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10 to 18 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, narrowed above to the 

 slenderly acuminate apex and below to the acute base, the upper 

 surface very strongly shining, brownish or pale-olivaceous, the 

 lower surface somewhat paler, usually brownish, shining but less 

 so than the upper surface ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of 

 the midrib, rather slender, faintly anastomosing, not much more 

 prominent than are the alternating secondary nerves, the reticula- 

 tions lax, obscure; petioles rather slender, 1 to 1.5 cm long. In- 

 florescence and flowers unknown. Fruits axillary, solitary, 

 oblong to ellipsoid, about 6 cm long, mature ones 3 cm thick and 

 equally rounded at both ends, immature ones somewhat narrower, 

 sometimes inequilateral; pericarp brittle, densely covered with 

 a very short, pale-brown indumentum which rubs off at maturity. 



Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, For. Bur. 22199 Alvarez, December, 1910. 



Possibly as closely allied to Myristica cumingii Warb. as to any other 

 species, but very different from that form. It is well characterized by its 

 very strongly shining, entirely glabrous, and slenderly acuminate leaves. 



MYRISTICA PALAWANENSIS sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, usque ad 8 m alta; foliis coriaceis, oblongis ad 

 oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 40 cm longis, obtusis vel breviter 

 obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis vel rotundatis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 24, supra glabris, subtus dense ferrugineo- vel pallide 

 f errugineo-pubescentibus ; inflorescentiis $ brevibus, densis- 

 sime ferrugineo-pubescentibus, circiter 4 cm longis, bracteis 

 lineari-lanceolatis, circiter 2 cm longis, bracteolis nullis ; floribus 

 $ circiter 5 mm longis; fructibus ellipsoideis vel ellipsoideo- 

 ovoideis, 3 cm longis, extus dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus. 



A small tree 5 to 8 m high, the branchlets, inflorescence, and 

 lower surfaces of the leaves uniformly and densely ferruginous- 

 pubescent with persistent hairs, the leaves, in age, often pale 

 on the lower surface. Branches terete, glabrous, rugose when 

 dry. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, 25 to 40 cm 

 long, 8 to 19 cm wide, obtuse or the apex shortly, broadly, and 

 obtusely acuminate, the base acute to rounded, the upper surface 

 olivaceous, glabrous, somewhat shining when dry, the lower 

 surface densely ferruginous- or pale ferruginous-pubescent; 

 lateral nerves about 24 on each side of the midrib, very prom- 

 inent, reticulations obscured by the indumentum on the lower 

 surface, faint on the upper surface; petioles stout, 2 to 3 cm 

 long, when young pubescent, becoming glabrous. Male inflores- 

 cence in the uppermost axils, forming a subterminal densely 

 ferruginous, sparingly branched inflorescence about 4 cm long. 

 Flowers brown, densely crowded, racemosely disposed, the pri- 

 mary branches (racemes) subtended by very thick, coriaceous. 



