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6—9 erect sessile anthers: 2 in umbels on tubercles asin ¢; ovary 
sessile, depressed-globose, densely rufous-tomentose ; style 0, or very 
short; stigma 2-lobed, the lobes patent, toothed. Fruit ovoid or 
ellipsoid, 2°5—3 cm. long, 1°5—2 cm in diam.; pericarp leathery, 
densely covered with coarse rufous tomentum. Seed ellipsoid; arillus 
thin, red, entire, completely enveloping the testa. Myristica laurina, 
BI. Rumph. I. 189, t. 61; DeVriese Pl. Reinw. 96; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
I. 2. 71 and Suppl. 385; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 112 (excluding spec. 
Maingay) ; King Ann. Calc. III. 319, t. 156; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. 
IV. 186. M. tomentosa, Bl. (non Thunb.) Bijdr. 577. 
Penance: Pulau Boetong Reserve, Curtis 1191!; Moniot’s road, 
Curtis 2457!. PERak: Waterloo. Curtis 2728!; at Haram Parah, 
etc., Scortechini 54!, 830!, 831!; in thick forest at 100—300 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 4807!, 5092!, 7452!, 7686!. Manacca: at Bukit 
Panchur and Batu tiga, Derry 485!, 979!; at Sungei Hudang, Ridley 
1800!. Sryeaporn: Ridley 2044!—Distris. Java, Sumatra, Bor- 
neo, etc. 
14. Knema RETUSA, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 642, t. xxv. (1897). 
A tree, reaching 12—18 m. in height and 40—50 cm. in diam. of 
stem; branchlets stout, striate, pale brown and cinereous when dry. 
Leaves very large, coriaceous; oblong, elliptic-oblong or -obovate, 
obtuse or retuse at apex, rounded or subcordate at base; upper 
surface glabrous, shining, lower pale brown or whitish from a uniform 
layer of dense minute cinnamomeous hairs; margins recurved; 35— 
55 cm. long, 14—21 cm. broad; midrib stout, impressed above; 
main nerves 16-—-24 pairs, spreading subhorizontally and straight 
near the base, gradually more and more curved towards the apex 
and interarching ; transverse nervules many, subparallel, prominent 
above; petiole stout, 1—2 cm. long. Flowers not known. Frutt 
2—3 together on short thick tubercules from the scars of fallen 
leaves, ovoid, apiculate, gibbous on one side at the base, 5—6 cm. 
long, 5 cm. in diam.; pericarp thick, minutely rufous-tomentose. 
Seed narrowly obovoid, smooth; arillus very small, merely embracing 
the base of the seed, thin, much fimbriate. Myristica retusa, King 
Ann. Calc. III. 330, t. 171. 
PERAK: in dense jungle, Gunong Bubu range, 150—250 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 7690 !. 
