JaNuaRY 27, 1911) Notes ON MYRISTICACEAE 1061 
not 15 to 18 on a side, and whose tips are not arcuately 
united; neither do the young twigs turn to a reddish brown 
color nor are they at any time pubescent. The type of the 
former is from Guimaras island, of the latter from the is- 
land of Marinduque. 
HORSFIELDIA Willd. 
Horsfieldia ardisiaefolia (DC.) Warb. Monog. der Myrist. 
274, 1897. Myristica ardisiaefolia DC. Ann. Sc. Nat. IV; t. 4, 
p. 384. 
Field-note for 11337:—4 medium-sized tree, in a moist 
alluvial flat of light woods along the Sinuban creek at about 
500 feet; stem 1 foot thick, 20 feet high or higher, branched 
above the middle; wood rather soft, white, without odor or 
taste; bark gray, thinly checked longitudinally, that portion 
beneath the epidermis reddish brown; branches divaricate, 
slender, sparingly rebranched, the ultimate ones green and 
longitudinally 3-ridged; leaves horizontal or slightly recurved, 
more or less folded upon the upper shining green surface, 
much paler beneath, the midvein yellowish green, subchar- 
taceous; inflorescence axillary, ascending, all the stalks green, 
the buds deep dull olive green; flowers subpendulous, slightly 
fragrant, lemon yellow, flattish, opening into 2 parts; anther 
in a flattened elongated column attached to the center; the 
fruits are 1.25 inch long by 0.75 inch thick a trifle below 
the middle, creased, orange red. 
Represented by numbers 12337 staminate and 12067 in 
fruit, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April 
and March, 1910. 
Based upon 1702 Cuming from the island of Samar, and 
has a wide distribution in the Philippines. 
Horsfieldia warburgiana Elm. n. sp. 
Slender tree; stem 3 dm. thick, at least 10 m. high, 
terete, its branches mainly at the top, divaricately spreading, 
the glabrous brown colored branchlets horizontally spreading; 
wood dirty white on the outside, brownish toward the center, 
