242 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
short cylindric stalk, disc flat glabrous; anthers 9—12 horizontal, 
with short filaments attached to the edge of the disc: 9 not known, 
ovary sessile, ovoid, rugulose; style very short glabrous; stigma 
with 3 short spreading conical lobes. Fruit usually solitary, yellow, 
sometimes in clusters of 2—3, pedunculate, 20—22 mm. long, 15—17 
mm. in diam., broadly ovoid-globose, slightly apiculate, ferruginous- 
puberulous when young, afterwards glabrescent. Seed broadly ovoid, 
smooth; arillus red, thin, slightly lobed at the apex, completely 
enveloping the testa. Myristica Kunstleri, King Ann. Calc. IIT. 
314, t. 149. 
Perak: Maxwell’s Hill at 900 m. alt., Curtis 2051!; Scorte- 
chinit 175!; at Gunong Keledang, Ridley 9587!; at Waterfall Hill 
and Blanda Mabok, Wray 2056!, 3985!; in hilly forests at various 
elevations up to 600 m. alt., King’s Collector (Kunstler) 2614!, 
2743!, 3372!, 3393!, 3510!, 4150!, 4216!, 4414!, 4605!, 4949), 
5867!, 6440!, 7180!, 10022!, 10549!, 10826!. Smnancor: at Kwala 
Lumpur, Ridley 3538 !. 
6. KNEMA MALAYANA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 570, t. xxv. (1897). 
A tree reaching 9—21 m. in height and 25—30 cm. in diam. of stem; 
branches spreading or drooping; branchlets rather slender, minutely 
rufous-pubescent when young. finally glabrous, dark and striate. 
Leaves membranous; narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, sub- 
acute or obtuse at apex, rounded or subcuneate at base: upper 
surface glabrous, shining, lower glaucescent ; 9—15 cm. long, 3°5-—6. 
em. broad; midrib slender, keeled above; main nerves 13—18 pairs, 
spreading, prominent beneath, parallel, interarching near the margin ; 
transverse nervules subparallel, prominent, enclosing the netted 
reticulation; petiole nearly 1 cm. long, slender. Flowers: 3 in 
almost sessile axillary 5- to 8 flowered rusty-puberulous umbels from 
axillary or lateral tubercles; pedicels slender, 12—15 mm. long, 
bearing the minute bracteole above the middle; perianth in bud 
depressed-globose, bluntly 3-angled, 3 mm. in diam., lobes 3, broadly 
ovate, fleshy, striate and glabrous within; andrcecium on a short 
stalk thickened upwards, the disc flattened bearing 10—12 anthers 
radially on the margin: 2 in fewer-flowered umbels than ¢ , obovoid 
in bud; ovary sessile ovoid-globose, style short; stigma peltate, 
glabrous, with 4 acute lobes. Fruit small, ovoid or slightly obovoid, 
narrowed at the base, 12—14 mm. long, 9—11 mm. in diam., 
minutely rusty-tomentose. Seed ovoid-rotund, sessile, smooth; 
arillus thin, reniform, irregularly fimbriate at apex, enveloping the 
