xi, c, 2 Merrill: Notes on the Flora of Borneo 67 



A shrub or small tree, nearly glabrous, the branches slender, 

 terete, brownish, the younger ones somewhat striate. Leaves 

 furfuraceous-lepidote, numerous, crowded, linear, 4 to 7 cm 

 long, 4 to 7 mm wide, coriaceous, subequally narrowed to the 

 cuneate base and rather blunt apex, the margins distantly cren- 

 ulate, pale-greenish, rather dull when dry, entirely glabrous, 

 the very young ones with few, scattered, pale, stellate scales, 

 the basal glands rather prominent; lateral nerves about 6 on 

 each side of the midrib, very obscure; petioles up to 3 mm in 

 length. Racemes 3 to 6 cm long, sparingly stellate-furfuraceous 

 or stellate-lepidote. Female flowers: Pedicels 1 to 1.5 mm long; 

 sepals 5, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 2.5 mm 

 long; petals none; ovary ovoid, pale stellate-pubescent, about 1.5 

 mm long, 3-celled; style arms spreading, 1.5 mm long. Male 

 flowers above on the same inflorescence, more numerous than 

 the female, about 4 mm in diameter, their pedicels 1.5 mm long. 

 Sepals oblong-ovate, acute. Petals linear-oblong, flat, 1.6 mm 

 long, margins prominently white-ciliate or lanate. Stamens 10; 

 filaments about 2 mm long. 



Sarawak, Baram District, Lio-matu, Native collector 2770 (Bur. Sci.) 

 (original number 21), October 30, 1914. 



A very strongly marked species, readily recognized by its very narrow, 

 linear, distantly crenulate, coriaceous leaves, which at maturity are entirely 

 glabrous, but when young with few, scattered, stellate-lepidote scales. 

 I know of no species to which it is closely allied. It probably belongs 

 in the group with Croton heterocarpus Muell.-Arg. 



GLOCHIDION Forster 

 GLOCHIDION PEDUNCULATUM sp. nov. § Euglochidion. 



Arbor (vel frutex) floribus s exceptis glabra; foliis ovatis ad 

 oblongo-ovatis, firme chartaceis, nitidis, usque ad 8 cm longis, 

 acuminatis, breviter acute apiculatis, aequilateralibus, nervis 

 utrinque 6 vel 7, tenuibus ; floribus 6-meris, perianthii segmentis 

 interioribus quam exterioribus paullo minoribus, glabris, $ pe- 

 dicellatis, antheris 5, coalitis; 9 in capitulis breviter peduncu- 

 latis dispositis, pedicellatis, ovario dense vestito, 5-loculare, 

 columnis stylaribus cylindraceis, dense pubescentibus, quam 

 ovario multo longioribus. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree, the branches and branchlets 

 reddish-brown, slender, the latter slightly compressed or angled. 

 Leaves distichous, ovate to oblong-ovate, 5 to 8 cm long, 2.5 to 

 3.8 cm wide, somewhat brownish-olivaceous when dry, smooth, 

 shining, the lower surface paler than the upper, equilateral, the 

 base acute to rounded, apex somewhat acuminate and minutely 



