246 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
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Holmberg 773!. Stncarore: Cantley 69!; Murton 150!.—Distr1s. 
Sumatra (Forbes 2694!). 
10. KNEMA oBLOoNGIFOLIA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 586. t. xxiv. 
(1897). A-shrub or small tree reaching 12 m. or more in height, 
stem slender: branchlets slender, at first minutely scurfily rusty- 
tomentose, afterwards subglabrous, the bark pale brown. Leaves. 
membranous; oblong or oblong-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, rarely 
elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, truncate or cordate at 
base: upper surface glabrous, shining, lower dull, glaucous, when 
young with much loose stellate rufous hair; 15—40 cm. long, 4—10 
em. broad; midrib rather thick, prominent, impressed and keeled 
above; main nerves 20—28 pairs, spreading, parallel, sometimes 
distant, sometimes close, curved near the margin and the upper ones 
only interarching; transverse nervules rather obscure, subparallel ; 
reticulation obscure; petiole stout, 1 -2 cm. long, rufous-tomentose 
when young. Flowers: 3 in 4—12-flowered umbels from short, 
woody, axillary tubercles; pedicels 5—10 mm. long, bearing the 
minute bracteole at the summit; perianth in bud obovoid or sub- 
urceolate, obtuse. 4 mm. long, 3 mm. in diam., lobes 3 broadly 
triangular, ribbed and glabrous within; andreecium on a long cylin- 
dric stalk, as long as the tube, disc very small, concave; anthers 
6—10, sessile, suberect on the disc margin: 9@ sessile, in short but 
stoutly pedunculate 4—6-flowered axillary umbels; buds ovoid, 
lobes of perianth ovate blunt, glabrous within; ovary sessile, ovoid- 
conic, rusty-tomentose; style short; stigma of 2 rounded compressed 
lobes. Fruit in pairs or solitary, axillary, shortly peduncled, obovoid’ 
or ovoid, slightly pointed, sharply ridged, 3—3°5 cm. long, 2—2°5 cm. 
in diam.; pericarp thin, densely covered with harsh short rusty 
tomentum; peduncle 4mm. Jong. Seed ovoid, mottled ; arillus thin, . 
deeply lobed, covering only the lower half of the testa. Myristica 
oblongifolia, King Ann. Calc. IIT. 313, t. 148. 
PENANG: on rocky ground at about 250 m., King’s Collector 
1372!; Curtis 1044!. Prrax: in forest on low ground and up to 250° 
m., King’s Collector 835!, 4534!, 5983!, 8645!. Srntancor: Pahang 
Track, Ridley 8504!; Ginting Bidai, Ridley 7627!. Matacca: at 
Ayer Panas, Derry 1038!. Sryeapore: Garden jungle, Rrdley!. 
Var. monticola, King. Leaves smaller, 15—25 cm. long, subacute 
or rounded at base, the nerves fewer, the petiole more slender. 
Flowers: 3 almost sessile on elongated tubercles, the stalk of the- 
andrcecium longer. A hill variety. 
