244 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
tomentum. Leaves subcoriaceous; oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate at apex, rounded or slightly cordate at base; 
both surfaces minutely reticulate, the upper glabrous, shining, the 
lower when young and specially on the nerves with minute loose 
scurfy tomentum, ultimately glabrous and subglaucous; margins 
recurved; 13 —27 cm. long, 4:5—6°5 cm. broad: midrib moderately 
stcut, keeled above; main nerves 14—28 pairs, parallel, straight, 
curved and interarching near the margin: transverse nervules very 
many, subparallel, closely netted with the reticulation; petiole stout, 
10—15 mm. long. Flowers: 3 in densely crowded axillary clusters 
of 20—30 on woody tubercles, rusty-pubescent; pedicels 7—10 mm. 
long with the bracteole about the middle; perianth in bud sub- 
globose, depressed, bluntly 3-angled. about 4 mm. in diam., the 
teeth broadly triangular, acute fleshy, glabrous within; andrcecium 
on an obconic striate stalk, the disc concave and sometimes slightly 
mammillate in the centre at first, afterwards flat, triangular; 
stamens 8—18 on short filaments, at first recurved, afterwards flat or 
even suberect: 2 larger than ¢ but in smaller clusters obovoid or 
urceolate with 3 short subacute teeth; ovary depressed-globose, 
tufous-tomentose, style narrow, stigma cupshaped with lobed 
margins. Fruit axillary solitary or in pairs, ovoid, blunt, 3°5—4cm. 
long, 2--2°5 cm. in diam., shortly rufous-pubescent when young, 
glabrescent when ripe, the pericarp thick. Seed ellipsoid, pointed ; 
arillus covering the whole testa, minutely laciniate at the apex. 
Myristica conferta, King Ann. Calc. IIL. 265, t. 150. 
PENANG: at Pulau Boetong, Curtis 2770!. PERAK: at Thai- 
peng, Wray 2377!; indense jungle on low wet ground, King’s Collector 
6211!, 10295!. Panane: at Pulau Chengei, Ridley 2264!. Matac- 
cA: Griffith K.D. 4345!; Maingay K.D. 1289!, 1294!. SINGAPORE: 
Maingay K.D. 1297!; at Bukit Mandai, Ridley’s Collector 442!.— 
DistRis. Andamans, Borneo. 
Var. Scortechinii, Warb. Leaves longer, 16—32 cm. long, with 
thicker petioles. Andrecium with flatter disc, the stamens hori- 
zontal with rather longer filaments. Fruit ovoid-globose shorter, 
longer pedunculate, the pedicels of the 2 longer, 11—12 mm. 
Myristica Scortechinit, King Ann. Calc. III. 317, t. 153. 
Prrak: at Goping, Scortechinii 178!; at Gunong Batu Pateh 
1300 m. alt., Wray 285!, at Tapa, Wray 1422!; in hill forests from 
100 to 450 m. alt., King’s Collector 5617!, 5939!, 6043!, 6694!, 
7926!, 10635!. 
