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pressed, red, wrinkled when dry, on somewhat thickened, gla- 

 brous, 1 mm long pedicels, the branches of the inflorescence in 

 fruit 1 to 3 cm in length. 



Sarawak, Baram District, Miri River, Hose 69 (type) with pistillate 

 flowers, January, 1895; Baram, Hose 139, January, 1895, in fruit; Lundu, 

 Foxworthy 32, May 10, 1908, in fruit; without definite locality, Native 

 collector 1U31, 1589 (Bur. Sci.), the latter with staminate flowers. 



The last number cited, with staminate flowers, is referred here 

 tentatively, and probably represents the same species. The inflorescences 

 resemble those of the pistillate plants, but the branches are more slender 

 and up to 3 cm in length. The flowers are sessile, 4-merous, and the 

 calyx-segments extend more than half way to the base. The species 

 is well characterized by its thickly coriaceous, strongly shining, prominently 

 acuminate leaves; the few, short, cylindric, densely flowered branches of 

 the pistillate inflorescence; and its sessile flowers; the fruits, however, on 

 short, thickened, glabrous pedicels. 



ANTIDESMA PHANEROPHLEBIUM sp. nov. 



Arbor, ramulis inflorescentiisque griseo-pubescentibus exceptis 

 glabra vel subglabra; foliis oblongis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 23 

 cm longis, brunneis vel olivaceis, nitidis, abrupte subcaudato- 

 acuminatis, basi acutis ad subrotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 

 12, supra impressis, subtus valde prominentibus ; inflorescentiis 

 2 terminalibus vel subterminalibus, Usque ad 15 cm longis, ramis 

 2 vel 3, valde elongatis ; floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis trun- 

 catis, 1.5 mm diametro, margin minute denticulatis, extus pubes- 

 centibus; fructibus ovoideo-ellipsoideis, glabris, 6 mm longis, 

 utrinque angustatis, acutis, aequilateralibus, in siccitate rugosis, 

 leviter carinatis, haud compressis. 



A tree, the branchlets and inflorescence grayish or cine- 

 reous-pubescent with short hairs, the older branches terete, glab- 

 rous. Leaves oblong, subcoriaceous, 12 to 23 cm long, 5 to 10 cm 

 wide, when very young somewhat pubescent on the midrib and 

 lateral nerves on both surfaces, at full maturity quite glabrous 

 or with a few hairs persisting along the midrib beneath, when 

 dry somewhat shining, olivaceous or somewhat brownish, the 

 apex abruptly subcaudate-acuminate, the acumen 1 to 1.5 cm 

 long, acute or somewhat apiculate, the base acute to somewhat 

 rounded ; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, im- 

 pressed on the upper surface, very prominent on the lower sur- 

 face, looped-anastomosing near the margins, the reticulations 

 distinct; petioles 3 to 5 mm long, somewhat pubescent; stipules 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, puberulent, about 5 mm long. 

 Pistillate inflorescences terminal or subterminal, pubescent, up 

 to 15 cm in length, each composed of two or three elongated 

 branches, the flowers rather numerous, racemosely disposed. 



