1064 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Art. 56 
along the upper side. Staminate inflorescence dark fulvous 
puverulent or pubescent, axillary or lateral; main stalk scarcely 
longer than 5 mm. and nearly as thick, usually few-branch- 
ed at the distal end, the flower bearing ends 6 mm. thick 
and provided with bract-like rims; pedicels similarly pubes- 
cent, 5 mm. long; perianth thick and rigid, yellowish on 
the inner glabrous side, fulvous pubescent on the outer side, 
6 mm. long; the 3 oblongish segments united at the base 
and subtended by a broad bract; stamens 4 mm. long, 
gathered in a columnar cluster, the short thick stalk ciliate, 
the dark red connective exerted and terminated into a rounded 
point. 
Type specimen 11063, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
This beautiful nut-meg tree was collected in well drained 
porous soil of dry woods along the edge of the Baracatan 
creek ravine at 2000 feet. ''Lago" isthe Bagobo name. 
Related to M. philippinensis Lam. (M. bracteata longifolia 
DC.) based on Cuming 829 from the province of Tayabas, 
Luzon, and 1481 from the island of Mindoro. Our specimens 
have relatively broader leaves and entirely different stamin- 
ate inflorescence. Fruits on a near by tree were observed to 
be 5 cm. long and ellipsoid in shape. Again, our species 
can be recognized from M. guattariaefolia DC. by the dif- 
ferent staminate inflorescence. It is quite distinct yet related 
to M. mindanaensis Warb., collected at Taumu (Tauloma) a 
settlement between Davao and Daron. 
KNEMA Lour. 
Knema stenocarpa Warb. Monog. der Myrist. 577, 1897, 
Field-note for 10990:—Slender erect tree, in dry fertile 
soil of a wooded ridge bordering the upper cogon formation 
and the Baracatan ereek at 1500 feet; stem 3 inches thick, 
round, 15 feet high; branches from the middle, the main 
ones ascending, freely rebranched; wood moderately soft, with- 
out odor or taste, pale white; bark smooth, brown or mixed 
with gray blotches; leaves subcoriaceous, spreading, nearly 
flat, only the tips recurved, the edges more or less wand- 
