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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 233 
reticulation not visible; petiole 1—2 cm. long, scurfy-pubescent. 
Flowers: & in rufous-tomentose 8- to 14-flowered axillary umbellate 
cymes about as long as the petioles; peduncle stout, flattened, 
10—12 mm. long; pedicels slender, 5 mm. long; bracteole ovate, 
acute, obliquely embracing one side of the base of the flower; peri- 
anth elongate-ovoid, tubular, 6mm. long. minutely scurfy-tomentose 
without, glabrous within, teeth subacute; andreecium cylindric, 
nearly as long as the perianth, slightly apiculate, on a stalk nearly or 
quite as long; anthers about 10, linear: 2 not known. Fruit 
reddish-yellow, ellipsoid, sometimes tapering at the base, the apex 
sub-obtuse but apiculate, 6—9 cm. long, ridged down the middle, 
minutely rufous-tomentose; pericarp 9—-12 mm. thick, fleshy; 
peduncle stout, 6—12 mm. long and about 5—7 mm. thick. Seed 
cylindric-ellipsoid, 5 cm. long; testa thin, shining; arillus thin, ex- 
tending to the apex of the seed, deeply laciniate at the sides. Warb. 
Monog. Myrist. 445. 
PERAK: at elevations under 450 m. alt., King’s Collector 1057!, 
d504!, d5170!, 5355!, 5458!, 5770, 6696!, 7474!; Wray 3026!. 
SINGAPORE: at Changi, Bukit Mandai and Sumbanang, Ridley 3377!, 
3581 !, 5572!, 6266 !. 
9. Myristica FRaGRaNs, Houtt. Handleid Hist. Nat. Linn. II. 
3. 233 (1774). A tree reaching 12—15 m. in height and a considerable 
girth, glabrous except the ovary and young fruit; bark nearly black ; 
branchlets slender, brownish; leaf-buds linear-lanceolate. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous; elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, shortly acuminate at 
apex, acute at base; upper surface shining, lower dull subglaucous; 
6—13 cm. long, 4—6'5 cm. broad; midrib moderately stout, prom- 
inent beneath; main nerves'8—10 pairs, impressed above, prom- 
inent beneath, curving to and along the margin; reticulation 
obscure; petiole 1O—15 mm. long, slender. Flowers: & in slender 
supra-axillary umbellate cymes 2—3 cm. long; perianth 5 mm. long 
ellipsoid, sub-urceolate with short triangular teeth; bracteole ovate, 
1:5 mm. long, deciduous leaving an oblique ring; pedicels slender, 
6—12 mm. long; andreecium cylindric, 3 mm. long, on a stalk 1:5 
mm. long; stamens 9—12: @? larger than the # and in fewer- 
flowered umbels; perianth 8—10 mm.; long, urceolate, the teeth 
short, reflexed; ovary sessile, cylindric-ellipsoid, tawny-villous; 
stigmas 2 flat, broad, fleshy. rut broadly pyriform, sometimes 
apiculate, 6—9 cm. long and nearly as broad, glabrous; pericarp 
yellow, succulent. Seed broadly ovoid, areolate, striate, embraced to 
