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black. Leaves oblong, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, 10 to 
15 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, the apex acute or somewhat blunt- 
acuminate, the base slightly decurrent-acuminate, the upper 
surface dark-colored when dry, slightly shining, minutely pus- 
tulate, the lower surface pale, glaucescent or sometimes nearly 
white, slightly pustulate, sometimes minutely and sparingly 
pubescent with very short scattered hairs; lateral nerves about 
10 on each side of the midrib, slender, prominent on the lower 
surface, dark-colored in contrast to the pale lower surface of 
the leaf, looped-anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petioles 2 
cm long. Staminate inflorescence axillary, solitary, 2 to 2.5 cm 
long, the rachis glabrous or nearly so, bearing 3 or 4, stout, 
short, cylindric, thickened branches, these branches about 1 cm 
long, 2 mm thick, more or less ferruginous-pubescent, covered 
with the prominent scars of fallen pedicels, flower-bearing only 
at the apex. Male flowers 7 mm long, about 2.3 mm in dia- 
meter, their pedicels 2 mm long, with an ovate, pubescent, black- 
punctate, 1 mm long bracteole at the apex. Calyx externally 
appressed-ferruginous-pubescent, the buds cylindric, the lobes 3, 
ovate, thick, subacute or obtuse, somewhat recurved in anthesis, 
3 mm long, the tube and lobes minutely black-punctate. United 
anthers cylindric, 3 to 3.5 mm long, their united filaments 1.5 
to 2 mm long, slightly appressed-hirsute. Female flowers and 
fruits unknown. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount Maquiling, For. Bur. 13155 Curran, 
November or December, 1911, altitude not stated. 
A very characteristic species manifestly allied to Myristica simiarum 
A. DC., the type of which was also from Laguna Province (Calauan). It 
is well characterized by its 3- or 4-branched staminate inflorescences, the 
branches thickened, cylindric, and covered with pedicel-scars, and its 
characteristic leaves, which are dark-colored above and very pale beneath. 
The minutely pustulate leaves and the black-punctate flowers are also 
characteristic. Its staminate flowers are twice as large as are those of its 
closest ally, Myristica simiarum A. DC. 
MYRISTICA NITIDA sp. nov. 
Arbor, inflorescentiis fructibusque exceptis glabra; foliis 
lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 18 cm longis, apice 
longe acute acuminatis, basi acutis, supra valde nitidis subtus 
paullo pallidioribus nitidisque; nervis lateralibus circiter 10 
utrinque ; fructibus oblongis vel ellipsoideis, circiter 6 cm longis, 
minute brunneo-tomentosis. 
A tree, glabrous except the fruit and apparently the inflores- 
cence, the latter not seen. Branches terete, wrinkled when dry, 
dark-colored or brownish, the branchlets light-brown. Leaves 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, 
