220 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
brown, dull, glabrous except the midrib; margin slightly revolute; 
10—17 cm. long, 4—6 cm. broad; midrib slender, keeled above, 
scurfy-puberulous beneath; main nerves 10—15 pairs, thin but 
sharp and bold on both surfaces, subparallel, gently curving to near 
the margin and there joining in arches at 2—3 mm. from the edge; 
transverse nervules and reticulation obscure ; petiole 8—12 mm. long, 
channelled. Flowers: 3 in much-branched, spreading, rusty tomen- 
tose panicles from the axils of leaves and of fallen leaves 5—12 
em. long, 3—7 cm. broad; rhachis rusty-puberulous; branches 
ending in subumbellate cymules; bracts lanceolate, densely rusty- 
tomentose, quickly deciduous; pedicels about 1°5 mm. long; peri- 
anth globose, glabrous, black when dry, 1 mm. in diam., teeth 3, 
triangular; andreecium sessile, 3-angled; anthers 9—12, ovate, free 
at the margins: 2 in stout, few-flowered rusty-pubescent panicles, 
4 cm.indiam.; ovary sessile, ovoid, glabrous; stigma sub-bilobed. 
Fruit in short racemes of 2—-3, pedunculate, ovoid, narrowly ridged 
on one side, glabrous, 2 cm. long, 1—5 cm. in diam.; pericarp 
coriaceous. Seed ovoid, smooth, shining; arillus completely cover- 
ingit. Myristica Lemanniana, A. DC. in Ann. Sc. IV. 31, t. 4, and 
Prodr. xiv. 203; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat.1I. 2.66. MM. globularia, Hook.f. and 
Th. Fl. Ind. 180; A. DC. Prodr. xiv. i. 202 in part. M. polyspherula, 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 108; King Ann. Calc. 312, t. 146. 
PERAK: in dense forest at 150—300 m. alt., Ulu Bubong, etc., 
King’s Collector 3309!, 5536!, 7526!, 10256!, 10431!, 10513!; at 
Goping, Scortechina 211!; at Thaiping, Wray 2088!. Matacca, 
Grifith K.D. 4354!; Maingay K.D. 1286!; at Bukit Panchur and 
Merliman, Derry 1136! and 1216!. Sivcapore: at Jurong, Chan- 
chukang, and Bukit Timah, etc., Ridley 2042!, 2108!, 4438! 8930!; 
at Bukit Timah, Hulleit 209! . 
16. HORSFIELDIA SUBGLOBOSA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 328,° t. 
xxi. (1897). A tree reaching 12—24m.in height ; branches spreading ; 
branchlets brown, striate, rusty-pubescent and scurfy when young, 
glabrous when old, faintly 2-ridged between the leaves or leaf-scars. 
Leaves stiffly chartaceous, fragile when dry; elliptic-oblong, acumin- 
ate at apex, cuneate or sometimes rounded at base: upper surface 
glabrous, pale, olivaceous-brown when dry, lower surface reddish- 
brown except the deciduously pubescent midrib; margins recurved ; 
15—26 cm. long, 5—7 cm. broad, broadest in the middle; midrib 
slender, keeled on the upper surface; main nerves 13—17 pairs, sub- 
parallel, raised on both surfaces, nearly straight to join in arches at 
