228 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
1. Myristica Maxima, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 385 (1897). A 
tree reaching 24—30 m. in height and 90—120 cm. in diam. of stem; 
branches spreading; branchlets stout, smooth, lenticelled, glabrous; 
buds lanceolate, tawny. Leaves coriaceous; oblong, sometimes 
slightly obovate, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate at apex, 
rounded or subtruncate rarely cuneate at base; upper surface glab- 
rous, shining, lower pale, glaucous, minutely adpressed-lepidote when 
young; margins recurved; 25—40 cm. long, 10—15 cm. broad; 
midrib very stout; main nerves 20—30 pairs, spreading or subhori- 
zontal, inter-arching within the edge, prominent beneath, scaly when 
young, but ultimately glabrous; petiole stout, 2—3 cm. long. 
Flowers: 3 in panicles, axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves, 
10—17 cm. long; rhachis flattened, scaly; branches short, bearing 
subumbellate racemes of 4—6 flowers; pedicels slender, 1—2 cm. 
long; bracteole semi-annular or suborbicular, embracing half the 
base of the flower, 2 mm. long; perianth leathery, scaly-tomentose 
without, glabrous within, urceolate, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, the 
mouth with 3 broadly triangular subacute teeth; andrcecium cylin- 
dric, 4—5 mm. long, on a short thick stalk 1—2 mm. long, nearly as 
long as the perianth, the connectives connate in a cone at the apex; 
anthers 12—20 narrowly elongate: 2 unknown. Fruit ellipsoid or 
oblong when ripe, blunt at the apex, slightly narrowed at base, 
minutely rufous-pubescent, sub-furfuraceous, 7—9 cm. long, 4—5 
cm. in diam.; pericarp thickly coriaceous. Seed shining, conform to 
the fruit; arillus thin, fleshy, bright red, extending to the apex of 
the seed, laciniate and areolate. WM. bracteata, King (non DC.) Ann. 
Clac. III. 286, t. 107. 
PENANG: Government Hill 350 m., Curtis 1497!. PHRAK: atlow 
elevations on the hills near Larut, King’s Collector 5513!, 6960!; at 
Larut, Scortechint 1872!. Sincapore: at Bukit Timah, fidley 
3363!—Distrip. Borneo (Beccari 1556!). 
2. Myristica Matneayt, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 104 (1886). 
A tall tree reaching 9—18 m. in height and 45—60 cm. in diam. of 
stem; bark contracting in longitudinal ridges; branchlets rather 
stout, at first rusty-tomentose, afterwards glabrous with thin nearly 
black bark. Leaves coriaceous; linear-oblong, acute or acuminate at 
apex, acute cuneate or rounded at base; upper surface shining, 
lower dull, both glabrous, pale brown when dry; margins recurved ; 
13— 20 cm. long, 4--5 cm. broad; midrib stout, shghtly impressed 
and keeled above, prominent beneath; main nerves 16—18 pairs, im- 
