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rently of sessile flowers also, which must have been closely imbricated. 

 At their apex remain three or four compacted sessile flower-buds, 

 each subtended by an ovate bract; the bracts and three-cleft? perianth 

 coriaceous, ferrugineous-pubescent outside. Androecium composed of 8 

 or 10 nearly sessile and linear anthers, which are closely united with 

 each other and with a central axis. Fruit nearly sessile, solitary, 

 axillary, oblong, obtuse, with a minute and oblique apiculation, an 

 inch and a quarter long, minutely tomentose with a ferrugineous pubes- 

 cence, apparently splitting into two valves at maturity. Seed an 

 inch long, ovoid-oblong, conformed to the pericarp. 



2. Myristica macrophylla, Sp. Nov. 



M. foliis (bipedalibus et ultra) obovato-oblongis basi angustatis glabris 

 multicostatis subtus albidis, venulis inconspicuis. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands; on mountains. 



This is mentioned in Dr. Pickering's MSS. notes as a smaller tree 

 than the foregoing, but with the leaves sometimes 2 J feet long. In 

 the specimen, which is unfortunately destitute both of flowers and 

 fruit, the leaves are over 2 feet in length, and of a different shape 

 from those of the preceding species, being nearly obovate, and tapering 

 gradually from above the middle to the acute base; the summit scarcely 

 acute. The ribs or straight veins are about 35 pairs, and very promi- 

 nent underneath ; but the transverse veinlets are scarcely visible on 

 the smooth, but whitish lower surface. 



3. Myristica hypargyr^ia, Sp. Nov. 



M. foliis oblongis basi obtusis glabris pluricostatis subtus argentato- 

 albidis; fhribus axillaribus in pedunculum brevem seu brevissimum 

 glomeratis, masculis breviter pedicellatis ; fructu ovoideo-subgloboso 

 tomentuloso. 



Hab. Tutuila and Savaii, Samoan or Navigators' Islands ; in deep 

 woods. Also at Tongatabu. 



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