Knema.] 
CXVII. MYRISTICACEAS. 
73 
very thick, 75 in. long. Flowers unknown. Fruit 2 to 3 on 
short tubercles, ovoid apiculate velvety dark brown, 2 to 3 in. 
long. Seed narrow, obovoid; aril very small embracing base 
only, much fimbriate. Hab. Perak, Gunong Bubu at 500 to 600 ft. 
altitude (Kunstler). Rare. 
Order CXVIII. MONIMIACE7E. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite (rarely alternate) entire (or 
serrate). Flowers uni- or bi-sexual, regular in cymes or racemes. 
Perianth inferior, globose, ovoid or depressed, 4-(to many-)toothed. 
Stamens 4 to 8 in 1- or 2-series on a disc lining the perianth-tube, 
included. Carpels many or 1, sessile on the disc or immersed; 
ovule solitary. Fruit a drupe enclosed in the disc or the receptacle. 
Species 250, chiefly S. American, but in all the tropics (Gamble, 
Journ. /Is, Soc. Beng. lxxv. 250). 
Stamens 4 . . . . . . . . .1. Matthjea 
Stamens 8 ......... 2. Kibara 
1. MATTH7EA, Blume. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite entire. Flowers fascicled 
in leaf axils or below the leaves. Perianth turbinate with 4 minute 
lobes at the nearly closed mouth at length circumsciss, the top 
dehiscent. Stamens 4 on the flat receptacle; filaments very 
short; anthers ovoid, 2-celled. Carpels many on the flattened 
receptacles of the female flower; style short conical. Drupe 
fleshy, pedunculate, one or more on the enlarged receptacle. 
Species 3 (according to Miss Perkins), probably only one. 
(1) M. sancta Bl. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 90, i. x; Gamble, 
l.c. 251. M. latifolia Perkins , Engl. Jahrb. xxv. 563. M. calophylla 
Perkins, l.c. 
Shrub about 8 ft. tall with chartaceous light green leaves 
oblong acuminate; nerves impressed above, lightly elevate beneath, 
inarching far from edge, 6 to 9 pairs; 5 to 875 in. long, 2-5 to 
3 in. wide; petioles *5 in. long. Flowers on pubescent pedicels, 
several in a fascicle, green, enlarging in fruit. Carpels very 
numerous, subulate pubescent. Drupe *5 in. long, olive-shaped, 
deep blue black, stalk -5 in. long, slender, 3 or 4 together, pendent 
Hab. Dry woods. Singapore, Ang Mokio; Garden Jungle; 
Bidadari. Johor, Bukit Soga. Pahang, Pramau River mouth. 
Malacca, Bukit Bruang. Perak, Gunong Haram (Scortechini) ; 
Thaiping (Kunstler), a tree 40 to 50 ft. tall. 
I am quite unable to separate Miss Perkins’ 3 species, and do not believe 
there is more than one here. Kunstler talks of it as a tree 40 to 50 ft. tall. 
All I have seen were stout few-branched shrubs usually under 8 ft. tall. 
