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black. Leaves oblong, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, 10 to 

 15 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, the apex acute or somewhat blunt- 

 acuminate, the base slightly decurrent-acuminate, the upper 

 surface dark-colored when dry, slightly shining, minutely pus- 

 tulate, the lower surface pale, glaucescent or sometimes nearly 

 white, slightly pustulate, sometimes minutely and sparingly 

 pubescent with very short scattered hairs; lateral nerves about 

 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, prominent on the lower 

 surface, dark-colored in contrast to the pale lower surface of 

 the leaf, looped-anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petioles 2 

 cm long. Staminate inflorescence axillary, solitary, 2 to 2.5 cm 

 long, the rachis glabrous or nearly so, bearing 3 or 4, stout, 

 short, cylindric, thickened branches, these branches about 1 cm 

 long, 2 mm thick, more or less ferruginous-pubescent, covered 

 with the prominent scars of fallen pedicels, flower-bearing only 

 at the apex. Male flowers 7 mm long, about 2.3 mm in dia- 

 meter, their pedicels 2 mm long, with an ovate, pubescent, black- 

 punctate, 1 mm long bracteole at the apex. Calyx externally 

 appressed-ferruginous-pubescent, the buds cylindric, the lobes 3, 

 ovate, thick, subacute or obtuse, somewhat recurved in anthesis, 

 3 mm long, the tube and lobes minutely black-punctate. United 

 anthers cylindric, 3 to 3.5 mm long, their united filaments 1.5 

 to 2 mm long, slightly appressed-hirsute. Female flowers and 

 fruits unknown. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount Maquiling, For. Bur. 13155 Curran, 

 November or December, 1911, altitude not stated. 



A very characteristic species manifestly allied to Myristica simiarum 

 A. DC, the type of which was also from Laguna Province (Calauan). It 

 is well characterized by its 3- or 4-branched staminate inflorescences, the 

 branches thickened, cylindric, and covered with pedicel-scars, and its 

 characteristic leaves, which are dark-colored above and very pale beneath. 

 The minutely pustulate leaves and the black-punctate flowers are also 

 characteristic. Its staminate flowers are twice as large as are those of its 

 closest ally, Myristica simiarum A. DC. 



MYRISTICA NITIDA sp. nov. 



Arbor, inflorescentiis fructibusque exceptis glabra; foliis 

 lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 18 cm longis, apice 

 longe acute acuminatis, basi acutis, supra valde nitidis subtus 

 paullo pallidioribus nitidisque; nervis lateralibus circiter 10 

 utrinque ; f ructibus oblongis vel ellipsoideis, circiter 6 cm longis, 

 minute brunneo-tomentosis. 



A tree, glabrous except the fruit and apparently the inflores- 

 cence, the latter not seen. Branches terete, wrinkled when dry, 

 dark-colored or brownish, the branchlets light-brown. Leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, 



