222 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
in short racemes of 2—4, ellipsoid. 1—2 cm. long, 10—15 mm. in 
diam.; pedicel 5 mm. long, stout; pericarp thick, glabrous, leathery. 
Seed oval, smooth; arillus thin, quite entire and completely covering 
the seed. Myristica Ridleyana, King Ann. Calc. III. 311, t. 145 
(1891). 
PERAK: at elevations from 180—240 m. alt., King’s Collector 
10917!; at Haram, Scortechini 862!. SuneEr Usone: Cantley 1798. 
HOORSFIELDIA SYLVESTRIS, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 337, t. xii (1897). 
Myristica sylvestris, A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 198; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1.2.61. MM. 
pendulina, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 859; King Ann. Cale. 329, t. 170 is re- 
presented in the ew and Calcutta Herbaria by specimens collected in Singa- 
pore by Ridley (No. 186) and Cantley. ‘The former is labelled ‘from the 
Gardens’ and it seems very probable that Cantley’s specimen (also 2) is 
similarly from a cultivated tree. Warburg believes that it is only a cultivated 
plant in Singapore as it also is ‘in Java. I, therefore, content myself with this 
note and do not give a description. 
18. HORSFIELDIA RACEMOSA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 347 (1897). 
A tree, 9—12 m. in height; young branches thin, glabrous, dark- 
coloured, older ones striate, polished. Leaves thinly coriaceous; 
elliptic to elliptic-oblong, subacute or shortly and abruptly acuminate 
at apex, rounded or subcuneate at base; glabrous on both surfaces, 
the upper shining, the lower dull and paler; 15—25 cm. long, 5—8 
cm. broad; main nerves 12—16 pairs, slightly prominent on the 
upper, very prominent on the lower, surface, straight and faintly 
inter-arching near the margin; transverse nervules and reticulation 
only slightly visible on the lower surface; petiole about 1°5 cm. long, 
channelled. Flowers not known. Fruit in lax glabrous racemes, 25 
—40 cm. in length, ovoid, slightly oblique, pointed, about 5 cm. 
long, 3 cm. broad; pericarp thickly leathery, glabrous. Seed smooth, 
ovoid, pointed; arillus fleshy, red, completely enveloping the testa, 
shortly fimbriate at the apex. Myristica racemosa, King in Calc. 
Ann. 328, t. 173. 
PrENaye: pass to Ralan, Curtis 934!. Sincapore: Bukit Timah, 
Ridley 6355 !. 
Warburg thinks that this species is most probably referable to oither H. 
Prainié of the Andaman Islands or H. canarioides, and I cannot help thinking . 
he is right, especially in regard to the latter-mentioned. 
2. GYMNACRANTHERA, Warb. 
Dicecious trees with evergreen pergamaceous glabrous leaves, 
reddish-white beneath, the main nerves confluent near the margin, 
