132 MISS L. 8. GIBBS ON THE FLORA AND PLANT FORMATIONS 
THYMELAACEA. 
WiksTrRGMIA RipLEYI, Gamble in Kew Bull. (1912) No. 4, 200, 
Jesselton, in young open jungle. Fl. Dec. 2590. 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula. 
I am indebted to Mr. H. N. Ridley for this determination. 
DRAPETES ERICOIDES, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic, Pl. t. 895. 
Kinabalu, 13,000', on summit, in cracks in granite, abundant. FI. Feb. 
4180, 4203. 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Kinabalu, 12,000’ to top, Low ; Haviland). New 
Guinea, Mt. Seratehly and Mt. Knutsford. 
LORANTHACEJE. 
*LonANTHUS (§ Heteranthus) MAXWELLIANUS, Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Ramuli teretes, cinerascentes. Folia opposita, petiolata, obovata, basi 
elliptica vel oblonga, apice rotundata vel attenuata obtusiuscula, integerrima, 
coriacea, evenia, adulta costa media exempta glabra. acemi axillares et 
terminales, fastigiati, stricti, juniores cum floribus rufo-furfuracei, pulve- 
rulenti, cito glabrescentes, 13-20-flori. Flores sparsi vel subverticillati, 
sessiles, basi bracteola naviculari acutiuscula tomentella stipati. Calyæ 
cylindraceus, rufo-tomentellus, limbo producto patulo  integerrimo. 
Alabastra teretia, acutiuscula, recta, 5-mera; stylus filiformis, sulcatus,. 
stigmate capitellato. 
Hab. Kinabalu, Gurulau spur, 5500’, in high forest. Fl. Feb. 40060. 
The leaves of this specimen are long-petiolate, with petioles 10 mm. long, 
and blades oblong-elliptic in shape, tapering from about the middle to a 
blunt acumen, though some are quite rounded at the apex; they vary from 
5-8 em. in length and 3°7 em. in breadth, and show the midrib conspicuous 
for its whole length on the under side but only indicated on the upper. The 
racemes are erect, 5 em. long, shorter than the leaves and red, including 
rhachis, calyx, and perianth. The caiyx is 4 mm. and the perianth 7 mm.. 
long. The 5 stamens are shorter than the lobes of the perianth, with linear 
anthers 3 mm. long. The ovary is 3 mm. long, furfuraceous, with style and 
capitate stigma 6 mm. long. 
This plant is easily distinguished from L. heteranthus, Wall. by the 
opposite leaves, the racemes shorter than the leaves, and the much smaller 
and sessile flowers. L. heteranthus is described as a shrub in Koorders and 
Valeton's * Excursions Flora von Java,’ p. 159. The above species is noted 
as a ‘tree, flowers red," in my field note-book. This species would come 
into the Section Loranthobotrys, Engl, and the genus Coleobotrys, van 
Tieghem. 
