Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 243 
testa. Myristica glaucescens, Hook. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 157 non 
Knema glaucescens, Jack; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. III in part; King 
Ann. Calc. IIT. 323, t. 161. MM. corticosa, A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 205 
(in part); Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 69 (an part). 
PENANG: Curtis. PERAK: at Tapa Batang Padang, Wray 176!; 
in hilly forest up to 300 m. alt., King’s Collector 4352!, 5706!, 
5726!, 6128!, 7599!, 8541!, 10286!, 10594!. Manacca: Griffith 
K. D. 4843!; Maingay K. D. 1280!, 1280/2!, 1299!; Ridley 7122!; 
at Ayer Panas, Derry 1038!. Panane: at Kwala Brok, Ridley 2263!. 
StyGapore: at Bukit Timah, Cantley 20!; Garden jungle, etc., Ridley 
4136!, 4816!, 4817! —Distrais. Burma. 
7. KnemMA WRayt. Warb. Monog. Myrist. 572, t. xxiv. (1897), 
A tree reaching to 30 m. in height and 60—90 cm. in diam. of stem; 
branches spreading ; branchlets rather slender, glabrous, pale, striate. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous; narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute 
or subacute rarely acuminate at apex, rounded or subcuneate at 
base ; both surfaces glabrous, shining above, glaucous beneath ; 16— 
24 em. long, 6—9 cm. broad; midrib prominent beneath; main 
nerves 13—20 pairs, prominent beneath, parallel, nearly straight at 
at first, then curved along the margin but scarcely interarched ; 
transverse nervules very many, close, parallel, prominent, netted 
with the reticulation; petiole 10—i12 mm. long. Flowers: @ in 
many-flowered compound rusty-puberulous umbels from short woody 
axillary tubercles ; pedicels slender, 7—10 mm. long, bearing the 
small oblong pubescent bracteole above the middle; perianth in bud 
3—4 mm. in diam., subglobose, lobes 3—4 ovate, thick, ridged in- 
side; andreecium on a short stout stalk, disc subtriangular, flat or 
subconvex, anthers 13—17 on short filaments, horizontal: @ not 
known. fruit oblong-ovoid or ovoid 2°5—4:5 cm. long, 1—2°5 cm. 
broad, in axillary pedicellate pairs, cinereous, glabrescent, pericarp 
yellow. Seed oblong-ovoid or ovoid; arillus entire, thin, tough, 
completely enveloping the testa. King Ann. Calc. III. 315, t. 151. 
Perak: at Ulu Seding, Wray 2006! ; in forest up to 150 mm. alt., 
King’s Collector 5299!, 6514!, 6521!, 7475!, 8277!, 10#44!, 10691!. 
Stycapore: at Jurong, Ridley 3873!. 
8. KneMa conrerta, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 578, t. xxiv. (1897). 
A tree reaching 18—24 m. in height and 45—60 cm. in diam. of 
stem; branchlets rather stout, pale brown, striate, glabrous, the 
youngest densely covered with short stellate or branched rusty 
