232 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
PENANG AND SINGAPORE: Wallich and Porter 6798A!. PEnanc: 
Curtis 1122!. Perak: in dense forest on low hills, King’s Collector 
3732!, 4276!, 4426!, 4703!, 5198!, 5288!, 8559!, 10321!, 10583!: at 
Waterfall hill and Tupai, Wray 1736!, 2345!; at Goping, Scortechini 
79!, 1964!. Mazracca: Maingay K.D. 1296!. Sincavore: by 
stream, Chanchukang, Ridley 331!; at Bukit Timah, Ridley 6920! — 
DistRis. Sumatra, Borneo. 
7. MyRistTica suavis, King in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. Ii. 
295, t. 121 (1891). A tree, all parts glabrous except the minutely 
pubescent leaf-buds and flowers; branchlets rather stout, cinereous, 
striate, the tips dark-coloured and smooth. Leaves coriaceous ; 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute at each end, the base slightly unequal-sided ; 
upper surface dull, lower pale; margins recurved; 15—23 cm. long, 
5—6 cm. broad; midrib stout; main nerves 20—25 pairs, at first 
straight, parallel, then curving to and along the margin, impressed on 
the upper, prominent on the lower surface; petiole 2.5 mm. long, 
stout, channelled above. Flowers: g¢ 2—4 together in short thick 
woody racemes from the axils of the leaves, or close together on the 
branches below the leaves; pedicels about 2°5 mm. long; bracteole 
broad, semi-orbicular, embracing the base of the flower on one side; 
perianth narrowly campanulate, cut half-way down into 3 triangular 
acute recurved teeth, scurfy-tomentose without, glabrous within; 
andreecium cylindric, not apiculate, shortly stalked; anthers about 6, 
linear, connate: @ like the ¢ but with longer stouter pedicels and 
shorter teeth; ovary narrowly ovoid, minutely tomentose; stigma 
sessile, divided by a central grove into 2 oblong lobes. Fruit unknown, 
the arillus of the young seed extending to its apex, deeply and 
narrowly laciniate, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 441. 
Maxacca: at Selandor: J. M. Alwis!. 
8. MYRISTICA CINNAMOMEA, Kingin Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. 
III. 292, t. 116 (1891). A tree reaching 18 to 24 m. in height and 60 
to 120 cm. in diam. of stem; branches spreading; branchlets thin, 
rather dark, sparingly rufous-puberulous at first, finally glabrous; 
buds lanceolate. Leaves thinly coriaceous; lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, tapering about equally to either end; upper surface shin- 
ing, pale brownish-green when dry, lower uniformly covered with a 
close layer of cinnamomeous minute stellate adpressed hairs;- 
margins recurved when dry; 10—25 cm. long, 3—7 cm. broad; 
midrib stout, deeply impressed above; main nerves 14—20 pairs, 
faint on both surfaces, slightly impressed on the upper, ascending; 
