158 CXIV. MYRISTICACEH (STAPF). [Pycnanthus, | 
Species 2 to 5, endemic. 
Leaves with 20-35 lateral nerves on each side; 
tomentum of leaves ferruginous, of brown cande- 
labriform hairs. ; : Se - é 1, P. Kombo. 
Leaves with 40-60 lateral nerves on each side; tomen- 
tum of leaves very scanty (except when quite young), 
of minute whitish stellate hairs . 5 G . 2. P. microcephalus. 
1. P. Kombo, Ward. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. lxviii. 252 (partly, 
z.e., vars. angolensis and microcephalus). A tree, 30-120 ft. high; trunk up 
to 5 ft. indiam.; branches horizontal or somewhat drooping ; branchlets 
like all the young parts of the plant densely covered with a brownish- 
red velvety tomentum, formed of candelabriform hairs, at length more 
or less glabrescent. Leaves oblong, shortly cordate at the base, rather 
suddenly contracted into a fine and often long acumen, up to over 8 in. 
long, up to 3 in. wide; tomentum long-persistent on the midrib and 
nerves; midrib stout and prominent below; lateral nerves 20-35 on 
each side, much-spreading, slightly curved or almost straight, joined 
by short loops near the margin, slender, prominent below, distinctly 
showing up from the densely and very minutely papillose glaucous 
ground; transverse veins few, delicate; petioles stout, 3-4 lin. long, 
reddish tomentose. Male panicles axillary (often from the axils of fallen 
leaves), 3-6 in. long, 1-3 in. wide, brownish-red, velvety; peduncle 
4-2 in. long; rhachis and branches somewhat stout, flexuous; heads 
in compact lobed ovoid clusters on the short secondary branchlets, 
globose, 1 lin. in diam. Perianth shortly clavate-turbinate, 3- (some- 
times 4~-5-) fid, 4 lin. long, brownish-red, minutely papillose ; lobes 
obovate. Andreecium exserted; stipes slender, as long as or slightly 
longer than the perianth; anthers 3-5, not quite } lin. long. Female 
panicle unknown. Fruiting panicle rather robust, 4—5 in. long, with a 
flexuous rhachis and primary branches up to 2 in. long; pedicels 
1-2 lin. long. Fruit oblong- or subobovoid-ellipsoid, 1-1} in. long, 
8-10 lin. in diam.; pericarp green, at length glabrous, up to 2 lin. 
thick, sutural ridges prominent and acute in the young fruit, often 
obscure in the mature; aril fleshy, coloured, laciniate almost to the 
base. Seed dusky, 8-12 lin. long, 5-7 lin. in diam.; testa faintly 
longitudinally grooved; cotyledons thick.—Warb. Muskatnuss, 374, 
385, t. 4, fig. 9. P. microcephala, Warb. in Ber. Pharm. Gesellsch. 
Berlin, 1892, 222 (excel. syn.). P. Niohue, Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. 
Nat. Cur, Ixviii. 259 (the fruit only). Myristica Kombo, Baill. in Adans. 
ix. (1868), 79. MM. Niohwe, Baill. }.c. (the fruit only). MM. angolensis, 
Welw. in Syn. Expl. 51, No. 137 (name only); Ficalho, .Pl. Uteis, 
p- 246; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. i. 913. j 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Sherbro, Garrett! Afzelius! French Guinea: 
Longuery, Chevalier, 14779! Ivory Coast: Bingerville, Chevalier, 16058! Bour- 
sukron, Chevalier, 16101 bis! Gold Coast: between Amfoi and Alafanjo, Krause ! 
and without precise locality, Hvans! Togo: Lobots Mountain, near Alakgama, 
1600 ft., Dohring, 901! Sodo, near Alakgama, Dohring, 148! Busse, 3536! 
Southern Nigeria: Ibadan forest reserve, Punch, 126! Asaba, Leslie, 43! Akomu, 
Dodd, 402! Northern Nigeria: without precise locality, Elliott ! 
