Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 235 
long and half as much in diam.; pericarp yellowish, thick, succulent. 
Seed ovoid; arillus fleshy, yellow, laciniate, extending to the apex of 
the seed. Warb. Monog. Myrist. 495. 
PERAK: at low elevations under 150 m. near Larut, etc., King’s 
‘Collector 2758!, 4475!, 5065!, 6061!, 7756!, 10038!; Waterfall Hill, 
Wray, 646!. Matacca: Cantley 35!. 
11. Myristica Low1ana, King in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. IIT. 
293, t. 120 (1891). A tree reaching a height of 13—24 m. and 60— 
90 cm. in diam. of stem; branches spreading; branchlets rather 
stout, rough, dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous; oblong, elliptic- 
oblong or sometimes slightly obovate, acute sometimes acuminate at 
apex, cuneate or rounded and sometimes unequal at base; upper 
surface shining, lower dull, subglaucous, both surfaces glabrous; 
margins recurved ; 15—30 cm. long, 5—9 cm. broad; midrib very 
‘stout, somewhat impressed above, prominent beneath; main~nerves 
- 16—20 pairs, prominent on both surfaces and impressed on the upper, 
parallel, at first straight, curved near the margin and. interarching ; 
transverse nervules visible and impressed on the upper surface; 
petiole 2—3 cm. long, stout. Flowers: g in dense many-flowered 
rusty-pubescent glomeruli, shorter than the petioles, from small 
solitary thick tubercles 5 mm. long in the axils of the leaves or of 
fallen leaves; pedicels slender, 3:5—7°5 mm. long; bracteole ovate or 
obovate-rotund, embracing more than half the perianth on one side, 
glabrous within, 2—5 mm. long; perianth 2°5—3-5 mm. long, ovoid, 
rusty-pubescent without, glabrous within, cut to about one-third of 
the way down into 3 broadly triangular teeth; andrcecium ellipsoid, 
on a puberulous stalk much shorter than itself, together 2 mm. long; 
anthers about 10—14: ? not known. Fruit ovoid, pointed at each 
end, 6—8 em. long, 3—4 em. in diam.. covered with soft rufous 
woolly tomentum; pericarp sinuate-ridged, the ridges appearing 
through the tomentum. Seed ellipsoid, blunt at both ends, about 5 
em. long; arillus thin, extending to the apex of the seed, its sides cut 
into wide areole. Warb. Monog. Myrist. 496. 
PERAK: at Port Weld, Scortechini 1551!, 1855!; in rocky locali- 
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ties in forest up to 300 m. alt. near Larut, King’s Collector 5537!, 
7258!. Matacea: at Merliman, Goodenough 1621!. 
Ridiey No. 10922 from Fort Canning, Singapore, is Myristica guattervifolia, 
A. DC.; Warb. Monog. Myrist. 412. Im all probability it is from a cultivated 
plant. The tree is common in the Philippine Islands and has also been col- 
lected at Labuan in Borneo (Moiley 139!) 
