JANUARY 27, 1911] Notes oN MYRISTICACEAE 1065 
like, deep green above, glaucescent beneath, the main nerves 
yellowish green on the underside; flowers axillary; buds elong- 
ated; segments ascendingly spreading, brown as are the buds 
on the outside, red on the inner side; ovary brown, bearing 
a green stigma; fruit or nut ellipsoid, 0.5 inch long, yel- 
lowish brown. The Bagobo names are ''Libago" and ‘‘Lago.’’ 
Represented by numbers 10990, 10960 and 11935, Elmer, 
Todaya (Mt. Apo), Mindanao, June and October, 1909. 
The type is Warburg 13308, collected on Mindanao. The 
author declares it to have the identical foliage of K. hetero- 
phylla (Vil. Warb., but the fruits are much smaller and 
differently shaped. Still nearer it seems to be related to 
K. cinerea (Poir. Warb. which was collected on Tawi-Tawi 
island at the southwestern extremity of the Sulu archipelago. 
Apparently this same species is common in the Lake Lanao 
region of central Mindanao and is also definitely known from 
the Zamboanga peninsula. 
Knema gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
A slender erect tree; stem 15 cm. thick, 10 m. high, 
branched above the middle and forming an elongated crown; 
wood odorless and tasteless, dingy white, moderately hard; 
bark smoothish or scaling in thin irregular plates, dull brown 
or mottled, deep reddish brown beneath the epidermis, with 
a similarly colored sap; branches laxly rebranched, the ul- 
timate ones green and somewhat drooping, entirely glabrous, 
very dark brown when dry. Leaves descending, coriaceous, 
deep shining green on the upper nearly flat surface, glaucous 
beneath even when dry, glabrous, alternatingly scattered along 
the branchlets, oblong, acute to slenderly acuminate at apex, 
short obtuse or subrounded at the base, entire, the larger 
blades 2 dm. long by 4.5 em. wide across the middle; pet- 
iole 1.5 em. long, glabrous, dark reddish brown when dry; 
midrib very conspieuous beneath, with 15 to 17 oblique lat- 
eral pairs, cross bars minute and very obscure, the main 
nerves entirely glabrous and yellowish. Flowers fascicled upon 
short relatively thick and bracteated tubercles; pedicels aver- 
aging 5 mm. long, strict, bibracteate at the middle, fulvous 
seurfy or stellately puberulent; the perianth segments united 
