158 cxiv. MYRiSTiCACEiE (stapf). [Pi/cnanthii8, 



Species 2 to 5, endemic. 



Leaves with 20-35 lateral nerves on encli side ; 

 tomentum of leaves ferrnginou?, of brown cande- 

 labriform hairs . . . , , . . 1. P. Kombo. 



Leaves with 40-60 lateral nerves on each side ; tomen- 

 tum of leaves very scatity (except when quite young), 

 of minute whitish stellate hairs . . . . 2. P. microcephalus. 



1. P. Kombo, Warb. inXov. Act. Acad. Nat.' Cur. Ixviii. 252 {partly ^ 

 i.e.yVars. amjolensis and microcephalus). A tree, o0-120 ft. high; trunk uj> 

 to 5 ft. in (liam. ; branches liorizontai or somewhat drooping ; branchlets 

 like all the young parts of the plant densely covered with a brownish- 

 red velvety tomentum, formed of candelabriform hairs, at length more 

 or less glabrescent. Leaves oblong, shortly cordate at the base, rather 

 suddenly contracted into a fine and often long acumen, up to over S in. 

 long, up to 3 in. wide ; tomentum long-persistent on the midrib and 

 nerves ; midrib stout and prominent below ; lateral nerves 20-35 on 

 each side, much-spreading, slightly curved or almost straight, joined 

 by short loops near the margin, slender, prominent below, distinctly 

 showing up from the densely and very minutely papillose glaucous 

 ground; transverse veins few, delicate; petioles stout, 3-4 lin. long, 

 reddish tomentose. Male panicles axillary (often from the axils of fallen 

 leaves), 3-G in. long, 1-3 in. wide, brownish-red, velvety ; peduncle 

 J- J in. long; rhachis and branches somewhat stout, flexuous ; heads 

 in compact lobed ovoid clusters on the short secondary branchlets, 

 globose, 1 lin. in diam. Perianth shortly clavate-turbinate, 3- (some- 

 times 4-5-) tid, \ lin. long, brownish-red, minutely papillose ; lobes 

 obovate. Androecium exserted ; stipes slender, as long as or slightly 

 longer than the perianth ; anthers 3-5, not quite \ lin. long. Female 

 panicle unknown. Fruiting panicle rather robust, 4-5 in, long, with a 

 flexuous rhachis and primary branches up to 2 in. long; pedicels 

 1-2 lin. long. Fruit oblong- or subobovoid-ellipsoid, 1-1 1 in. long, 

 8-10 lin. in diam. ; pericarp green, at length glabrous, up to 2 lin. 

 thick, sutural ridges prominent and acute in the young fruit, often 

 obscure in the mature; aril fleshy, coloured, laciniate almost to the 

 base. Seed dusky, 8-12 lin. long, 5-7 lin. in diam.; testa faintly 

 longitudinally grooved ; cotyledons thick. — Warb. Muskatnuss, 374, 

 385, t. 4, fig. 9. P. microcephala, Warb. in Ber. Pharm. Gesellsch. 

 Berlin, 1892, 222 (excl. syn.). F. Niohue, Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. 

 Nat. Cur. Ixviii. 259 (the fruit only). Myristica Komhoy Baill. in Adans. 

 ix. (1808), 79. J/. Xlohue, Baill. I.e. (the fruit only). M. angolensis, 

 Welw. in Syn. Expl. 51, No. 137 (name only); Ficalho, fPl. Uteis, 

 p. 24G ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 913. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Sherhx o, Oarrett ! Afzelius ! French (luinca : 

 Longucry, Chevalier, 14:77i) I Ivory Coast: liw^crvUlc, Chevalier, 160GS\ liour- 

 sukron, Chevalier, 16101 bis ! Gold Coast : between Amfoi and Alafanjo, Krause ! 

 and without precise locality, Evans! Togo: Lobots Mountain, hear Alak^'uma, 

 1600 ft., Dohring, 901 ! Sodo, near Alakgama, Dohring, 148 ! Busse, 3536 I 

 Southern Nigeria: Ibadan forest reserve, Punch, 126! Xsvihix, Leslie, 43! Akomu^ 

 Dodd, 402 ! Northern Nigeria: without precise locality, Elliott ! 



