Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 215 
Prenanc: Curtis. Singapore: Murton 76! —Duistris. Sylhet, 
Burma, Andamans. 
There are no specimens in Hb. Cale. and Murton’s is apparently the only 
one at Kew, the description has, therefore, been adapted from that of Warburg. 
10. Horsrietpia Magsuscuta, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 315 
(1897). A tree, reaching 12—21 m. in height and 30—50 cm. in 
diam. of stem; branchlets stout, greyish-brown, rough, warted, 
glabrous except the rufous-puberulous extremities and lanceolate leat- 
buds. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous; elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 
acute or shortly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; upper surface 
pale, greenish-brown when dry, dull, lower bright reddish-brown ; 
margins revolute; 18—25 cm. long, 4—8 cm. broad; midrib stout, 
usually slightly keeled above, prominent and often rufous-puberu- 
lous beneath; main nerves 10—15 pairs, spreading, raised and keeled 
above, raised beneath, interarching within the margin at about 5 mm. 
from it; transverse nervules few, obscure on the upper, faint on the 
lower surface; petiole stout, 12—18 mm. long, channelled above. 
Flowers: 3 in lax much branched panicles up to 8 cm. long and 6 cm. 
broad from the axils of fallen leaves, wide at the base and narrowing 
upwards, the main rhachis stout, angular, scurfy; branches ending 
in few-flowered cymules; pedicels short; buds globose, 1—2 mm. in 
diam.; perianth thick, leathery, rugose, glabrous, with 3—4 trian- 
gular teeth; andrcecium nearly sessile, trigonous, depressed ; anthers: 
about 10—13, narrow, attached at the sides, free at the apex: 2 in. 
shorter, less branched stouter panicles; perianth ovoid, 2 mm. in 
diam., rough; ovary subglobose; stigmaconical. Fruityellowish-red, 
on the branches below the leaves, in pairs or solitary, broadly ovoid, 
obtuse but slightly pointed when young, glabrous, 4:5 cm. long, 
4cm. in diam.; pericarp thickly leathery. Seed ovoid, faintly reticu- 
late, smooth; arillus fleshy, entire, covering the whole seed and over- 
lapping at the apex. Myristica majuscula, King Ann. Calc. III. 310, 
t. 143 (1891). 
PzRak: at elevations up to 600 m. alt., King’s Collector 5059!, 
6004!, 7965!; at Thaipeng, Wray 122!, 2705!, at Waterfall Hull, 
Wray 2064!, 2218!; Scortechint 837!. SInGapoRE: at Bajan, Bukit 
Timah, &c., Ridley 4439!, 5971!, 6448!, 6449!, 6451! 
11. HorsFre:p1a Irnya, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 371, t. xxii 
(1897). A large tree, reaching 12—18 m. in height ; branches spread- 
ing; branchlets stout, greyish-brown, lenticellate, with prominent 
