January 27, 1911] Nores ON MYyRISTICACEAE 1063 
the epidermis, with a similarly colored sap; twigs dull green, 
the younger portion covered with a cinnamon brown felt; 
leaves coriaceous, horizontal or descending, deep sublucid 
green on the upper shallowly folded side, beneath usually 
covered with a fulvous pulverulence, the veins yellowish 
green, tips recurved, margins or sides very coarsely wavy; 
fruits densely covered with a felt-like integument, ellipsoid, 
2 inches long, nearly 1.5 inch across the middle, arranged 
. along the branchlets and set upon 0.5 to 1.5 inch long rather 
thick and similarly covered stalks. ''Dugad" is the local 
Visayan name. 
Represented by number 12228, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
The type is based on Cuming, 1582 not 1585 as Warburg 
cites it, and was collected in the province of Batangas, 
Luzon. Known from nearly all the larger islands of the 
Philippines and from northern Borneo. 
Myristica plumeriaefolia Elm. n. sp. 
Slender tree, 10 m. high or higher, with a 3 dm. 
thick stem; main branches from the middle, forming an 
elongated crown, rather slender, not numerously rebranch- 
ed; wood moderately hard and brittle, white with yellow- 
ish streaks, rather light, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth- 
ish or roughened with small lenticels, yellowish red beneath 
the epidermis and freely bleeding with a similarly colored juice. 
Leaves alternate, mostly toward the ends of the dark pul- 
verulent twigs, heavy, very rigid, deep dull green and glabrous 
above, descending or the younger ones ascending, nearly flat, be- 
neath grayish or copper brown pulverulent, the entire margins 
recurved in the dry brown state, oblong with the upper one 
more gradually tapering to an acuminate point, 2 to 4 dm. 
long, 10 to 15 cm. wide across the middle or a trifle be- 
low it, base rounded, bluntly obtuse; midrib thick and 
stout, glabrous, with 19 to 23 ascending and parallel lateral 
pairs, all more or less pulverülent along the sides and shallow- 
ly impressed on the upper side, reticulations evident after 
the pulverulence is rubbed off; petiole also glabrous, 6 mm. 
thick, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, blackish brown, deeply grooved 
