. The natural history of plants. Botany. MYBISTIOAOB^. 495 MyriHica {Knema) corticosa. are nearly free instead of united. In Compsonevrd' there are six, erect and verticillate. In Irya," the central part of the androceum is pear-shaped, with a concave summit surrounded by a circle of short anthers, attached around its outer edge. In the male flowers of M. corticosa^ (figs. 307, 308), for- merly made the type of a genus Knema* the perianth leaves are thick, and bevelled into a wedge shape internally; and the andro- ceum, very short in proportion, forms a little column dilated above into a
. The natural history of plants. Botany. MYBISTIOAOB^. 495 MyriHica {Knema) corticosa. are nearly free instead of united. In Compsonevrd' there are six, erect and verticillate. In Irya," the central part of the androceum is pear-shaped, with a concave summit surrounded by a circle of short anthers, attached around its outer edge. In the male flowers of M. corticosa^ (figs. 307, 308), for- merly made the type of a genus Knema* the perianth leaves are thick, and bevelled into a wedge shape internally; and the andro- ceum, very short in proportion, forms a little column dilated above into a prominent, flattened or concave head. From the edge of this head diverge short rays, each bearing a short oval or rounded anther, whose two cells open by longitudinal slits looking downwards and outwards. Finally in Fyrrhosa^ also raised to generic rank by some, the androceum consists of a little ovoid or obovoid elongated mass, the whole of whose surface is divided into a variable number of divisions, each of which is a linear anther, sometimes of extreme delicacy. Thus constituted* the genus Myristica contains about eighty species," aU arborescent or frutescent, with alternate, often distichous penniveined leaves. All have axillary or supra-axillary inflores- cences, sometimes simple sometimes much ramified and formed, especially in the male flowers, of a very large number of Fia. 307. Male flower (i). FiO. 308. Androceum (Y')- ' A. DC, Proij-., 199 (sect. vi.). ' HooE. p. & Thoms., M. Ind., i, 159.âBl., SampMa, i. 190 (Fi/rrhosa).âA. Dâ¬;, Frodr., 202 (sect. xi.). ' Hook. y. & Thoms., loc. cit., 158.âA. DC, Prodr., n. 70.âM. globularis Lamk., in Mem. Ac. Sc. Far. (1788), 162. â M. glcmca Bl,., Fijdr., 576.âif. sumatrana Bi., Sumphia, i. 187. â M. cmgustifolia EoXB., Fl. Ind., iii. 847.âM. glaucescens Hook. p. & Thoms., loc. eit,, 157. â Knema corticosa LoFE., Fl. Co- cJimch., 14:2. â K. glaucescens Jack., Mai. Misc.; in HooJc. Convp. Ba
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