240 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
globose, subtrigonous, 4—7 mm. in diam., lobes triangular-ovate, 
glabrous and striate within; androecium convex-mammillate at top, 
the stalk very short, the disk radiating; anthers 12—15: 9 in axil- 
lary umbels similar to 3 but sessile, the bracteole embracing the 
perianth-; perianth obovoid, lobes 3, acute; ovary ovoid, densely 
rufous-tomentose; stigma sessile with 6—8 short suberect narrow 
lobes. Fruit usually solitary, rarely in clusters of 2—3, 3-5—4 cm. 
long, 2 cm. in diam., ellipsoid, grooved on one side, covered with a 
thin layer of minute rufous tomentum. Seed ellipsoid, elongate, 
subrugose; arillus thin, entire or shortly laciniate towards the apex, 
completely enveloping the testa. Myristica intermedia, Bl. Rumph. 
1. 187; Hook: f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 158; AD WCF Prodi: 206; 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 70; Ann. I. 207; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
V. 112; King Ann. Calc. III. 318, t. 154; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. IV. 
192. M. iteophylla, Miq. l.c. 59. M. corticosa, Hook. f. & Th. var. 
decipiens, Miq. Ann. II. 57. 
PENANG: Government Hill, etc., Curtis 1044!, 3402!; Waterfall 
Gardens, Ridley 10786!. PrRrak: at Batu Togoh, etc., Wray 2130!; 
3010!; at Haram Parah, Scortechini 631!, 803! ; in dense forest on low 
ground up to 120 m. alt., King’s Collector 5419!, 6146!, 6371!, 6704!, 
7576!. Matacca: Griffith K.D. 4359! (with diseased ¢ flower); 
Maingay K.D. 1281!; Caniley 525!. Sineapore: at Bukit Timah, 
Cantley 29!, 83!; Lobb!; at Tanglin, Hullett 5739!; Ridley 1820!, 
7203!, 2039!, 2107!,9222!.—Distris. Java (Koorders!, Forbes 542!, 
etc.), Sumatra (forbes 2573!), Borneo (Korthals), etc. 
Var. dubia, Warb. Leaves broader, the transverse nervules very 
slender; branchlets, petioles and flowers densely furfuraceous. 
Penane: Wallich 6810!. 
4. KnEma Curtisir, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 567, t. xxv. (1897). 
A tree, all parts glabrous except the minutely puberulous leaf-buds 
and 3 flowers; branchlets slender with greyish bark, uppermost 
light brown sometimes becoming nearly black. Leaves thinly coriace- 
ous; elliptic, elliptic-ovate or -obovate, acute or subacuminate at 
apex, acute at base; upper surface shining, olivaceous when dry. 
lower dull, subglaucous; margin slightly recurved; 6—14 cm. long, 
3—6 cm. broad; midrib slender; main nerves 9—16 pairs, slightly 
curved to interarch near the margin; secondary nerves few, trans- 
verse nervules irregularly subparallel, enclosing the prominent . 
minutely netted reticulation; petiole about 1 cm. long, slender. 
