212 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
ate and often unequal at base; upper surface bullately reticulate, 
scabrid from numerous short stiff branching hairs, glabrescent when 
old, lower surface densely and uniformly covered with bright reddish- 
brown stellate tomentum; margins slightly revolute when dry; 25— 
40 cm. long, 10—20 cm. broad; midrib stout, rather broad and 
strong, densely tomentose beneath ; main nerves 16—19 pairs, spread- 
ing and arching within the margin, impressed on the upper, prom- 
inent on the lower surface; tranverse nervules very prominent, im- 
pressed above, raised beneath and joined by an irregular prominent 
reticulation; petiole 2.5—6 mm. long, stout. Flowers: 3 in branch- 
ing many-flowered panicles 18—25 cm. long, 6—8 em. broad, from the 
axils of leaves or of fallen leaves; rhachis and branches densely pale 
rufous-lanate; cymules dense; pedicels very short, 1 mm. long; 
perianth globose, 1—2 mm. in diam., glabrous, black-dotted, teeth 
o—4 triangular; andrcecium sessile, turbinate, depressed, 155 mm. 
in diam., 1 mm. high; anthers about 13—15, much incurved at the 
apex: 9 not known. Fruit unknown. Myrisiica grandis, Hook. f. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii, 157 (1860). WM. rubiginosa, King Ann. 
Calc. III. 302, t. 130. 
SINGAPORE: in dense forest, King’s Collector 1233!; in garden 
jungle, Ridley 4132!—Distris. Borneo. 
7. HORSFIELDIA TOMENTOSA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 302 (1897). 
A tree, reaching 9—18 m. or more in height and about 45 cm. in diam. 
of stem; branches spreading; branchlets rather slender, rusty- 
stellate-tomentose as are the undersurfaces of the leaves and the 
inflorescence branches; leaf-buds lanceolate, about lem. long. Leaves 
submembranaceous or rather thicker; elliptic or elliptic-obovate or -ob- 
lanceolate, acute or abruptly acuminate at apex, cuneate, attenuate 
or sometimes rounded or even subcordate at base; upper surface glab- 
rous, dull brown when dry, lower reddish-brown, glabrescent when 
old; 12—25 cm. long, 5—9 cm. broad; midrib rather slender ; main 
nerves 12—15 pairs, straight at first, curved near the margin, slight- 
ly prominent on both surfaces; reticulation obscure; petiole about 
15 mm. long, slender. Flowers: 3% in many-branched many- 
flowered panicles up to 10 cm. long; branches spreading, laxly 
rufous-tomentose, ending in densely-flowered cymules; pedicels 
1—1°5 mm. long, slender; perianth depressed-globose, thin, glabrous, 
2—2'5 mm. in diam.,, divided halfway into 3—4 broad triangular acute 
teeth; androecium sessile, depressed-globose, 2 mm. in diam., 1 mm. 
high; anthers 10O—15, much incurved at either end; 2 not known, 
