216 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
pairs of raised ridges joining the bases of the leaf-scars, the upper- 
most dark brown, glabrous; leaf-buds linear-lanceolate. Leaves 
membranous, glabrous; oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, 
cuneate at base; upper surface dull greenish-brown when dry, lower 
paler not greenish; 14—20 cm. long, 4—6 cm. broad; midrib rather 
prominent ; main nerves 10—20 pairs, slender, at first straight, 
curved near the margin and sometimes looped; transverse nervules 
few, obscure as is reticulation; petiole about 1 cm. long. lowers: 
3 minute, yellow, in axillary glabrous or minutely rufous-pubescent 
scurfy, many-flowered panicles 6—10 cm. long; branches slender, 
ending in glomerulate clusters of flowers; bracts oblong, scurfy, 
dotted, 1—2 mm. long, early caducous; pedicels slender, 1—2 mm. 
Jong; buds globose, 1 mm. in diam.; perianth very thin, bivalved; 
andreecium broadly obovate, flat-topped, slightly elongate trans- 
versely; anthers about 6—10, free except at base, incurved at the 
apices: 2 in smaller panicles than the ¢ , 4—5 cm. long, the flowers 
fewer and larger; perianth obovoid, bivalved, thick; ovary glabrous, 
sessile, globular; stigma small, subterminal. rust solitary or in 
scanty racemes, globose, about 2 cm. in diam., glabrous; pericarp 
yellow, thick, coriaceous. Seed spherical; arillus red, thin, fleshy, 
completely enveloping the seed, entire or slightly cleft at the very 
apex, the lobes overlapping. Myristica Irya, Gaertn. Fruct. I. 195, 
t. 41 (1788); Poiv. Encyc. Meth. Dict. xii. 36; Lam. Ill. t. 833, 3; 
Hook. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. 159; A. DC. in Prodr. xiv. i. 202 (excel. 
syn. M. exaltata, Wall.); Mig. Fi. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 64; Bedd. Forest 
Man. 176; Kurz For. Fl. II. 282; de Vriese Pl. Reinw. 95; 
Thwaites Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 11; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. IL’. 485; Hook. f. Fl. 
Br. Ind. V. 109 (excl. syn. M. exaliata, Wall.); King Ann. Cale. III. 
309, tt. 141, 141 bis; Brandis Ind. Trees 525; Koord. and Val. Bijdr. 
IV. 184. M. javanica, Blume Bijdr. 576 and in Rumphia I. 190, t. 
62. M.spherocarpa, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. I. 79, t. 89; Wall. Cat. 
6796. I. exaltata, Wall. Cat. 6804 in part. M. micrantha, Wall. Cat. 
6807. I. Vriesiana, Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. IT. 49. 
PenanG: at Pulau Boetong, Curtis 936!. Matacca: Griffith, 
K.D. 4357!; Maingay K.D.1291!, 1292!. Prrax: at Krian, etc., 
Scortechini 1738!; King’s Collector 7447!; at Bruas Dindings, Ridley 
7206!. Durypines: at Pulau Sembilan, Ridley 3043!. JonorE: at 
Sungei Panh, Adley 11328!. Sryeapore: on Pulau Buru, Ridley. 
1701!; Changi, Ridley 4814!; in garden jungle, Ridley 8857! .—Dts- 
TRIB. Java, Sumatra (Forbes 3197!), Ceylon, Burma, Andamans, 
Borneo. 
