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anthesi e foliis summis breviter exsertis, e bracteis 20 (vel ultra) sterilibus 
foliis consimilibus nisi basin versus descrescentibus et 3-1 fertilibus constituti ; 
bractere fertiles (carpidia) aciculares, acutæ, ad 7 mm. long:e, facie basin versus 
concave et supra ipsam squamam ovuligeram solitariam gerentes. Squama 
ovulifera vel epimatium fere ad basin liberum, sub anthesi eucullatum, apice 
minute apiculatum vel crista brevissima munitum ore lato basiscopo, exsiccatum 
longitudinaliter striatum, — Ovulum sub anthesi prieter. micropylam mammi- 
formem vix epimatio exsertum.  Strobili maturi e foliis summis distincte 
exserti, a ramulo facile soluti, ad 1 em. longi. Semina erecta vel oblique 
erecta, braeteas summas steriles vix vel paulo superantia, ovoidea, 4 mm. 
longa, brunnea, nitida, basi ad }-} epimatio aucto inerassato cupuliformi 
cincta.— D. Gibbsiv, Stapf ex Gibbs in Ann. Bot. vol. xxvi. p. 525 (name 
only). D. sp. n., Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Bot. iv. (1894) 248. 
Hab. Kinabalu, in forest or scrub on the spur above Lobang up to the 
granite core, 6000-12,000'. 9. Feb. 4102. Collected already by Low on 
Kinabalu, between 8000' and 11,000' ; but only in the juvenile state. 
Endemic. 
Twice I found normal seeds supported by what appeared to be an organ 
intermediate between an ovuliferous seale or epimatium and a fertile bract. 
In one case the seed so supported (Pl. 4. fig. F) occurred in an almost 
mature 2-seeded strobilus (Pl. 4. fig. D), the other seed of the pair (PI. 4. 
figs. E, G-I) being accompanied by a normal epimatium and a fertile bract. 
The second case concerned a one-seeded mature strobilus (Pl. 4. figs. J-P). 
In both the organ tapered from a broad, more or less ovate and concave base 
to a subulate point and was keeled like an ordinary bract. The base was, 
however, not wide enough to embrace more than a third or a half of the base 
of the seed. In one of them (PI. 4. figs. K, M, N) it showed transverse 
wrinkles on one side like those of the normal mature epimatium (Pl. 4. fig. G). 
The most plausible explanation of this condition seems to be that those 
seeds were truly terminal and therefore destitute of the supporting bract. 
Popocarres mpricatus, Blume, Enum, Pl. Jav. 895; Pilg. in Engl. 
Pflanzenr. iv. 5 (Tax.) 56. 
P. cupressina, R. Dr. ex Mirb. in Mém. Mus. xiii. 75 (nomen) ; Bennett in 
R. Br. Pl. Jav. Rar. i. 35, t. 10 ; Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser, 2. Bot. iv. 
(1894) 249. 
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Kinabalu, spur above Lobang to the granite core, 6000-12,000'. & 9. Feb. 
4166. Also on the Maraiparai spur from 5000-7000". 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Kinabalu, 11,000’, Haviland ; Sarawak). North 
Burma, Sumatra, Celebes, Philippines, and Fiji. 
“A tree 20 m. in height, abundant on the slopes in the high forest above 
Lobang and through the succeeding mossy forest; this species is also 
prominent on the exposed ridges, being dwarfed to 2 m. in the sub-summit 
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