot valleys in the Eastern Himalaya, ánd in the Assam and Chittagong HiU
Ranges; Naga and Khasia Hills; Burmah.
T h e r e are in the Calcutta Herbarium imperfect specimens from Assam of what may
b e a new species of 3Iyristv:a, closely allied to longifolia. One of these {No. 4345,
Herb. Griffith, and attributed to Burmah) has leaves often 2 feet long with cuneate
base.s and with sub-sessile male flowers.
pLATB 164. Myristica longifolia. Wall 1, Branch with male flowers; 2, male
flower; 3, the same dissected—o/watoraí size; 4 & 5, andrcccium—CB^aív/cf?.
P l a t k 166. Myristica longifolia. Wall. 1, Branch witli ripe fruit; 2, fascicle of
r i p e fruit; 3, ripe fruit in section showing seed; "4, seed covered by arillus—all of
natural size.
60. Myristica Clarkeasa, n. fp. King. A tree CO to SO feet high ; youngest branches
densely furfuraceous, rusty-tomentóse, soon becoming glabrous and dark-coloured, the
older cinereous. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous except the petioles, oblong to elliptic-oblong,
sometimes oblanceolate, sub-acuminate, slightly narrowed in the lower third to the
rounded, emarginate or slightly cordate base; upper surface shining, the lower dull,
sub-glaucous; main nerves 18 to 25 pairs, spreading, rather prominent, some of them
bifm-cating; length 10 to 17 in., breadth 1'75 to 4 in.; petiole '4 to "7 in., rusty-tomento.se
a t first, afterwards glabrons. 3Iale floioers in crowded clusters of from 8 to 16 from
tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves; pedicellate, clavate, -25 in. long,
covered like the pedicels with dense, soft, rufous tomentum; pedicels -25 to -.35 in. long,
t h e bracteole minute and near the base; fcrhmih coriaceous, divided into 3 rather short
broad, deep, triangular, concave teeth, vertically striate internally; stalk of staminal disc
a s long as the tube of the perianth, cylindric, slightly thickened upwards, striate,
glabrous; the disc orbicular, concave, glabrous; anthers about 13, ovate, rather short, at
first erect., ultimately horizontal, dehiscing downwards. Female flowers unknown. Fruit
n a r r o w l y ellipsoid, pointed at both ends, rather under 1"5 in. long and about '75 in. in
diam., at first rufous-tomeutose, ultimately quite glabrous; pericarp thin, coriaceous;
arillus thin, entire, covering the whole of the seed, slightly laciniate and conduplicate
a t the apex; seed ellipsoid, smooth.
C h i t t a g o n g : Collectors of Botanic Garden, Calcutta, Nos. 97, 412, 496 & 605.
Assam, Peal No. 90.
A species allied to M. longifolia, Wall., but with leaves less glaucous beneath;
more clavate, more numerous male flowers; and with glabrous, narrowly ellipsoid fruit,
p o i n t e d at both ends. '
P l a t e 165. Myristica Clarkeana, King. 1, Branch with male flowers; 2, ripe fruit;
3, arillus covering seed; 4, pericarp opened up—o/ natural size; o, male flower;
6, staminal column and disc with znthQiia—enlarged.
61. Mvristica HooKiiRiANA, Wall. Cat. 6802^1. A tree 50 to 80 feet high; young"**"
branches stout, the youngest parts (as well as the pedicels, flowers, and ripe fruit)
densely covered with tawny or rufous, soft, flocculent wool. Leaves coriaceous, oblonglanceolate
or oblong-oWanceolate, apex obtuse or acute, edges wavy, narrowed to the subacute,
sometimes minutely cordate, base; both surfaces glabrous when adult, but occasionally
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