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A tree reaching 20—30 m. in height; branches spreading, pendulous; 
branchlets stout, glabrous, brown, lenticellate, with prominent pairs 
of raised ridges joining the bases of the leaves or leaf-scars, innova- 
tions and lanceolate leaf-buds rusty-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous, 
elabrous; oblong-lanceolate or -elliptic, acuminate, sometimes ab- 
ruptly, at apex, acute or rounded or even sometimes subcordate at 
base; both surfaces dull, the upper olivaceous, the lower reddish- 
brown when dry; 18—25 cm. long, 6—10 cm. broad; midrib moder- 
ately stout, flattened and slightly keeled above, prominent and 
scurfy-puberulous beneath; main nerves 15—20 pairs, raised on both 
surfaces, spreading and joining in loops near the margin; transverse 
nervules distant, arched, visible on lower surface only ; petiole 6—8 
mm. long, thick. lowers: 3 inslender, much-branched, spreading, 
many-flowered panicles from the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves, 
10—15 cm. long and about as much broad; rhachis rusty-puberulous 
to glabrescent; branches ending in subumbellate cymules; pedicels 
about 1:5—2 mm. long; perianth leathery, 1—1:5 mm. in diam., 
teeth 3, triangular; andrcecium subsessile, sharply trigonous; anthers 
about 9, slightly attached at the sides, the apices free: ? in spread- 
ing panicles 10—15 em. long, rhachis rather thicker than in 3 , rusty- 
puberulous; branches at right angles bearing subumbellate cymes at 
the ends; pedicels thick, 2 mm. long; perianth leathery, 3 mm. in 
diam., teeth 3; ovary sessile, ovoid, ridged on one side; stigma short, 
oblique, 2-lobed. Fruits 6—8 together in woody spreading cymes 
from below the leaves, ovoid, 3 cm. long about 2 cm. in diam. ; peri- 
carp rather thin, glabrous. Seed ovoid, smooth ; arillus covering the 
whole of the seed, slightly laciniate and overlapping at the apex. 
Myristica brachiata, King Ann. Calc. 311, t. 144 (1891). M. Hors- 
fieldia, Wall. (non Bl.) Cat. 6806 in part. M. polyspherula, Hook. f. 
Fl. Br. Ind. v. 108 in pari. 
PERAK : in dense forest on low wet ground, King’s Collector 4704 !, 
6771!; Scoréechint 1649!: Matacca: Griffith K.D. 4351!. Sinea- 
PORE: Ridley 4439!. 
15. HoRsFIELDIA LEMANNIANA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 326 
(1897). A tree reaching 12—20 m. in height and 30—37 cm. in diam. 
of stem; branchlets dark brown, somewhat rough, the younger rusty- 
puberulous and scurfy, ultimately glabrous and striate. Leaves 
chartaceous, fragile when dry; oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acu- 
minate at apex, cuneate to slightly rounded at base; upper surface 
pale greenish-brown when dry, glabrous, shining, lower surface dark 
