xiii, c, 5 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants 281 



Catanduanes, in forests along small streams back of Calolbong, Bur. 

 Sci. 30370 Ramos, December 9, 1917. 



This species is well characterized by its subcoriaceous leaves, which are 

 densely foveolate and minutely puberulent on the lower surface and deeply 

 cordate at the base, the sinuses being narrow and the broad rounded 

 lobes usually overlapping. It belongs in the same general group as 

 Aristolochia tagala Cham., but is not closely allied to that species or to 

 any other known to me. 



MYRISTICACEAE 



MYRISTICA Linnaeus 



MYRISTICA MINDORENSIS sp. nov. 



Species M. cumingiae Warb. valde affinis, differt foliis minori- 

 bus, usque ad 13 cm longis, 4 cm latis, nervis lateralibus paucio- 

 ribus, circiter 7 utrinque, floribus paullo majoribus. 



A tree about 14 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence and 

 the terminal buds. Branches reddish-brown, terete, rugose 

 when dry, the lenticels few. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, firmly 

 membranaceous or subcoriaceous, brown and somewhat shining 

 when dry and of about the same color on both surfaces, 7 to 

 13 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, widest at about the middle, about 

 equally narrowed at both ends, the base acute, the apex acumi- 

 nate; nerves 7 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, 

 prominent beneath, obscurely anastomosing, -the reticulations 

 subobsolete; petioles 1 to 1.4 cm long, rather slender. Staminate 

 inflorescence axillary, the flowers fasciculate on short, stout, 

 solitary, unbranched, or sometimes shortly forked, axillary, 

 pubescent tubercles, 3 to 4 mm long and nearly as thick, each 

 bearing from two to five flowers; pedicels about 2.5 mm long, 

 pubescent, with a large, broad, 3 mm wide, and about 2 mm 

 long, bracteole immediately below the flower. Staminate flow- 

 ers oblong-ovoid, 5 to 6 mm long, 3-merous, pubescent outside, 

 the lobes oblong-ovate, about 2.5 mm long, obtuse or acute. 

 Anthers about 10, entirely united into a cylindric column about 

 3 mm long, 1 mm in diameter, the stipe about as thick as the 

 anther-column, 1 mm long. Pistillate flowers and fruits un- 

 known. 



Mindoro, Cauayan, For. Bur. S698 Merritt, March, 1906. 

 A species manifestly closely allied to Myristica cumingii Warb. but with 

 quite different vegetative characters. 



MYRISTICA DISCOLOR sp. nov. 



Species M. simiarum A. DC. affinis, differt foliis subtus 

 pallidis, floribus $ duplo majoribus, circiter 7 mm longis. 



A tree, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches terete, 

 wrinkled, brownish when dry, slender, the branchlets nearly 



