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or tomentose. Branches and branchlets terete, brownish to gray- 

 ish. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, rather pale or pale-brownish- 

 olivaceous when dry, entire, somewhat shining, quite glabrous 

 on both surfaces or the very young ones slightly fulvous- 

 pubescent on the midrib and nerves beneath, 10 to 20 cm long, 

 3 to 6.5 cm wide, the apex rather prominently acuminate, base 

 obtuse to rounded, sometimes very obscurely cordate; lateral 

 nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, not impressed on the 

 upper surface, very prominent on the lower surface, curved- 

 ascending, anastomosing, the primary reticulations fine, distinct, 

 subparallel ; petioles stout, about 5 mm long, when young fulvous- 

 pubescent, soon becoming quite glabrous; stipules foliaceous, 

 coriaceous, similar in texture and appearance to the leaves, 

 lunate, strongly falcate, acuminate, about 1 cm long and 4 mm 

 wide, when young very slightly pubescent, becoming glabrous. 

 Male spikes short, cylindric, dense, 1 to 2 cm long, axillary and 

 in the axils of fallen leaves, one or two to several in each axil, 

 somewhat pubescent. Sepals 3, obovate to narrowly obovate, 

 rounded, obtuse, slightly pubescent, about 1 mm long. Stamens 

 2, their filaments long-exserted, about 2.5 mm long. Female in- 

 florescences racemose, 1 to 3 cm long, densely fulvous-tomentose, 

 solitary or several from each axil, peduncled, or at least without 

 flowers in the lower part, the pedicels stout, fulvous-pubescent, 

 about 1 mm long. Calyx fulvous-tomentose, the sepals 5, oblong- 

 ovate, acuminate, about 1 mm long. Ovary and styles black when 

 dry, glabrous, or the ovary with very few, scattered, fulvous 

 hairs, about 2 mm long, ellipsoid ; styles 3, stout, spreading, nearly 

 3 mm long, cleft to about the middle into two stout arms. 



Sarawak, Baram District, Baram, Hose UO, 92 (type) , 278, March, 1895, 

 and October, 1894; near Kuching, 5th mile, Rock Road, Native collector 

 558 (Bur. Sci.), July 27, 1911. 



A species manifestly closely allied to Aporosa lunata Kurz, from which 

 it differs, however, in many characters, notably in its glabrous branches 

 and leaves, and much fewer nerves which are not impressed on the upper 

 surface. From Aporosa benthamiana Hook, f., to which it is apparently 

 even more closely allied, it differs notably in its much smaller, fewer- 

 nerved leaves. 



APOROSA SUBCAUDATA sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor subtus foliis ramulis inflorescentiisque dense 

 f errugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis subcoriaceis, oblongis, integris, 

 usque ad 20 cm longis, apice prominente subcaudato-acuminatis, 

 basi acutis, nervis utrinque 9 ad 11, subtus valde prominentibus ; 

 spicis $ numerosis, 1 ad 2 cm longis, fasciculatis, axillaribus et 

 e axillis def oliatis ; sepalis 4, leviter pubescentibus ; filamentis 2. 



