230 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
seed, narrowly fimbriate nearly to the base. Warb. Monog. Myrist. 
400. 
PERAK: at elevations under 300 m. alt., Scortechini 19491; 
King’s Collector 5866!, 6050. 
4. Myristica 1neRS, Bl. Bijdr. 575 (1828). A tree; branch- 
lets slender, dark brown, rough, uppermost subglaucous and slightly 
puberulous. Leaves chartaceous; oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
acute or slightly acuminate at apex, attenuate at base; both surfaces. 
glabrous, upper olivaceous when dry, lower reddish-brown; margins. 
slightly recurved; 8—1S8 cm. long, 3—4 cm. broad; midrib slender, 
keeled above; main nerves 12—15 pairs, impressed above, oblique, 
curving to and along the margin but not looped; transverse nervules 
and reticulation obscure; petiole 1 to 1°5 cm. long, often twisted. 
Flewers: 3 in short panicles of subumbellate cymules from the axils. 
of the leaves or of fallen leaves, the panicles up to 2—2°5 cm. long; 
pedicels slender, about 4 mm. long; bracteole ovate, 1:25 mm. long, 
embracing the base of the perianth; perianth ovoid, 3—4 mm. long, 
rusty-puberulous without, glabrous within, 3-toothed, the teeth 
1—1°5 mm. long; andreecium 2°5 mm. long, slender, the anthers as. 
long as the stalk, the latter rather slender, puberulous; anthers 
about 10: @ in short axillary panicles about 14 mm. long, puberu- 
lous; bracts very short as are the pedicels, bracteoles large, at the 
base of the perianth; perianth inflated, campanulate, tomentose 
without, 5mm. long, 4mm. broad; ovary ovoid-conic, ferruginous- 
pubescent: stigma obtuse. Fruzt very large, oblong, single or in 
pairs, up to 7 cm. long, 4 em. thick; peduncles short, thick; pericarp. 
slightly tomentose, soon glabrescent. Seed 4—5 cm. long, 2—3 cm. 
broad; the arillus thick, red, laciniate except near the base. BI. 
Rumphia I. 184, t. 58; A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 190 (evel. syn. Roxb. and 
Cum.); Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 57 (excl. as above); Koord. & 
Val. Bijdr. iv. 175; Warb. Monog. Myrist. 521, t. xvii. MW. sublanceo- 
lata, Miq. |.c. 58. 
Perak: at lower camp, Gunong Batu Pateh, at about 1000 m. 
alt., Wray 1214!. 
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(1886). Aglabroustree; branchlets rather slender. Leaves oblong or 
oblong-elliptic, acute or acuminate at apex, usually rounded but 
sometimes acute at base; 15—25 cm. long, 4—9 cm. broad; midrib 
stout; main nerves 15—20 pairs, at first nearly straight, finally 
5. Myristica MALACCENSIS, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 104. 
