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about 4 mm. from the edge; transverse nervules and reticulation 
obscure; petiole stout, 8—12 mm. long, bordered by the decurrent 
margins of the blade. Flowers: ¢ in axillary, lax, spreading pan- 
icles 4—S8 cm. long; rhachis slightly scurfy-pubescent especially when 
young; pedicels 1—-1'5 mm. long, glabrous; perianth globose, glab- 
rous, scarcely 1 mm. in diam. with 3 acute triangular teeth; andro- 
cium transversely ovoid, compressed or 3-angled, anthers about 10 
attached only by their bases, the margins free: 2 inshorter panicles, 
2—3 em. long, subglabrous, sparingly branched; pedicels thick; 
perianth subglobose, 1—1°5 mm. in diam., shortly 3-toothed; ovary 
depressed-globular, glabrous, with small! oblique stigma. Frwit 
solitary or in racemes of 2 or 3, ovoid-globose, glabrous; 3:5—4 cm. 
long, 2.5—3 cm.in diam.; pericarp yellowish red, thickly coriaceous. 
Seed globose, smooth; arillus rather thick, entire, covering the testa 
completely. Myristica subglobosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 383; 
Ann. II. 49. WM. globularia, Bl. and subglobosa, Mig. in Ann. I. 206. 
M. glabra, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 65 im part. M. glabra, Miq. var. 
sumatrana in Ann. II. 49. M. Colleitiana, King Ann. Calc. III. 
313, t. 147. 
PpraAk: in forests up to 450 m. alt., King’s Collector 3620!, 
3899!, 6566%!, 6672!, 6737!. JonorE: Road to Gunong Palai, 
Ridley 12155!.—-DisTR1B. Sumatra. 
17. HorsrieLp1a RipLteyana, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 231 (1897). 
A tree, reaching 12—18 m. in height and up to 30 cm. or more in 
diam. of stem ; glabrous except the panicle and leaf-buds, branchlets 
slender, dark brown, with very faint pairs of ridges from the bases of 
the leaf-scars; innovations rusty-puberulous. Leaves chartaceous; 
lanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; upper surface 
greenish when dry, lower bright brown; 7—13 cm. long, 2°5—4-5 em. 
broad; midrib slender, slightly impressed above; main nerves 7—10 
pairs, inconspicuous, spreading; petiole 1—1-5 cm. long, channelled 
above. Flowers: 3 in spreading scurfy or almost glabrous panicles 
from the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves, up to 6 em. long; rhachis 
angular; branches short, ending in subumbellate cymes; pedicels 1-5 
~~—2 mm. long, slender; perianth thick, globose, 1—1:5 mm. in diam., 
teeth 3—4, triangular, acute; andrcecium sessile, trigonous, with 
7—10 suberect anthers attached at their bases, free at their margins 
and apices: 2 in short racemes, 1-5—2 cm. long; perianth thick, 
globose, 1:5—2 mm. in diam., the teeth short; ovary sessile, glabrous, 
grooved, with an oblique grooved stigma. fruit (young) solitary or 
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