1062 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Art. 56 
moderately solid, odorless and tasteless; bark relatively thick, 
gray and brown mottled, shallowly checked, reddish brown 
beneath the epidermis and with a similarly colored juice. 
Leaves alternatingly scattered along the branchlets, ascending, 
more or less recurved toward the abruptly and sharply acute 
or acuminate tips, base short obtuse, coriaceous, lighter 
green beneath, glabrous, changing to a rich brown when dry, 
the medium blades 15 em. long by 7 cm. wide across the 
middle, elliptic or oblongish, margins entire and subinvolute 
in the dry state; midrib raised beneath, with 7 to 11 oblique 
lateral pairs whose tips are strongly arched and faintly 
united, reticulations obscure and mostly toward the margin, 
all smooth or glabrous and dark reddish brown when dry; 
petiole glabrous, nearly black, 1 cm. long, caniculate along 
ihe upper side. Flowers not seen; infrutescence lateral; stalks 
0.5 to 1 dm. long, sparingly branched from near the base, 
green, glabrous; fruits upon 5 to 8 mm. long pedicels, el- 
lipsoid, 2.5 cm. long, pale yellow, creased especially along 
one side; exocarp splitting open along the crease, with a 
fetid oil; nut convoluted and covered with an orange red 
‘integument. 
Type specimen 12297, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Discovered in shallow black soil underlaid with a red 
compact subsoil in a forested flat at 750 feet. Named in 
honor of Dr. Otto Warburg who monographed the Myristicaceae. 
The Visayan call it "'Lagase."' 
Not having staminate flowers there stil remains some 
doubt at to the genus. 
LJ 
Myristica guatteriaefolia DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. IV; 
t 4 p. 20. E 
Field-note:—Tree 35 feet high, with a 1.5 foot thick 
stem, in moist alluvial soil of a wooded flat near the Patoo 
river at 750 feet; branches few, comparatively short and 
sparsely rebranched, divaricately spreading; wood moderately 
hard, dull reddish brown, odorless and tasteless; bark dull 
brown, scaling in thin plates, deep reddish brown beneath 
