238 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
main nerves 20 —30 pairs, prominent especially beneath, parallel, 
curving to close to the margin and then interarching; transverse 
nervules many, sub-parallel, prominent beneath; petiole very stout, 
1—1-5 cm. long, at first thickly rusty-flocculent afterwards glabrous. 
Flowers: 3 in clusters of from 6 to 9 from thick tubercles in the 
axils of fallen leaves nearly 1 cm. in diam., densely flocculent-woolly; 
pedicels 1—2 cm. long; bracteole broadly ovate, 2—3 mm. below the 
flowers, 5 mm. long; perianth obovoid, the teeth 3 broadly triangular, 
thick and fleshy, glabrous inside and longitudinally furrowed toward 
the base ; andrceecium on an obconic furrowed stalk, disk subconcave 
glabrous bearing on the margin 18—20 sessile curved anthers: 9 with 
shorter pedicels and broader teeth; ovary densely woolly, stigma 
subsessile, concave, with many irregular lobes. Fvuzt ellipsoid, 
4:5—8 cm. long, 3—4 em. thick, densely covered with a coating of 
dense silky fulvous wool, thicker than the crustaceous pericarp. 
Seed cylindric-ovoid; arillus thin, reniform, scarlet, completely en- 
veloping the testa. Myristica Hookeriana, Wall. Cat. 6802 A; Hook. 
f: & Th. Fl. Ind." V. 156: A. DC, Prodrisciws 7202. iigpe lyin: 
Bat. I. 2. 69, Suppl. 384; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 109; King Ann. 
Cale. IIT. 325, t. 163. 
Penance: Wallich 6802 A!; Government Hill, Maingay K.D. 
1279!; Curtis 202!, 2479!; Norris!. Prraxk: in hill forest near 
Goping and Larut at 120—240 m. alt., King’s Collector 57541, 6007), 
6656!. Matacca: Griffith K.D. 4342!. Srmvq@apore: Caniley 2904! ; 
T. Anderson 10!; Hullett 314!; at Bukit Timah, etc., Ridley 2109!, 
3701!.—Disrris. Borneo; Sumatra (at Ogan-Ulu, Palembang, T'eys- 
mann !). 
2. KnEMA CANntTLEYI, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 554, t. xxiv. (1897). 
A tree reaching 6—15 m. in height and 20—30 cm. in diam. of 
stem; branchlets moderately stout, pale reddish-brown with smooth 
bark, the young ones and innovations densely felted with rufous 
tomentum, the hairs branched. Leaves coriaceous; oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute at apex, subacute or rounded at base; upper 
surface shining, glabrous, lower glaucescent, glabrous when old, when 
yeung flocculently rufous-tomentose; margins slightly recurved. 
18—40 cm. long, 4—9 cm. broad; midrib prominent, raised on both 
surfaces; main nerves 15—20 pairs, raised above, curved to near the 
margin and then interarching, the lower in diminishing loops, the 
upper in single loops; transverse nervules subparallel, branching 
