OF MT. KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 109 
The available material is somewhat scanty, but sufficient to distinguish this 
species from RK. coriacea, Wall. its nearest affinity. The chief points of 
difference are the rounded leaf-apices, the smaller leaves with very indistinct 
veins, the almost glabrous inflorescence-branches, and the tetramerous flowers 
with very obtuse and broad sepals and petals. 
STYRACEA. 
SYMPLOCOS OBLONGIFOLIA, Rolfe in Journ. Bot, xxiii. (1886) 214; Vidal, 
Phan. Cuming Philipp. 33 & 124. 
Carlea oblongifolia, Presl, Epim. Bot. 216 (1849). 
Usakan, 500', on open sandstone spurs, isolated. Fl. Fr. March. 4324- 
Distrib, Philippines. 
Shrub, 3 m. in height, of fastigiate habit, with the leaves aggregated 
towards the ends of the branches, and white flowers. It was also seen at 
Jesselton in January on a similar formation, but not in flower. The species 
was first collected by Cuming in Luzon (1054) and described as Carlea 
oblongifolia by Presl (Epim. Bot. 216). My plant agrees in every particular, 
with the exception of the length of the racemes—which are 5 cm., and 
not 5-10 cm., long—with Presl’s description, but a series of specimens, 
collected since by Vidal (No. 1214) and preserved in the herbarium at 
Kew, also has the racemes only 5 cm. long. Compared with the type- 
specimen and other material, the flowers in the Usakan plant are smaller, 
but Iam not inclined to base a variety on this fact, as the plant was only 
seen on dry sandstone formation, where the soil is exposed and injudicious 
clearing and washed out by heavy rains. 
SvwPLocos DEFLEXA, Stapf in Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Bot. iv. (1894) 
205. 
Kinabalu, Pakapaka, 10,000’, in low forest. Fl. Fr. Feb. 4267. 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Kinabalu, 8000’, Haviland). 
This plant agrees very well with the above species, except in the total 
glabrousness of the stem and leaves, the latter showing no deflexion. Only 
the very youngest branches, with the peduncles, pedicels, bracteoles and 
calyces of the flowers, show sparsely adpressed white hairs. Haviland’s 
specimens have no flowers; these are borne on one-flowered peduncles, 
and are about the same size as in S. zizyphoides. The fruit in the present 
case is larger than described by Stapf, being more mature. 
SYMPLOCOS ZIZYPHOIDES, Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Bot. iv. (1894) 
205. 
Kinabalu, in sheltered forest below Pakapaka, 9500’. Fl. Feb. 4257. 
