March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2775 



Manobo companion who as readily named the other specimens 

 "Bantolinau." They represent the same species. 



This is Myristica cumingii Warb. rather than Myristica 

 agusanensis Elm. Chief differences from the former species 

 are the larger fruit which is more nearly globose in shape 

 and both kinds of flowers without the lengthened common 

 stalk. 



Myristica agusanensis Elm. n. sp. 



Only an ordinary sized tree; trunk terete, at least 3 dm 

 thick, 12 m high, wadded at the base, mainly branched 

 toward the top; wood soft and light in weight, whitish but 

 after being cut exuding a dark blood colored sap or juice, 

 entirely without odor or taste; bark thick, dark reddish 

 brown and with a similarly colored sap, epidermis scaling 

 in small plates; branches laxly rebranced, heavy, the slend- 

 er twigs green and somewhat drooping, terete, glabrous, dull 

 , reddish brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, alter- 



nate and quite numerous, folded along the upper lucid side, 

 glaucous green beneath, curing unequally brown on its 2 

 sides, the acute to acuminate apex recurved, base obtusely 

 rounded, entire margins more or less rugulose, oblong, the 

 larger lamina 15 cm long by 4.5 cm wide at or a trifle 

 below the middle; midrid ridged beneath and brown when 

 dry, plane above except toward the base; lateral nerves 13 

 to 15 pinnate pairs, their tips disappearing, relatively faint, 

 cross bars or reticulations none; petiole nearly 2 cm long, 

 glabrous, dark brown, plane along the upper side, ascendingly 

 curved, young or bud leaves light yellowish pubescent es- 

 pecially on the nether side. Flowers not observed. Fruits 

 solitary or in pairs, mostly axillary, ellipsoid, 3.5 cm long 

 one side, hanging, fulvus brown but not pubescent, smooth; 

 exocarp thick, longitudinally separating; nut ellipsoid, covered 

 and impressed with deep red cartilaginous strands from the 

 base to the apex, shining; stalks 1 to 3 cm long, greenish in 

 the fresh state, otherwise blackish brown, flexible when young, 

 occasionally short branched. 



Type specimen number 13284, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadba- 

 ran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 



