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and petioles sparingly ferruginous-pubescent, the branches and 

 branchlets brown or dark-brown when dry. Leaves chartaeeous, 

 brown and shining when dry, oblong-ovate, entire, acuminate, 7 

 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, glabrous, base broadly truncate- 

 rounded and often shallowly cordate, prominently 5- or 7-nerved ; 

 petioles pubescent, 1 to 2 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, a 

 simple raceme or with one or two branches from the base, up 

 to 7 cm in length, rather densely many-flowered, the rachis and 

 pedicels appressed-pubescent with rather pale hairs, the bracts 

 and bracteoles linear, pubescent. Pedicels slender, about 2 cm 

 long. Buds somewhat clove-shaped, the tube slender, narrowed 

 below to the pedicel, 2 to 3 mm long, the limb oblong-ovoid, 

 narrowed at both ends, acute, pale-pubescent externally with 

 grayish or cinereous, short hairs. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 

 reflexed, about 6 mm long. Petals subequal, 7 to 8 mm long, 

 oblong-obovate to oblong-spatulate, much crisped, obtuse, base 

 narrowed, acute, rather densely pale appressed-pilose externally, 

 the claw 1 to 2 mm long. Fertile stamens 3 ; filaments slender, 

 glabrous, about 6 mm long; anthers broadly ellipsoid, 1.7 mm 

 long. Ovary shortly stipitate, inequilateral, oblong, densely pale- 

 hirsute, about 4 mm long, much shorter than the style, which is 

 glabrous above, hirsute below. 



Sarawak, Native collector 199 (Bur. Sci.). 



Well characterized by its entire, acuminate, glabrous leaves; its densely 

 flowered inflorescence; pointed buds, the tube short, gradually narrowed to 

 the pedicel; and its densely hirsute ovaries. It does not seem to be closely 

 allied to any other Bornean species. 



BAUHINIA HOSE I sp. nov. § Pkcmera. 



Frutex scandens partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque dense 

 cupreo-ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis, 

 in siccitate brunneis, usque ad 9 cm longis, basi 5-nerviis, 

 cordatis, apice acuminatis retusisque; inflorescentiis racemosis, 

 floribus longe pedicellatis ; petalis extus parce ferrugineo-pubes- 

 centibus, obovatis, usque ad 16 mm longis, rotundatis; antheris 

 circiter 2 mm diametro; ovario deorsum dense piloso, sursum 

 glabro. 



A scandent shrub, the younger parts and inflorescence densely 

 pubescent with short, mostly appressed, shining, cupreous- 

 ferrugineous hairs. Branches brown, smooth, glabrous, terete. 

 Leaves thickly coriaceous, oblong-ovate, 7 to 9 cm long, 4 to 

 5.5 cm wide, base rounded, prominently cordate, 5-nerved, apex 

 acuminate, the acumen slightly retuse, the upper surface quite 

 glabrous, the lower surface similar in color, pubescent on the 

 nerves, ultimately glabrous or nearly so; petioles densely pub- 



