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10 to 18 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, narrowed above to the 
slenderly acuminate apex and below to the acute base, the upper 
surface very strongly shining, brownish or pale-olivaceous, the 
lower surface somewhat paler, usually brownish, shining but less 
so than the upper surface ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of 
the midrib, rather slender, faintly anastomosing, not much more 
prominent than are the alternating secondary nerves, the reticula- 
tions lax, obscure ; petioles rather slender, 1 to 1.5 cm long. In- 
florescence and flowers unknown. Fruits axillary, solitary, 
oblong to ellipsoid, about 6 cm long, mature ones 3 cm thick and 
equally rounded at both ends, immature ones somewhat narrower, 
sometimes inequilateral; pericarp brittle, densely covered with 
a very short, pale-brown indumentum which rubs off at maturity. 
Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, For. Bur. 22199 Alvarez, December, 1910. 
Possibly as closely allied to Myristica cumingii Warb. as to any other 
species, but very different from that form. It is well characterized by its 
very strongly shining, entirely glabrous, and slenderly acuminate leaves. 
MYRISTICA PALAWANENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, usque ad 8 m alta; foliis coriaceis, oblongis ad 
oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 40 cm longis, obtusis vel breviter 
obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis vel rotundatis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 24, supra glabris, subtus dense ferrugineo- vel pallide 
ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; inflorescentiis $ brevibus, densis- 
sime ferrugineo-pubescentibus, circiter 4 cm longis, bracteis 
lineari-lanceolatis, circiter 2 cm longis, bracteolis nullis ; floribus 
$ circiter 5 mm longis; fructibus ellipsoideis vel ellipsoideo- 
ovoideis, 3 cm longis, extus dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus. 
A small tree 5 to 8 m high, the branchlets, inflorescence, and 
lower surfaces of the leaves uniformly and densely ferruginous- 
pubescent with persistent hairs, the leaves, in age, often pale 
on the lower surface. Branches terete, glabrous, rugose when 
dry. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, 25 to 40 cm 
long, 8 to 19 cm wide, obtuse or the apex shortly, broadly, and 
obtusely acuminate, the base acute to rounded, the upper surface 
olivaceous, glabrous, somewhat shining when dry, the lower 
surface densely ferruginous- or pale ferruginous-pubescent ; 
lateral nerves about 24 on each side of the midrib, very prom- 
inent, reticulations obscured by the indumentum on the lower 
surface, faint on the upper surface; petioles stout, 2 to 3 cm 
long, when young pubescent, becoming glabrous. Male inflores- 
cence in the uppermost axils, forming a subterminal densely 
ferruginous, sparingly branched inflorescence about 4 cm long. 
Flowers brown, densely crowded, racemosely disposed, the pri- 
mary branches (racemes) subtended by very thick, coriaceous, 
