16(1 cxiv. MYRiSTiCACE^ (stapf). [StaudHa. 



valves slightly raised. Seed 10 lin. long, G lin. in diam. ; aril dentate at 

 the apex. — Myristica Xiohue, Baill. Adansonia, ix. 79, partly. Fycnan- 

 thus Niohue, Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. Ixviii. 259, partly. 



Ziower Culnea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 565! and witliout precise 

 locality, Klaine, 565b ! 



Myristica Niohue, Baill., and Pycnanfhvs Niohtie, Warb., were, according to 

 Warburg, biised on mixtures of Sfaudtia gahonensis (leaf-branches) and Pycnanthus 

 Komho (fruit), collected by Griffon du Bellay (No. 5) and Duparquet (No. 74). 



Imperfectly known species. 



4. S. pterocarpa, Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Kat. Cur. Ixviii. 243, 

 t. 8 {sub Brochoneura pterocarjoa). Fruit ovoid or obovoid, 2J-3 in. long, 

 l§-2 in. in diam., with or without sharply raised sutural ridges ; pericarp 

 2 lin. thick; aril '' capsulif orm " [Welwitsch), entire, covering the whole 

 seed, truncate, Heshy or subcoriaceous, scarlet, at length deliquescent. 

 Seed ovoid or obovoid, 2-2J in. long, \\ in. in diam.; testa yellowish, 

 streaked with brown, J-y^ lin. thick. Cotyledons thick, large. — Warb. 

 Muskatnuss, 386, t. 4, fig. 11. Myristica macrocarpa, Wei w. ex Christy, 

 New. Comm. Drugs, No. 8 (1885), 27; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 914. 



Xiower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, in forest, Welwitsch ! 



5. CEPHALOSPH^RA, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 383. 



Male flower: Perianth subglobose, 3-4-fid. Filaments united into 

 a long exserted column ; anthers 3-4, adnate to the column and shorter 

 than its stipes. Female flower : Perianth unknown. Fruit large ; 

 pericarp thick, fleshy ; aril laciniate. Seed ovoid ; testa thick, woody ; 

 endosperm not ruminate, replete with fat and starch ; cotyledons con- 

 nate at the base, suberect, not diverging. — Leaves chartaceous, glau- 

 cous below, glabrous ; lateral nerves interarching ; arches distant from 

 the margin ; veins forming a faint network. Inflorescences panicled 

 with large mostly distant flower-heads; bracts present ; bracteoles none. 



Species 1, in East Africa. 



1. C. usambarensis, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 383. A tree 

 160 ft. high, with dark branchlets, fulvo-pubescent at their tips when 

 young. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong, gradually attenuate and 

 acute at both ends, 4-5 in. long, 2 in. broad, dark green above, glaucous 

 or almost silver-grey below ; midrib prominent below ; lateral nerves 

 15-20 on each side, slender, but distinct. Male panicles axillary (some- 

 times from the axils of fallen leaves), 2J-3 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, ferru- 

 ginous-puberulous ; peduncle under 1 in. long; lower branches about 

 1 in. long, ultimate divisions very short; heads globose, 2J-3J lin. in 

 diam. Perianth 1 lin. in diam., ferruginous-tomentellous without ; lobes 

 broad-ovate, obtuse. Fruit with fleshy greyish-green pericarp ; aril 

 reddish yellow, thick. Seed almost 2 in. long and 1 in. in diam. ; testa 

 yellowish brown, shining ; chalaza subterminal ; raphe very much im- 



