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the young fruits in short solitary 8—10-flowered racemes. frit in 
lax racemes of 3-—5, 2—2°5 cm. long, ovoid, slightly flattened, ridged 
along the suture, subglabrous; pericarp fleshy; pedicel about 6 cm. 
long. Seed ovoid; testa crustaceous, shining; arillus fleshy, entire, 
not laciniate or areolate, embracing the whole seed. Myrisirea tomen- 
tosa, Hook. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. 161 (1855); Hook. f. FJ. Br. Ind. V. 
105; A. DC. in Prodr. XIV. 204; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 68; King 
Ann. Cale. III. 301, t. 129. Myristicacea, Wall. Cat. 9025. Myris- 
tica Horsfieldia, Wall. Cat. 6806 (in part). 
Kepau: at Yan, Ridley 5489!. Penane: Porter (Wallich 9025!) ; 
Phillips!; at Pulau Boetong, Curtis 1197!, 1748!; Ridley 7205!, 
10240!, 10787!. Smtancor: at Weld’s Hill, Burn-Murdoch 44!. 
' Perak: in bamboo and other forest up to about 250 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 4165!, 5671!, 6102!, 79981, 8642!, 10386!, 10557!. Ma- 
Lacca: Maingay K.D. 1284; at Sungei Jernoh, Derry 967!; at 
Chaban Woods, Ridley 3171!. 
8. HorsFreLpDia WatLicuit, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 305 (1897). 
A large tree, reaching a height of 30 m. or more and 60—-80 cm. in 
diam. of stem; branchlets stout, rough, with dark grey channelled 
bark, the youngest minutely rusty-tomentose; leaf-buds lanceolate, 
i—2 cm. long. Leaves coriaceous; oblong and acute at apex or 
rarely elliptic and blunt, the base rounded, subtruncate or subcordate ; 
upper surface shining, greenish-brown, glabrous, lower rutous- 
brown, loosely and deciduously stellate-tomentose; margins revo- 
lute; oblong forms 25—35 cm. long and 7—11 cm. broad, elliptic 
forms 15—20 cm. long and about 10 cm. broad; midrib stout, 
flattened or somewhat channelled above; main nerves 1i—22 pairs 
in the oblong, 10—12 in the elliptic forms, stout, impressed above, 
straight at first, curved and looped together near the margin; trans- 
verse nervules arched, visible on the lower surface; reticulation 
obscure; petiole 1—2 cm. long, stout, channelled. Flowers: 3 in 
long stout spreading many-flowered rufous-tomentose panicles 
10—30 cm. long from the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves; 
branches thick, with subumbellate cymules, pedicels very short, 
tomentose; perianth fleshy, glabrous, globose, 2—3 mm. in diam., 
teeth 3—4, triangular, acute; andrcecium sessile, ovate- or obovate- 
globose, depressed at apex, 2mm. high; anthers about 15, incurved, 
confluent: ¢ in panicles like the ¢ but stouter, shorter and fewer- 
flowered, the flowers larger: perianth coriaceous, tomentose exter- 
nally at the base otherwise glabrescent; teeth 3, spreading; ovary 
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