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



escent, 1 cm long or less. Racemes terminal, solitary, sometimes 

 with one or two short basal branches, all parts densely pubescent, 

 the pedicels slender, up to 5 cm in length. Buds clove-shaped, 

 densely pubescent, the tube cylindric, slender, 8 to 10 mm long, 

 the limb ovoid. Sepals oblong-ovate, obscurely acuminate, about 

 8 mm long. Petals externally slightly appressed-ciliate, obovate, 

 about 16 mm long, the limb broad, rounded, up to 14 mm wide, 

 the claw stout, 2 to 4 mm long, base slightly narrowed, rounded. 

 Fertile stamens three, stout, glabrous, about 10 mm long; 

 anthers suborbicular, 2 mm in diameter; sterile filaments seven, 

 6 to 7 mm in length. Ovary oblong, appressed ferruginous- 

 pubescent especially in the lower part and along the margins, 

 glabrous above; style short, glabrous. 



Sarawak, Baram District, Marudi, Hose 254, June 12, 1895. 



A species belonging in the group with Bauhinia pyrrhaneura Korth., but 

 with shorter petioles, fewer nerves, and obscure reticulations. It also resem- 

 bles Bauhinia bidentata Jack, but differs from that species in many 

 characters. 



BAUHINIA MEGALANTHA sp. nov. § Phanera. 



Frutex scandens ramulis inflorescentiis floribusque dense ad- 

 presse f errugineo-tomentosis ; foliis chartaceis, late ellipticis, 

 9- vel 11-nerviis, usque ad 10 cm longis, basi late rotundatis, 

 foliolis usque ad f connatis, apice rotundatis ; inflorescentiis ter- 

 minalibus, racemosis, paucifloris, floribus magnis, usque ad 

 8 cm longis, longe pedicellatis, sepalis petalisque extus dense 

 ferrugineo-tomentosis. 



A scandent shrub, the younger parts and the inflorescence 

 densely ferruginous-pubescent with short, appressed hairs. 

 Branches terete, brown, becoming quite glabrous. Leaves broad- 

 ly elliptic, chartaceous, 7 to 10 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, the 

 upper surface brownish-pruinose when dry, quite glabrous, the 

 lower paler and appressed-pubescent with scattered, short, 

 brownish hairs, base broadly rounded, sometimes very shallowly 

 cordate, 9- or 11-nerved, apex cleft about one-fifth to the base, 

 the lobes rounded, the sinus very narrow, the midrib excurrent 

 as a slender, somewhat pubescent, 4 to 5 mm long mucro; pe- 

 tioles slender, 3 to 5 cm long. Racemes terminal, solitary, few- 

 flowered, the axis 8 to 20 cm long, and with the pedicels, calyx, 

 and petals densely appressed ferruginous-pubescent with short 

 hairs, the pedicels about 5 cm in length. Buds widely clavate, 

 the tube cylindric, slightly gibbous at the base, 1.5 to 2 cm long, 

 rather abruptly enlarged at the base of the oblong, acute limb. 

 Sepals 4.5 to 5 cm long, about 8 mm wide, coriaceous, acuminate, 

 at least twice as long as the tube. Petals subequal, about 5 



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