OF MT. KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO, 111 
ELATOSTEMA THALICTROIDEs, Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Dot. iv. 
(1894) 229, pl. 19 B. 5-8. 
Kinabalu, slopes above Lobang, 6000', in high forest. FI. Feb. 4135. 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Kinabalu, 5000’, Haviland). 
A graceful plant, 030-1 m. in height, abundant in the herbaceous under- 
growth of the primary high forest from 4000-6000". 
*ELATOSTEMA VIRIDISSIMUM, Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Herba erecta, tota hirsutissima. Caulis in sicco strigosus. Folia alterna, 
disticha, sessilia, oblique oblongo-oblanceolata, falcata, basi in latere exteriore. 
auriculatim producta, in interiore attenuata, apice acuminata, firma, in sicco 
viridissima, dentata, supra eystolithis densissime inspersa, triplinervia, nervis 
lateralibus in latere majore 6-7, supra valde impressis, subtus maxime 
prominentibus albido-pilosis eystolithis obtectis. 
Hab. Kinabalu, Penibukan spur, 6000’, in mossy forest undergrowth. 
9. Feb. 4054. 
The aerial shoots are from. 1-2:6 dm. in height, the leafy portion being 
half the length of the stem (which is branched in the specimen figured) and 
1-7 dm. broad. The stipules are lanceolate, yellow-green, 6 mm. long and 
2 mm. broad, hirsute and dotted with cystoliths on the upper surface. The 
largest leaves are 6 em. long and 77 em. broad ; the tertiary veins form 
marked areoles on the upper surface of the leaves, the veins being depressed 
and glabrous. 
The cymes are sessile, 1-1°3 em. long and 7 em. broad, the involucres 
consisting of two large connate bracts, 4 mm. long and 2 mm, broad, with 
reflexed apices, and four smaller ones, all densely hirsute, with scattered 
eystoliths on the outside, but smooth and glabrous on the inside. In the. 
eymes in the axils of the upper leaves no flowers were found, only hirsute 
and persistent bracteoles ; those in the axils of. the lower cymes were 9 , the 
pedicels of the flowers being 2 mm. long; no perianth was seen, but five 
staminodes, not inflexed, occurred below the ovary; on one sterile flower, 
however, only two staminodes were found. The achenes were 1 mm. long, 
brown and smooth in texture. 
In the extraordinary hairiness of the whole plant, the bright green colour 
of the leaves and their peculiar reticular areolation, this species differs from 
any Llatostema so far seen. 
*ELATOSTEMA KINABALUENSE, Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Herba erecta, minima, omnimodo pilosiuscula. Caulis sulcatus, in sicco. 
nigrescens, ramis gracilibus. Folia alterna, sessilia, oblique oblanceolata vel 
obovata, basi plerumque latere altero acuta vel subacuta, altero rotundata 
vel subauriculata, apice acuta, margine a medio vel fere a basi acute serrata, 
chartacea, supra nigro-virescentia, subtus pallidiora, pustulata, triplinervia, 
