214 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
globose, sessile, glabrous; stigma sessile, small, linear. Fruit (quite 
young) ovoid, smooth, on a short stout pedicel, the slightly enlarged 
perianth persistent at the base, (old) obovoid, finely rugose, 5—6 cm. 
long, 3—5 cm. in diam. Myristica Wallichtt, Hook. £. and Th. FI. 
Ind. 161 (1855) ; A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 203; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2, 67; 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 105; King Ann. Cale. IIT. 303, tt. 132, 133 
(excl. syn. crassifolua, Hook.f. and Th.). MW. Horsfieldia, Wall. (not of 
Bl.) Cat. 6806, in part. 
PROVINCE WELLESLEY: at Kubang Ulu, Curtis 2423! Prrax: 
Scortechint 246!; in hilly forest near Goping at 150—250 m. ailt., 
King’s Collector 4837!. Matacca: Maingay K.D. 1284! Sryearore: 
Wallich, 6806, in part!; Murton 1481!; Maingay K.D. 1283!; at 
Taunglin and Chanchukang, Ridley 4422!, 5060!. 
The description of the old fruit is taken from Ridley 4422, a specimen 
which probably neither King nor Warbug had seen when they wrote their 
monographs. 
9. HoRSFIELDIA AMYGDALINA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 316 (1897): 
A glabrous tree; branchlets terete, nearly glabrous, with white lenti- 
cels usually conspicuous. Leaves pergamaceous ; elliptic-oblong, 
acute, scarcely acuminate, at both ends; blackish-brown above 
when dry, reddish-brown beneath; 12—18 cm. long, 3—7 cm. 
broad ; main nerves 8—12 pairs, hardly conspicuous, somewhat paral- 
lel and curved near the margin, impressed above; transverse 
nervules and reticulation obscure; petiole about 12 mm. long, chan- 
nelled. Flowers: 3 in locse branching panicles from the axils of the 
leaves or of fallen leaves, 8—10 cm. long; rhachis fulvous-puberu- 
lous; bracts lanceolate, acute, early caducous; perianth in bud 
globose, 1—1-5 mm. in diam., 2—3-lobed; andreecium 1 mm. long, 
globose, sessile; anthers 12—15, erect, incurved at the apex; 2 not 
known. Fruit on thick peduncles, 3—4 cm. long, 2—3 em. broad; 
pericarp thick, fleshy, the valves subacute when dry. Seed ovate, 
smooth, shining; the arillus complete or more or less distinctly and 
very shortly laciniate at the apex; albumen ruminate. Myristica 
amygdalina, Wall. Cat. 6797 (1828) and Pl. As. Rar. I. 79, t. 90; A. DC. 
in Prodr. xiv. 1.203; Hook. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. 160 (excl. syn. ezaltata, 
Wall.); Hook. f. Fl.Br. Ind. V. 106, (excel. syn. ewaltata, Wall.); Kurz 
For. Fl. Burma IT. 283; King Ann. Calc. III. 300, t. 125 in part. M. 
floribunda, Wall. Cat. 6805. M. integra, Wall. Cat. 6799. M. glabra, 
Hook. f. and Th. |.c. 161 in part; A. DC. 1.c. 202 in part; Hook. f. 1.c. 
in part; King l.c. 310, t. 142. M.sucosa, King t. 172, figs. 2, 5, 6, 7. 
