cxvit. myristicace^e. 
Knema.] 
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Style short, thick; stigmas connate in a bilobed often toothed or 
laciniate disc. Fruit oblong or ovoid, tomentose red-scurfy or 
eventually glabrescent; pericarp fairly thick. Aril laciniate at 
tip only. Species 38, India to Philippines. 
Male flowers very large, red yellow, woolly outside, 
red inside. 
Leaves very large, thickly woolly when young; 
fruit thick woolly 
Flowers moderate, - 2 in. across; leaves smaller; 
fruit smaller .... 
Flowers small, under *2 in. across. 
Disc of androecium mammillate .... 
Disc of androecium not mammillate. 
Pedicel of male flower more than twice as long 
as perianth. 
Anthers 40 to 45; leaves small 
Anthers under 20 on short filaments on edge 
of flat disc. 
Anthers 9 to 12. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous; nerves 
7 to 14 pairs .... 
Leaves membranous; nerves 13 to 18 
pairs ...... 
Anthers 8 to 18. 
Branchlets nearly glabrous; nervules 
obscure ...... 
Branchlets roughly pubescent; nerv¬ 
ules strong. 
Pedicel of male flower twice as long as perianth 
or less. 
Leaves adult, glabrous beneath. 
Leaves cordate; anthers 10 to 12 . 
Leaves- cordate; anthers 6 to 10, disc 
very small ..... 
Leaves not cordate; flowers in an umbel 
of 8. 
Leaves not cordate; flowers 3 to 4 in 
umbel ....... 
Adult leaves stellate-hairy beneath ; 
stamens 6 to 9 
Leaves very large, silvery pubescent 
beneath; coriaceous; fruit 2 in. long 
or more , . 
(1) K. Hookeriana 
(2) K. Cantleyi 
(3) K. intermedia 
(4) K. Curtisii 
(5) K. Kunstleri 
(6) K. malayana 
(7) K. Wrayi 
(8) K. conferta 
(9) K. furfuracea 
(10) K. oblongifolia 
(n) K. missionis 
(12) K. geminata 
(13) K. laurina 
(14) K. retusa 
(1) K. Hookeriana Warb. Monog. Myrist. 251, t, xxiv; Gamble, 
lx. 237. Myristica Hookeriana Wall. Cat. 6802A; King, Ann. Bot. 
Gard. Calc. iii. 325, t. 163. 
A small tree up to 30 ft. tall; branchlets thick covered with 
dense brown wool. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or 
oblanceolate blunt or sub-acute, base round; young flaccid covered 
with thick brown wool; adult glabrous, glaucous beneath; nerves 
20 to 30 pairs, prominent beneath, midrib stout; 2 ft. long, 4 in. 
across; petioles very thick, -5 in. long. Male flowers in clusters 
of 6 to 9 on thick tubercles densely woolly, -2 in. long. Perianth 
obovoid; teeth 3, broad triangular, glabrous, bright pink inside. 
