210 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
ovoid-globose, rough, warted, glabrescent, 6—8 cm. long and nearly 
5 cm. in diam.; peduncle stout, woody, 10—12 mm. long; pericarp 
succulent, 12—18 mm. thick. MWyristica superba, Hook.f. and Th. Fl. 
Ind. 162; A. DC. in Prodr. xiv. 1. 194; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 62; 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 105; King Ann. Cale. IIT. 298 tt. 124 dzs, 
125 bis. 
PENANG: Phillips!; at Waterfall, Curtis 2966!. PERAK: Scorte- 
chini!; near Gunong Batu Puteh at 450—600 m. alt., King ’s Collector 
8624!. SreLnancor: at Ulu Selangor, Goodenough 10526!. Mawacca: 
Hervey!; at Jasin, Holmberg 2100!. Stycarore: at Sungei Ben- 
kang, Ridley 216! . 
4, HorsFIELDIA FLOccULosA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 297 (1897). 
A handsome tree reaching 12—20 m. in height and 25—50 cm. in 
diam. of stem; branches spreading; branchlets stout, when young 
densely clothed with thick felted bright rufous tomentum, when old 
subglabrous, striate, rough and cinereous. Leaves large, coriaceous ; 
oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, 
rounded or slightly cuneate at base; upper surface hispid puberu- 
lous, the midrib and nerves flocculent-tomentose when young ulti- 
mately glabrous, lower densely covered with pale cinnamomeous stel- 
late flocculent tomentum; margins revolute when dry; 30—45 cm. 
long, 10—18cm. broad; midrib very stout; main nerves 15—20 pairs, 
impressed on the upper, boldly prominent on the lower surface, 
rather straight at first but inter-arching near the margin; transverse 
nervules faint, slightly impressed on the upper surface; reticulation 
obscure; petiole 1—2 cm. long, very stout, tomentose. Flowers: 3 
in robust spreading many-flowered panicles from the axils of fallen 
leaves, 15—20 cm. long, 8—10 cm. broad; rhachises and peduncles 
flocculently cinnamomeous-tomentose; cymules rather loose; pedi- 
cels slender, clavate, 3—4 mm. long; perianth obovoid, thin, glab- 
rous, 3mm. long, teeth 3—4, shallow, acute; androecium subsessile, 
obovoid, truncate at apex, 2mm. high; anthers about 10, confluent 
and incurved at top: 2 not known. Fruit unknown. Myristica 
flocculosa, King Ann. Calc. IIT. 302, t. 131. 
Perak: in dense forest near Ulu Kerling at 120—180 m. alt.; 
King’s Collector 8618! . 
5. HORSFIELDIA FULVA, Wark. Monog. Myrist. 297 (1897). A 
tree, reaching 12—15 m. in height; branchlets rather stout, pale 
brown, slightly rough, scurfy, rufous-puberulous when -young.. 
