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pressed above, slightly prominent beneath, evanescent towards the 
margin ; transverse nervules rather obscure, impressed ; petiole 2—2°5 
em. long. Flowers: 3 in drooping, solitary, axillary, 10- to 16- 
flowered rusty-tomentose umbellate cymes; peduncle 5—6 mm. long; 
pedicels thick, 3 mm. long; bracteole half-orbicular, up to 5 mm. 
long, embracing the lower half of the flower on one side; perianth 
ovate, rusty-tomentose without, granular within, up to 6-5 mm. 
long, teeth ovate, acute; andrcoecium fusiform, shortly apiculate, 5 
mm. long, on a very short rufous-villous column: anthers 7 or 8, 
linear: 2 not known. Frwit oblong, 7—9 cm. long and 3—4 cm. in 
diam., blunt, glabrous; peduncle about 2°5 cm. long, stout, woody ; 
pericarp thick, fleshy. Seed ellipsoid, smooth, 5 cm. long; arillus 
fleshy, reaching to the apex of the seed, deeply fimbriate in its upper 
half. King Ann. Cale. IIT. 294, t. 114; Warb. Monog. Myrist. 398. 
PENANG: at Moniot’s road, 450. m. alt., Curtis 2455!. Prrax: 
Scortechini!. Matacca: Maingay K. D. 1289!; at Bukit Jas, Derry 
1033!. 
3. MyrisTica GicanTEeA, King in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. II. 
288, t. 110 (1891). A large tree reaching 27—40 m. in height and 
considerable girth; bark black, fissured; branchlets thin, at first 
rusty-puberulous, afterwards giabrous and dark coloured; leaf-buds 
lanceolate, rusty-puberulous. Leaves coriaceous; narrowly elliptic- 
oblong or -lanceolate, obtuse or obtusely acute at apex, acute at 
base; both surfaces glabrous, upper shining, pale when dry, lower 
dull, pale, subglaucous at first; margins revolute; 7—11 cm. long, 
2—3'5 cm. broad; midrib impressed and keeled above. prominent 
beneath; main nerves 12—18 pairs, subhorizontal, faint, impressed 
abeve, interarching close to the edge; reticulation impressed above, 
obscure beneath ; petiole 12—18 mm. long, channelled. Flowers: 3 
in’ rusty-pubescent, cymose, rather stout panicles from the axils of 
the leaves or of fallen leaves, twice as long as the petioles; perianth 
3—4 mm. long, ovoid, with short blunt or subacute teeth, rusty- 
tomentose without, subglabrous within: pedicel 3—4 mm. long; 
bracteole narrowly semi-annular, embracing half the base of the 
perianth, tomentose; andreecium half the length of the perianth, 
eylindric, blunt, the anthers linear, about 10, stalk about one-third of 
the length of the column, tomentose: @ unknown. rut (imma- 
ture) 2°5 cm. long, solitary, on a thick woody pedicel 12—25 mm. 
long, broadly ovoid, slightly pointed, densely rufous-tomentose. 
Seed ovoid, shining; the arillus thin, extending to the apex of the 
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