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I have followed Warburg in reducing King’s M. Scortechinii to a variety of 
M. conferta, but I cannot help feeling alittle doubt in the matter. It is pos- 
sible that further investigation on the spot will restore it to specific rank. 
9. KneMA FURFURACEA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 581, t. xxiv. 
(1897). A tree reaching 18—24 m. in height and 60—90 cm. diam. 
of stem; branchlets stout, the younger ones densely covered with a 
thick furfuraceous tawny tomentum, the older glabrous with black 
bark much cracked. Leaves coriaceous; narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate at apex, cordate at base; upper surface shining, 
pale brown when dry, lower dull, reddish-glaucescent, glabrous 
except on the midrib beneath; 10—50 cm. long, 3—13 cm. broad ; 
midrib stout, broad at base, prominent, often rusty-tomentose 
beneath; main nerves 18—36 pairs, prominent, parallel, at first 
straight, then curved to and along the margin but scarcely inter- 
arching; transverse nervules subparallel, distinct, enclosing the 
rather obscure reticulation; petiole very stout, 10—14 mm. long, at 
first densely rusty-tomentose, afterwards glabrous. Flowers: 3 in 
6 —8-flowered densely rusty-pubescent umbels from woody tubercles 
in the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves; pedicels 7—10 mm. 
long, bearing the minute bracteole about the middle; perianth in 
bud obtusely trigonous subglobose, 4—5 mm. in diam., divided into 
3 blunt triangular teeth, glabrous inside; andrcecium on a stout 
obconic furrowed stalk, the disc circular or slightly 3-angled, anthers 
10—13 on the disc margin, curving upwards so as to open vertically : 
2 in fewer-flowered umbels, sessile, the bracteole at the base of the 
perianth, obovoid, 7—8 mm. long, with 3 teeth; ovary sessile, 
globose, densely rufous-tomentose, stigma sessile, concave, many- 
toothed. Fruit subglobose at first and densely rufous-tomentose, 
when ripe ovoid or ellipsoid, blunt, 2°5—3-5 cm. long, pericarp thick. 
Seed elliptic or oblong; arillus thin, completely enveloping the whole 
of the testa except at the extreme apex where it is divided into 5 or 
6 narrow lobes. Myristica furfuracea, Hook. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 159; 
A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 206; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 70; Hook. f. Fl. 
Br. Ind. V. 112; King Ann. Calc. III. 318, t. 155. M. longifolia, 
Hook. f. & Th. l.c. 156 (the Malayan material). 
PENANG: Porter!; Phillips !; various places, Curtis 1459 !, 2456!, 
2769!, 2827!. Perak: in dense forest from the plain up to 360 m. 
-alt., King’s Collector 5600!, 5720!, 5819!, 6025!, 6059!, 6515!, 
7551!, 10349!. Matacca: Griffith K.D. 4346!; Maingay K.D. 
2287!, 1288!; at Tubong, Goodenough 2001!; at Batu Tigali, 
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