xi, c, 2 Merrill: Notes on the Flora of Borneo 89 



on one side than on the other, nerves ad reticulations obsolete. 

 Panicles terminal, about 20 cm long, the branches rather few, 

 densely brownish-pubescent with short hairs, densely many- 

 flowered. Flowers not seen. Pedicels in fruit pubescent, 3 to 

 4 mm long; persistent calyx sparingly rusty-pubescent, inequi- 

 lateral, 3 to 4 mm in diameter. Pods glabrous, about 5 cm long, 

 1.4 cm wide, the basal seed-bearing portion somewhat turgid, 

 nearly black when dry, very obscurely reticulate, subrhomboid- 

 ovate in outline, about 1.5 cm long and 1.2 cm wide, the wing 

 brown, shining, the upper side slightly curved, the style subper- 

 sistent as a long slender apiculus up to 1.5 cm long, falling 

 and leaving a very short apiculus, the wing broadly rounded at the 

 apex, slightly narrowed above. 



Sarawak, Baram District, Lio-matu, Native collector 2761 (Bur. Sci.) 

 (original number 12) October 29, 1914. 



A species manifestly allied to Pterolobium densiflorum Prain of the 

 Malay Peninsula and P. microphyllum Miq. of Java. From the former it 

 is distinguished by its shorter pinnae; rather fewer leaflets, which are 

 smaller in size; its shorter inflorescence; and its rather wider wing, which 

 is distinctly curved along the upper margin and not narrowly rounded at the 

 apex. From Miquel's species it is distinguished by its fewer pinnae and 

 leaflets, larger leaflets, and pubescent pedicels. 



SPATHOLOBUS Hasskarl 



SPATHOLOBUS OBLONGIFOLIUS sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque exceptis 

 glaber; foliolis oblongis, usque ad 22 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 

 acutis, nervis utrinque 9, prominentibus, adscendentibus, rhachi- 

 bus haud productis ; paniculis axillaribus, dense tomentosis, sup- 

 pyramidatis, pedunculatis, circiter 20 cm longis, floribus circiter 

 8 mm longis, in ramulis ultimis racemose dispositis; fructibus 

 junioribus dense adpresse tomentosis. 



Scandent, glabrous or nearly so except the younger parts and 

 the densely tomentose inflorescences. Branches terete, lenticel- 

 late. Petioles glabrous, 5.5 to 7 cm long, not produced beyond 

 the lateral leaflets, the stipels linear, about 3 mm long; leaflets 

 oblong, subequally narrowed to the acute base and the rather 

 prominently acuminate apex, pale or brownish and shining when 

 dry, 18 to 20 cm long, 5 to 6.5 cm wide, coriaceous, the terminal 

 one equilateral, the others more or less inequilateral, their petio- 

 lules black when dry, 8 to 10 mm long ; lateral nerves 9 on each 

 side of the midrib, prominent, ascending. Panicles axillary, 

 about 20 cm long, peduncled, subpyramidal, the rachis and 

 branches rather densely tomentose with spreading ferruginous 

 hairs, these in age becoming rather pale. Flowers racemosely 



