6$ CXVii. myristicace^. [Knema. 
Androecium stalk conic; disc with 18 to 20 sessile anthers. Female 
teeth broader; ovary woolly. Fruit ellipsoid, 2 in. long, covered 
with dense yellow brown wool; pericarp crustaceous. Seed 
cylindric ovoid; aril thin covering it, red. Hab. Common in 
lowland forest, Singapore, Garden Jungle; Bukit Timah. Malacca 
(Griffith). Perak, Goping (Kunstler). Penang Hill (Curtis, 
Wallich). Lankawi, Gunong Raya (Haniff). Distrib. Sumatra. 
(2) K. Cantleyi Warb. Monog. Myrist. 554, t, xxiv. Myristica 
Cantleyi Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. no; King, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. 
iii. 327, L 168. 
Tree 40 to 50 ft. tall; branehlets rather stout, dense woolly 
brown. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate acute, 
base round, scurfily brown tomentose when young, especially on 
nerves, eventually glabrous; nerves 15 to 20 pairs; 9 in. long, 
2 to 4-5 in. wide; petioles rather thick, -5 in. long. Male flowers 
in sessile umbels on tubercles; pedicels thick, *2 in. long, all 
densely brown felted. Perianth globose-ovoid trigonous, brown- 
woolly outside, green inside, lobes 3. Androecium with peltate 
disc surrounded by radiating anthers 13 to 15 on short filaments. 
Female in smaller clusters; stigma large with 12 or more lobes. 
Fruit ellipsoid blunt, red-tomentose, about 1 in. long. Seed 
obovate pointed; aril covering it. Hab. Forests, Singapore, 
Bukit Timah (Cantley). Selangor, Klang Gates (Burn-Murdoch); 
Weld’s Hill; Menuang Gasing (Kloss). Perak, Larut (Kunstler); 
Thaiping (Wray). Penang, Pulau Betong (Curtis). 
(3) K. intermedia Warb. Monog. Myrist. 564, t. xxv; Gamble, 
l.c . 239. M. intermedia Bl. Rumphia, i. 187; King, Ann. Bot. 
Gard. Calc. iii. 318, t. 154. 
Small tree up to 50 ft. tall; young branches scurfy thin-tomen- 
tose. Leaves coriaceous, narrow oblong-lanceolate or oblong 
acute, rusty-pubescent when young, glabrous glaucescent beneath 
when adult, on branch ends small 4*5 in. long, 1 in. wide, to 8 in. 
long and 3-5 in. wide, finely reticulate with 12 to 22 nerves; 
petioles *5 in. long. Male flowers clustered 6 to 9 on tubercles; 
pedicels *2 in. long, scurfy-red. Perianth obovoid, teeth broad 
triangular, fleshy, white inside. Androecium pink, stalk short; 
anthers 12 to 15. Female similar but sessile; perianth obovoid. 
Ovary tomentose. Fruit ellipsoid minutely red-tomentose, 1-6 in. 
long. Seed ellipsoid; aril completely covering it, laciniate or 
entire. Hab. Common in forests, Singapore, Bukit Timah; Garden 
Jungle; Changi. Johor, Tempayan River. Malacca, Pulau Besar 
(Fox); Merlimau (Derry); Selandor (Cantley). Perak, Batu 
Togoh (Wray); Haram Parah (Scortechini). Penang Hill (Curtis). 
Distrib. Java, Sumatra, Borneo. Native name: Pendarah Kikeh. 
The leaves vary much in size and shape in different parts of the tree, 
but the variety dubia Warb. Penang, Wallich 6810 is absolutely typical 
and the commonest form. Very woolly diseased flower tufts often occur 
on the branches. 
