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mately glabrous, with two obscure ridges decurrent from the leaf- 
bases. Leaves pergamaceous; oblong lanceolate, subacuminate at 
apex, cuneate or rounded at base; upper surface shining, lower 
glaucescent, when young golden rusty-tomentose; 8—14 cm. long, 
2°5—4:5 cm. broad; midrib slender, main nerves 12—16 pairs, thin 
but prominent beneath, spreading, curving near the margin and 
rather obscurely interarching: transverse nervules irregular, obscure 
as is the reticulation ; petiole about 1 cm. long, slender, dark, chan- 
nelled. Flowers: 3 in 3—4-flowered sessile umbels on short axillary 
tubercles; pedicel slender, 6 mm. long, the bracteole above its 
middle; perianth in bud subglobose, rufous-puberulous, 3 mm. in 
diam., lobes 3, subacute, glabrous and striate within ; andrcecium on 
a short glabrous stalk, the disc flat, glabrous, with 9—10 sessile 
radiate anthers on its margin, curving upwards: 2 not known. 
Fruit axillary, usually in pairs, often solitary, ellipsoid or ovoid, 
blunt at apex, narrowed at base, ridged at the sides, 2—2°5 cm. 
long; pericarp thin. Seed shining; arillus thin, fleshy, entire, slightly 
laciniate below the apex. Mvyristica geminata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
Suppl. 385, Ann. I. 207; King Ann. Calc. ITI. 322, t. 160. 
PENANG ?: Curtis 3679!. PERAK: at Kurow, Scortechini 1527!. 
JOHORE: at Gunong Palai, G. King!.—Distris. Burma, Sumatra 
{Forbes 2911!). 
13. KnemMa LauRINA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 606, t. xxiv. 
(1897). A tree reaching 12—20 m. in height and 30—45 cm. in diam. 
of stem; branchlets rather stout, pale brown, faintly striate, the 
youngest harshly rufous-tomentose. Leaves chartaceous; oblong or 
oblong-obovate or -oblanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, rounded 
or subcordate, often unequally, at base; upper surface shining, 
glabrous, lower surface tomentose, thickly on the nerves, sparsely on 
the parenchyma between them, hairs stellate; margin slightly 
recurved; 10—30 cm. long, 4-10 cm. broad; midrib rather slender, 
raised above; main nerves 12—24 pairs, parallel, impressed above, 
spreading, curved near the margin and more or less interarching; 
transverse nervules thin, subparallel, enclosing the minutely netted 
areolation; petiole about -1 cm. long, thick, rufous-tomentose. 
Flowers: @ in dense, axillary, rufous-tomentose, many-flowered 
umbels on thick tubercles; pedicel 2—3 mm. long, bearing under the 
perianth the rather large ovate bracteole; perianth in bud obovoid, 
3—4 mm. long, 3-lobed; andreecium long-stalked, the stalk widening 
afterwards, striate, 2mm. long, disc small, glabrous, concave, bearing 
