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pubescent, linear-lanceolate, 2 cm long bracts, the bracteoles 
absent. Flowers 5 to 6 mm long, their lobes broadly ovate, 
obtuse, 3 mm long, the pedicels about 3 mm long. Anthers 3 
mm long. Fruit ellipsoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 3 cm long, nearly 
2 cm in diameter, the pericarp somewhat wrinkled when dry, 
densely and uniformly ferruginous-pubescent with very short 
hairs, crustaceous, 2 mm thick or less. 
Palawan, Taytay, Merrill 9253 (type), 9353, May, 1913; Dawara, For. 
Bur. 7U37 Manalo, March, 1907, in forests at low altitudes. 
A species manifestly closely allied to Myristica guateriifolia A. DC. and 
to M. cookii Warb., differing from the former in its larger leaves, more 
numerous nerves, and smaller fruits; and from the latter in its paler in- 
dumentum, and smaller and fewer-nerved leaves. 
GYMNACRANTHERA Warburg 
GYMNACRANTHERA MACROBOTRYS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 30 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 
oblongis vel anguste oblongo-ellipticis, acuminatis, basi acutis, 
usque ad 20 cm longis, nervis utrinque 12 ad 15, distinctis; 
paniculis axillaribus, adpresse ferrugineo-pubescentibus, circiter 
8 cm longis ; floribus s 4 ad 4.5 mm longis, lobis 3 ad 5 ; antheris 
circiter 9, lanceolatis, 2 mm longis. 
A tree about 30 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence, 
the branches terete, grayish to reddish-brown, lenticellate, the 
terminal buds lanceolate, ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves oblong 
to narrowly oblong-elliptic, firmly chartaceous, 15 to 20 cm long, 
4.5 to 7 cm wide, subequally narrowed at both ends, the apex 
acuminate, base acute, the upper surface smooth and shining, 
the lower paler, slightly glaucous; lateral nerves 12 to 15 on 
each side of the midrib, distinct, the reticulations rather lax, 
very fine, not at all prominent; petioles about 1 cm long. 
Panicles axillary, solitary, 6 to 9 cm long, appressed-ferruginous- 
pubescent, branched from the base, the branches rather distant, 
the lower ones 2.5 to 4 cm long, many flowered. Male flowers 
4 to 4.5 mm long, externally appressed-ferruginous-pubescent, 
ebracteolate, internally shortly pubescent, the perianth 3- to 
5-lobed, the lobes ovate, acute or obtuse, about 2 mm long. 
Stamens about 9, lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 mm long, on 
the stout, 0.3 mm long filament. 
Leyte, near Dagami, Phil. PI. 1171 Ramos, August 9, 1912, in forests. 
A species well characterized by its large staminate flowers, these being 
larger than in any previously known species of the genus. In this 
character Gymnacranthera macrobotrys is allied to G. murtoni Warb., of 
the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, but otherwise does not seem to be closely 
allied. From the common Gymnacranthera paniculata Warb. of the 
