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ed above the middle, constricted at the middle, densely deep 

 latericius on the exterior; ciliate hairs 0.5 to 1.5 mm. long, 

 short and divaricately spiculate; lobes ovately rotund, smooth 

 and iacarnatus on the ventral concave side, nearly 3 mm. long 

 and as wide at the base, the ventral apical portion somewhat ex- 

 tended into a point; ovary very thick, similarly but usually with 

 shorter hairs, 3 mm. across, ovoidly globose, terminated by 8 

 unequal digitately spreading glabrous stigmas, 1 -celled; the soli- 

 tary ovule erect from the base, not obovoidly elongted, 2.5 

 cm. long, fuzzy and dark latericius; seed black, covered by 

 a fleshy membrane which at the apex becomes lacerated and 

 apparently turning red upon maturity. 



Type specimen number 12757, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Discovered in humus covered soil with a gravelly subsoil 

 on the wooded banks of the Iwahig river at 250 feet altitude. 



Myristica umbellata Elm. n. sp. 



Small or medium sized tree; stem 12 m. high, 3 dm. 

 thick at least, subterete, more or less crooked; main 

 branches from above the middle; wood whitish, tinged with 

 red minute vessels, soft, light, without odor and taste; bark 

 relatively thick, ater gray, smooth or scaling in thin plates, 

 latericius except the epidermis; branches spreading, crooked, 

 numerously rebranched; the ultimate ones slender, lax, green, 

 ascendingly curved, glabrous. Leaves horizontal, the younger 

 ascending, the older descending, flat, coriaceous, deep green 

 and sublucid above, glabrous, green beneath, fumosus 

 when dry especially on the nether side, the obtuse apex 

 recurved, the base likewise obtuse, the smaller ones broadly 

 lanceolate, the longer oblong, the larger blades 4 cm. wide 

 at the middle and 14 cm. long, the entire edges curved 

 upon the under side, alternatingly scattered toward the ends 

 of the twigs; midrib brown and glabrous, ridged beneath 

 and fluted alwve; lateral nerves 9 to 11 on each side, oblique, 

 tips ascendingly curved, very faint on both sides, reticulations 

 none; petiole stout, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, deeply and widely 

 grooved along the upper side, also glabrous; bud bract brown, 

 glabrous or nearly so, subcompressed, recurved, slenderly pointed, 



