166 CXIV. MYRISTICACEEH (STAPF). [ Staudtia. 
valves slightly raised. Seed 10 lin. long, 6 lin. in diam. ; aril dentate at 
the apex.—Myristica Niohue, Baill. Adansonia, ix. 79, partly. Pycnan- 
thus Niohwe, Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. Ixvili. 259, partly. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 565! and without precise 
locality, Klaine, 565B ! 
Myristica Niohue, Baill., and Pyenanthus Niohue, Warb., were, according to 
Warburg, based on mixtures of Staudtia gabonensis (leaf-branches) and Pycnanthus 
Kombo (fruit), collected by Griffon du Bellay (No. 5) and Duparquet (No. 74). 
Imperfectly known species. 
4. S. pterocarpa, Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. \xviii. 248, 
t. 8 (sub Brochoneura pterocarpa). Fruit ovoid or obovoid, 23-3 in, long, 
13-2 in. in diam., with or without sharply raised sutural ridges; pericarp 
2 lin. thick; aril “ capsuliform” (Welwitsch), entire, covering the whole 
seed, truncate, fleshy or subcoriaceous, scarlet, at length deliquescent. 
Seed ovoid or obovoid, 2-2} in. long, 14 in. in diam.; testa yellowish, 
streaked with brown, }-,3; lin. thick. Cotyledons thick, large.—Warb. 
Muskatnuss, 386, t. 4, fig. 11. Myristica macrocarpa, Welw. ex Christy, 
New. Comm. Drugs, No. 8 (1885), 27; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i, 914. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, in forest, Welwitsch ! 
5. CEPHALOSPHRA, Warb. in Engl. Jabrb. xxxiii. 383. 
Male flower: Perianth subglobose, 3-4-fid. Filaments united into 
a long exserted column ; anthers 3—4, adnate to the column and shorter 
than its stipes. Female flower: Perianth unknown. Fruit large; 
pericarp thick, fleshy ; aril laciniate. Seed ovoid; testa thick, woody ; 
endosperm not ruminate, replete with fat and starch ; cotyledons con- 
nate at the base, suberect, not diverging.—Leaves chartaceous, glau- 
cous below, glabrous; lateral nerves interarching ; arches distant from 
the margin; veins forming a faint network. Inflorescences panicled 
with large mostly distant flower-heads; bracts present ; bracteoles none. 
Species 1, in East Africa. 
1. C. usambarensis, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 383, A tree 
160 ft. high, with dark branchlets, fulvo-pubescent at their tips when 
young. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong, gradually attenuate and 
acute at both ends, 4—5 in.tlong, 2 in. broad, dark green above, glaucous 
or almost silver-grey below; midrib prominent below; lateral nerves 
15-20 on each side, slender, but distinct. Male panicles axillary (some- 
times from the axils of fallen leaves), 24-3 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, ferru- 
ginous-puberulous; peduncle under 1 in. long; lower branches about 
1 in. long, ultimate divisions very short; heads globose, 24-3} lin. in 
diam. Perianth 1 lin. in diam., ferruginous-tomentellous without ; lobes 
broad-ovate, obtuse. Fruit with fleshy greyish-green pericarp; aril 
reddish yellow, thick. Seed almost 2 in. long and 1 in. in diam.; testa 
yellowish brown, shining ; chalaza subterminal; raphe very much im- 
