OF MT. KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 81 
collection, 3141, 3275, 3363, and Haviland’s 543 and 2203 from Kuching. 
Beceari, 1962, may represent another species, whilst his 700 and 3768 bis 
have not been seen by us. All of Beceari's specimens quoted here are 
enumerated under P. capitellata, Jack, in Cogniaux’s ‘ Monograph of the 
Melastomaceee,’ but P. capitellata, Jack, is an obscure plant. Jack himself 
never published a description of it, and Wallich marked his 4079 when 
he distributed it under that name with a sign of interrogation. The plant 
represented. by 4079 in Wallich's herbarium is a very large-leaved species, 
which we know only from the Malay Peninsula (Wallich, 4079 ; Maingay, 
1568 ; King, 4th March, 1879; King's coll., 4856 ; Helfer, 2279 ; Curtis, 
Penang, 67 ; Scortechini, 43). It also includes, at least in part, Naudin's 
P. medinilliformis. Of the remaining specimens, quoted by Cogniaux under 
P. capitellata, Teijsmann's plant from the island of Bangka was described as 
Fwyckia Korthalsiana by Miquel, and referred to Pternandra as P. Kort- 
halsiana by Triana. It is distinet from the large-leaved P. capitellata of 
Wallich. In a similar way P. cerulescens of Cogniaux seems to be a 
composite species. P. cwrulescens was well described by Jack, and is in 
our opinion easily recognised in a specimen in Herb. Hooker from Penang, 
marked “nov. genus Roxb.,” which agrees very well with the Bornean 
specimens quoted above. Wallich’s and Griffith’s specimens quoted by 
Cogniaux under the “type,” are, as far as the Kew material goes, also 
referable to P. cwrulescens. The varieties 8. Jackiana and y. cyanea, however, 
seem to deserve specific rank. 
KinESSIA TESSELLATA, Stapf in Trans. Linn. Sov. ser. 2. Bot. iv. (1894) 
162. 
Kinabalu, Kiau, 2700', on the bridle-path to Koung, in secondary jungle. 
Fl. Feb. 3969. 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Kinabalu, Koung, on the Tampussuk river, 
2000', Haviland). 
* À tree 11 m. high, with light mauve corollas.” 
MEMECYLON LANCEOLATUM, Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. 1157? 
Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Bot. iv. (1894) 162. 
Rayoh hills, Tenom, 1500’, in primary high forest. Fl. Jan. 2898. 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Kinabalu, 6000', Haviland). 
“A tree with bluish-white flowers, 17 m. in height." This is apparently 
the plant, enumerated by me l.e., with some reserve, under M. lanceolatum. 
Unfortunately the material is too scanty to solve the question as to its 
taxonomic status.—O. 8. 
LINN. JOURN.— BOTANY, VOL. XLII. G 
