218 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
oblong, rather wider in the lower half, obtuse at apex, slightly and 
suddenly cuneate at base, otherwise rounded; upper surface dull, 
greenish when dry, with scattered shallow pits, lower reddish-brown, 
-dull, subglaucous; margin slightly revolute; 16—22 cm. long, 7—9 
em. broad; midrib stout, channelled and keeled above, prominent 
and rough beneath; main nerves 12—15 pairs, impressed above when 
dry, rather prominent beneath, at first straight and parallel, curving 
and interarching near the margin ; reticulation very obscure; petiole 
very stout, 2 cm.long. Flowers: 3 in spreading rufous-tomentose 
panicles 6—12 cm. long, 5—7 cm. broad, from the axils of the leaves 
or of fallen leaves; branches many, ending in many-flowered rather 
dense clusters; bracts ovate or obovate, scurfy, 2—3 mm. long, 
caducous, but a few persisting till the flower opens; pedicels 1—1°5 
mm. long; buds globose, 1—1-5 mm. in diam.; perianth bivalved, the 
valves thin, rugose outside; andrcecium sessile, flattened, elongated 
transversely ; anthers 6—10, partially attached to the column but 
easily separable, slightly incurved at tip: 9? im stout scurfy panicles 
up to 8 em. long, 5 cm. broad, the pedicels very thick 2-5 mm. long; 
buds globose, 3—3:5 mm. in diam., vertically furrowed; perianth 
bivalved, very thick; ovary depressed globose, with sessile bilobed 
stigma. Fruit yellow, in panicles 5—-7 cm. long of about 4—6, 2 cm. 
long, 1:5 cm. diam., ovoid, the rhachis and peduncles very thick, 
angular, rugose, the perianth-lobes persistent, reflexed; pericarp 
thick, minutely ragose when dry, splitting down one side. Seed 
ovoid, smooth; arillus thin, fleshy, covering nearly the whole seed, 
laciniate only at the apex. Myristica crassifolia, Hook. f. and Th. 
Fl. Ind. 160 (1855) ; A. DC. Prodr. xiv. i. 204; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 
2.68; Hook. f. F). Br. Ind. V. 108; King Ann. Calc. ILI. 308, t. 140, 
t. 172, fig 4. MM. Irya var. crassifolia, Mig. in Herb. M. Horsfieldit, 
Blume?, Wall. Cat. 6806 (in part). 
PERAK: in dense forest on low wet ground up to 300 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 6688!. Matacoa: Griffith K.D. 4350!; Cantley; at 
Sungei Hudang, Derry 1163!. SinearorE: Wallich 6806 in part ; 
T. Anderson 9!; at Chanchukang, Bukit Mandai, and Bukit Timah, 
Ridley 361!, 1819!, 1828!, 3831!, 4132!, 5826!, 6909!, 8040!, 10695! . 
—Distris. Bangka, Borneo, Amboina (De Vriese 22!). 
The 2 flowers have been described from Ridley’s No. 10695, the fruit from 
Kunstler’s 6688 and Ridley’s specimens, the identification of which there seems 
no reason to doubt. I have not quoted King’s Collector 10413 and some others 
admitted by Warburg as I think they belong probably to H. sucosa. 
14, HorsFIELDIA BRACHIATA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 325 (1897). 
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