224 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
broad splitting into two valves; pericarp coriaceous, 2 mm. thick. 
Seed (immature) ovoid ; arillus longer than the seed and deeply laci- 
niate, thin. Myristica Murtoni, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 105; King 
Ann. Cale. IIT. 297, t. 124 ter. M. ferruginea, Wall. Cat. 6803; King 
lier298, t4 125: 
SINGAPORE: Wallich 6803!; at Selitar, Audley 1835!, 4815!; at 
Sungei Morai, Ridley 3890!. 
2. GYMNACRANTHERA ForpeEstt, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 363, t. 
xx. (1897). A tree, reaching 18—24 m. in height and 60—90 cm. in 
diam. of stem, glabrous except the rufous-tomentose lanceolate leaf- 
buds and puberulous inflorescence; branchlets slender, pale brown, 
smooth, with minute lenticels. Leaves chartaceous or thinly coria- 
ceous; oblong-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate 
or somewhat rounded at base; both surfaces when dry somewhat - 
purplish-brown, the upper shining, the lower glaucous; 15—25 cm. 
long, 5—10 cm. broad; midrib rather stout, impressed above, 
prominent beneath; main nerves 13—17 pairs, thin but distinct 
beneath, sub-horizontal to ascending, inter-arching within (5 mm. 
from) the margin in rather prominent loops; secondary nerves and 
transverse nervules few; reticulation obscure; petiole about 10—15 
mm. long, channelled above. Flowers: 3 in spreading panicles 5—6 
cm. long from the axils of the leaves or of failen leaves ; branches short, 
many-flowered, bearing umbellate cymules, in subglobular clusters ; 
pedicels slender, 2 mm. long; perianth at first ovoid, afterwards 
urceolate, 3°5—4 mm. long; teeth 3—5, reflexed, nearly as long as 
the tube, acute; andrcecium sessile, 2 mm. high, subquadrangular ; 
anthers 6—10, free at the apex and sides, twisted: 2 in condensed 
panicles, fewer-flowered than in 3 and under 2°5 cm. long; perianth 
scurfy-pubescent within; teeth acute; ovary sessile, ovoid, scurfy- 
pubescent; stigma oblique. Fruit in racemes 3—12, when young 
subglobular, when ripe narrowly obovoid, grooved, slightly scurfy, 
2—2'5 cm. long, 12 mm. in diam.; peduncle rather stout, thickened 
upwards, 8—10 mm. long; pericarp yellow to red, coriaceous. Seed 
smooth, ellipsoid or slightly obovoid; arillus extending to the apex of . 
the seed, thin, pale, fleshy, divided to the base into many narrow 
segments. Myristica Forbesu, King Ann. Calc. IIT. 306, t. 137. 
PENANG: Government Hill, Maingay 1293!. PrRovinck WEL- 
LESLEY: at Krian, Ridley 9464!. PERAK: common at elevations up 
to 250 m. alt., King’s Collector 37831, 6591!, 6784!, 6973!, 7419!, 
