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side of the midrib, prominent, anastomosing ; petioles 2 to 4 mm 

 long ; stipules lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, 

 slightly inaequilateral, 1 to 2 cm long, 3 to 7 mm wide, more or 

 less rubiginous-pubescent. Racemes axillary, solitary, the pis- 

 tillate ones up to 12 cm long, somewhat pubescent, the flowers 

 rather few, scattered, the pedicels in fruit about 1 cm long, 

 spreading. Calyx pubescent, 5-parted, the lobes extending about 

 one-half to the base. Fruit glabrous, not compressed, subobo- 

 void, about 5 mm long, the stigma sublateral. 



Borneo, without definite locality, Hallier 1773. 



A species well characterized by its rubiginous indumentum, but more 

 especially by its scattered, long-pedicelled, obovoid, smooth fruits which 

 are scarcely compressed, but sometimes roughly triangular in cross- 

 section, and their sublateral stigmas. It is not closely allied to any 

 species known to me. 



ANTIDESMA PACHYPHYLLUM sp. nov. 



Arbor, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiis ferrugineo-pubescen- 

 tibus exceptis glabra; foliis crasse coriaceis, oblongis, usque ad 

 17 cm longis, prominente acuminatis, basi subacutis ad rotun- 

 datis, nitidis, in siccitate supra olivaceis, subtus brunneis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 8, distinctis ; stipulis lanceolatis, circiter 4 mm 

 longis, caducis ; inflorescentiis $ brevibus, parce ramosis, ramis 

 circiter 1 cm longis ; floribus confertis, sessilibus, 4-meris, calycis 

 ultra medium divisis ; f ructibus breviter pedicellatis, leviter com- 

 pressis, circiter 6 mm longis, stylis terminalibus. 



A tree, glabrous except the very young branchlets, stipules, 

 and inflorescences, which are ferruginous-pubescent. Branches 

 terete, pale-grayish. Leaves oblong, rather thickly coriaceous, 

 dark-olivaceous on the upper surface, brown on the lower, and 

 prominently shining on both when dry, 8 to 17 cm long, 4 to 

 6.5 cm wide, apex prominently and usually acutely acuminate or 

 the acumen apiculate, base subacute to rounded; lateral nerves 

 about 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, anastomos- 

 ing; petioles about 1 cm long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 

 pubescent, about 4 mm long, caducous. Pistillate inflorescences 

 axillary, solitary, in anthesis about 1 cm long, densely ferrugi- 

 nous-pubescent, the branches, from or near the base, usually 2 or 

 3, sometimes one or none, cylindric. Flowers sessile, densely ar- 

 ranged. Bracteoles pubescent, broadly ovate, rounded, less than 

 1 mm long. Calyx-segments 4, oblong-ovate, pubescent, 0.8 mm 

 long, extending about two-thirds to the base of the calyx. Ovary 

 ovoid, glabrous, about 1.5 mm long; stigma terminal. Fruit 

 ovoid, slightly inequilateral, about 6 mm long, somewhat com- 



