Pycnanthus.'] cxiv. myristicace^ (stapf). 150 



Xrortb Central. Ubangi Territory : Krebedje, Chevalier, 6009 ! 



]bower Guinea. Islaiul of St. Thoinas, Don! Boa Eutrada, Chevalier^ 

 13755 ! 13719 ! Sawtielson (seeds in the Kcw Museum) ! Mount Caff^, 2000 ft., 

 Welwilsch, Carp. Coll. 883 ! Gaboon, Oriffon de Bellay and Duparquet, 120. 

 Spanish Gaboon: Fanof Country, 1500 ft., Tessmann, IJ. 65! Angola: (rolungo 

 Alto; freijuent in forests in various localities, TFelwifsch, 7811 782! 782b! 782c! 

 782d ! and Carp. Coll. 881 ! 882 ! Casengo, 1000-2300 ft., Oossiveiler, 679. 



Var. sphcerocarpa, Stapf. Fruit subglobose, ^--^ in. in diam., on one side with a 

 slightly prominent sutural ridge, on the other with a shallow groove, hence sub- 

 cordate in transverse section. 



Nile Ziaud. German J]ast Africa : Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1167 ! 



This may in the future prove to be a distinct species. 



The seeds of the type are remarkable on account of their containing great 

 quantities of a fat (up to 72 per cent.), and according to Welwitsch they are used 

 by the natives for illumination purposes, burning like tapei-s even when fresh. 



2. P. microcephala, Stwpf (not of Warb.). A tree 00-80 ft. 

 high ; branchlets like all the young parts of the plant very finely 

 tomentellous ; tomentum reddish or ochreous, consisting of minute 

 (often stellate) papillje, soon rubbing off. Leaves oblong to lanceolate- 

 oblong, shortly cordate at the base, contracted into a line acumen, up 

 to 1 ft, long and 2-3 in. (or more) wide ; tomentum in the mature 

 state reduced to a few scattered minute whitish stellate hairs ; midrib, 

 lateral nerves and veins as in P. Kombo, but the nerves 40-00 on each 

 side ; petiole stout, up to 6 lin. long, very soon glabrous. Male panicles 

 3-8 in. long, up to 6 in. wide, finely rusty-tomentellous, at length 

 glabrescent ; peduncle J-l J in. long, like the rhachis and branches more 

 slender than in F. Kombo ; heads loosely clustered on the short secon- 

 dary branchlets, globose, up to 1 lin. in diam. Perianth and androecium 

 as in P. Kombo. Female panicle unknown. Fruiting panicle somewhat 

 contracted, up to 8 in. long; primary branches obliquely erect, up to 

 3 in. long ; pedicels extremely short. Fruit obovoid (not quite mature), 

 up to 1 in. long and 8 lin. in diam., with distinct sharp but slender 

 sutural ridges ; pericarp very finely fulvous-tomentellous. — Myristica 

 mlo'ocephala, Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiii. 48, t. 1201. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 572 ! 



Imperfectly knoion species. 



3. P. Dinklageiy Warb. in Nov. Act. Accul. Nat. Cur. Ixviii. 258. 

 A tree about 30 ft. high, with pendulous branches ; branchlets glabrous, 

 dark brown, lenticillate. Leaves elliptic-oblong, rounded at the base, 

 subacute, 4-5 in. long, 1 J-2 in. broad, coriaceous, pale chocolate-brown 

 beneath when dry, glabrous ; midrib prominent below ; lateral nerves 

 about 15 on each side, dark, hardly raised, thinning out towards the 

 margin and joined by faint arches ; veins delicate, anastomosing ; 

 petiole terete, finely channelled, up to J in. long. Male panicles axil- 

 lary, ferruginous-pubescent, 2J-3 in, long, with 4-5 branches on each 

 side, ultimate branchlets short ; bracts broad-ovate, densely hairy, 



