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7645!, 7732!, 8159!, 8722!, 8756!, 10080!; at Tapa, Wray 1429!. 
NEGRI SeMBILAN: at Tampur, Goodenough 1845!. Manacca: Main- 
gay K.D. 1295; at Ayer Panas, Holmberg 818!; at Kesang Tua and 
Sungei Hudang, Goodenough 1317!, 1355!. Sineapore: at Selitar, 
Ridley 6270!.—Distris. Sumatra (Forbes 2976!, 3061 !). 
3. GYMNACRANTHERA Farquuariana, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 
365, t. xx. (1897). A tree reaching 20—30 m. in height and up to 
about 90 cm. in diam. of stem; branches spreading; branchlets 
slender, at first rusty-puberulous, afterwards paler, often slightly 
lenticellate ; leaf-buds linear-lanceolate, about 5 mm. long. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, glabrous; lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or slightly 
oblanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; upper surface 
shining, brown when dry, lower pale, purplish-brown, glaucous ; 
margins revolute; 7—15 cm. long, 2—4 cm. broad; midrib slender, 
slightly impressed above, prominent and dark beneath ; main nerves 
6—10 pairs, usually indistinct, only slightly inter-arching ; reticula- 
tion obscure ; petiole about 1 cm. long, channelled above. Flowers : 
3 in spreading rusty-puberulous panicles 2-5—4 cm. long and 2°5 
em. broad from the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves; pedicels 
1-5—2 mm. long, puberulous; cymules umbellate, 6—10-flowered ; 
perianth ovoid, inflated, 2-5—3-5 mm. long, puberulous outside and 
inside, the inside also with numerous vertical lines; teeth 3 or 4, 
triangular, acute, nearly half the length of the perianth; andrcecium 
cylindric, sessile, 1°5—2 mm. long; anthers 7—8, narrow, elongate, 
the apices and edges free: 2 in few-flowered short panicles, 2—2°5 
em. long, from the axils of fallen ieaves; pedicels short; perianth 
deeply 3—4-cleft, 2—2-5 mm. long, the lobes acute, their tips reflexed ; 
ovary sessile, ovoid-globose, tomentose; stigma sessile, transversely 
2-lobed. Fruit in woody racemes of 2—5, ovoid, slightly pointed at 
each end, faintly grooved on one side and ridged on the other, 1°5— 
2 cm. long, 1—1-5 cm. in diam., rufous-pubescent, becoming glabrous 
with age; peduncle 8—12 mm. long, stout; pericarp thick. Seed 
ellipsoid, mottled, smooth; arillus thin, extending to the apex of the 
seed, narrowly laciniate. Myristica Farquhariana, Wall. Cat. 6795; 
A. DC. Prodr. xiv.; 200; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 63; Hook. f. & 
Th. Fl. Ind. 161; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 108 (all in part, Malay 
Peninsula material only); King Ann. Cale. III. 305, t. 1386. MM. 
eugeniefolia, A. DC. l.c. 190; Mig. lc. 58; Hook. f. l.c. 113; King 
I.c. 330. 
PENANG: Curtis 487, 804!, etc. Perak: Scortechini!; at Tapa 
