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obscure, glabrous above, when young ferrugineous-pubescent beneath 

 (as are the branchlets and flowers), soon glabrate, but with the 

 shining lower surface still fulvous, or at length whitish. Petioles an 

 inch or less in length. Flowers supra-axillary (the male decidedly so), 

 umbellate on a short (1-1 1 line long) or almost obsolete peduncle. Sta- 

 minate flowers numerous : pedicels 2 to 3 lines long, with a bractlet 

 at their apex. Perianth 2 lines long, clavate-oblong, three-toothed. 

 Andrcecium lanceolate, acute : the anthers about 5, slender, and with 

 their short filaments united longitudinally into a column, which is 

 nearly as long as the perianth. Female flowers several or numerous 

 on the very short peduncle, or subsessile rhachis, pedicellate like the 

 male flowers ; the ovoid perianth three-lobed. Fruit oblong, or elon- 

 gated-oblong, ferrugineous-puberulent when young, at length almost 

 glabrate, li to lh inches in length, apiculate; the pericarp thin and 

 two-valved; the mace much laciniated. Seed oblong, when full-grown 

 an inch long and scarcely half an inch wide, with a thin crustaceous 

 testa. Albumen, in the specimens, inodorous and tasteless. 



This needs to be compared with the M. lancifolia of Poiret ; which 

 is described as having olive-shaped fruits, two or three together, and 

 leaves not unlike those of the present plant, except that they are 

 much smaller, as also the fruits. 



5. Myristica cinerea, Fbir. ? 



Myristica cinerea, Poir. Diet. Suppl. 4, p. 33 ? Spreng. Syst. 3, p. 65 ? 



Hab. Caldera, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



The leaves are larger than those of M. cinerea are said to be by 

 Poiret, and are rounded or obtuse at the base. The flowers and fruits 

 were not gathered, having fallen from the globular and sessile, axil- 

 lary receptacles. 



