92 The Philippine Journal of Science mm 



Sarawak, Matang Road, Native collector 198 (Bur. Sci.) , January 3, 1911. 



Closely allied to Fordia coriacea Dunn, but distinguished by its much 

 more numerous, narrower, glabrous leaflets which are acute at the base, 

 and by its longer racemes. I have before me a specimen of Hose 75 on 

 which Dunn's species was in part based. 



CLITOREA Linnaeus 



CLITOREA CAJANIFOLIA (Presl) Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 15: 121. 



Sarawak, Santubong, Foxworthy 422; Tabaan, Native collector 70S, 1088, 

 1905 (Bur. Sci.). 



A native of Brazil, now introduced and naturalized in Siam, the Malay 

 Peninsula, Singapore, and Java; new to Borneo. 



CANAVALIA DeCandolle 



CANAVALIA LINEATA (Thunb.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 404. 



Sarawak, Buntal, Native collector 1636 (Bur. Sci.); Baram District, 

 Hose 54, 605, January and April, 1895. 



A littoral species of wide tropical distribution, not, however, before 

 definitely recorded from Borneo. 



CAESALPINIA Linnaeus 



CAESALPINIA CRISTA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 380 (C. bonduc L., C. bondu- 

 cella Flem.). 

 Sarawak, Santubong, Native collector 2213 (Bur. Sci.), along the sea- 

 shore. Tropics of the world. 



DESMODIUM Desvaux 

 DESMODIUM GYROIDES (Roxb.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 326. 



Sarawak, Native collector 1410, 2025 (Bur. Sci.); Baram District, Miri 

 River, Hose 515, January, 1895. 



New to Borneo. India to Formosa, southward to New Guinea. 



DESMODIUM UMBELLATUM (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 325. 



Sarawak, Native collector 1045, 1620, 2210 (Bur. Sci.) ; Baram District, 

 Hose 264, December, 1894. 



New to Borneo; along tropical shores, Mascarene Islands and India to 

 southern China, northern Australia, and Polynesia. 



DESMODIUM TRIFOLIASTRUM Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1855) 248. 



Sarawak, foot of Mount Santubong, Native collector 2319 (Bur. Sci.), 

 February-June, 1914. 



Perak, Java, Mindanao, and New Guinea, probably also in other islands 

 of the Malay Archipelago; new to Borneo. 



FLACOURTIACEAE 



CASEARIA Jacquin 

 CASEARIA ELLIPTIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor, foliis firme chartaceis, ellipticis, nitidis, subtus ad costa 

 nervisque leviter pubescentibus, usque ad 11 cm longis, integris, 

 basi acutis vel subacutis, apice late obtuse acuminatis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 8, prominentibus ; floribus axillaribus, fascicu- 



