OF MT. KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 129 
spicis glabris limbos fere æquantibus ; bracteæ pelta rotunda centro subsessili ; 
filamentis sat longis, antheris ellipticis ; ovario rhachi impresso turbinato 
apice in medio stigmatifero, stigmate carnoso glabro ; bacca globosa glandulis 
asperulata sine pseudocupula. 
Hab. Kinabalu, slopes above Lobang rock, 6000', high forest. Fl. Fr. 4125. 
Herba epiphyta decumbens. Caulis 10 em. longus. Limbus in sicco 
membranaceus, minute pellucido-punctulatus, usque ad 4 cm. longus et 
L8 em. latus. Petiolus 5 mm. longus. Bractese pelta sub 0:5 mm. diam. 
Bacca 0:75 mm. diam., rhachis processu conico sublevata. 
CHLORANTHACEZ. 
CHLORANTHUS OFFICINALIS, Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. 19. 
Melalap, near, 800’, undergrowth in sec. forest. Fl. Fr. Jan. 2846. 
Distrib. Borneo (Sarawak). Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Philip- 
pines, and New Guinea ; Indo-China to Andamans. 
CHLORANTHUS BRACHYSTACHYS, Blume, Fl. Jav. Fasc. 13-14, t. 2. 
Kinabalu, slopes above Lobang rock, 6000’, in high forest undergrowth. 
Fl. Fr. Feb. 4122. 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Kinabalu, 6000', Haviland). Malay Peninsula, 
Java, Philippines ; Japan ; Indo-China to India and Ceylon. 
MYRISTICACEAZE. 
Mynristica GLAUCA, Blume, Bijdr. 516. 
Tenom, 700', in marshy sec. forest, by the railway. 9.Jan. 2803. 
Distrib. Borneo (Sarawak), Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Banka, 
Philippines ; Andamans and Nicobars. 
Flowers orange, densely covered on the outside with an orange-brown 
tomentum. 
LAURACE. 
*ACTINODAPHNE FoxwortHyana, Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Arbor parva. Famili graciles, glabri, innovationes et petioli juniores 
villosuli. Folia graciliter petiolata, 3—5-na verticillata, elliptico-oblonga, apice 
acuminato ipso obtusiuseula, basi cuneata, tenuiter coriacea, adulta gla- 
berrima, supra fusco-brunnea, subtus subglaucescentia, nervis lateralibus 4—6 
arcuato-erectis, supra arctissime reticulata rete maxime prominente, infra 
nervis reteque parum perspicuis. Flores d fasciculati breviter pedunculati, 
dense flavo-sericei. 
Hab. Kinabalu, 10,000’, Pakapaka cave, in sheltered scrubby forest. 
d. Feb. 3135. 
LINN. JOURN.—BOTANY, VOL. XLII, K 
