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apparently on different plants. Staminate cymes densely pub- 

 escent, 1 to 2 cm long, peduncled or branched from the base, 

 flowers numerous, but few opening at one time. Pedicels about 

 1 mm long. Calyx densely pubescent, about 3 mm long, the lobes 

 3, oblong-ovate, acuminate, 1 to 1.5 mm long, not imbricate. 

 Corolla-tube (in bud) about 7 mm long, rather slender, pubes- 

 cent, somewhat angled, the lobes, before anthesis, about 6 mm 

 long. Stamens 9, sub 2-seriate, inserted near the base of the 

 tube, the filaments and anthers glabrous, the former 1 to 2 mm 

 long, the latter about 1.5 mm long, slenderly apiculate. Female 

 flowers not seen, the cymes apparently few-flowered, axillary, 

 their peduncles in fruit up to 3 cm in length. Sepals three, per- 

 sistent, ovate, acute, about 4 mm long. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, 

 narrowed at both ends, about 4.5 cm long, 2 cm in diameter in 

 the middle, the pericarp brown when dry, verruculose, the apical 

 part sparingly appressed-pubescent, the apex prominently ros- 

 trate, the beak stout, less than 1 cm long, 6-celled, 6-seeded. 

 Seeds about 2.5 cm long. 



Amboina, Hitoe lama, Rel. Robins. 1853 (type), October 11, 1913, in 

 forest, altitude about 150 meters; Lateri, Rel. Robins. 1670, 2039, September 

 9 and August 25, 1913, in forest, altitude 150 to 200 meters; locally known 

 as palala daun alas, pala ulan, belu itam, and daun gayam. 



A species manifestly closely allied to the Bornean Maba punctata 

 Hiern, from which it is distinguished especially by its very differently 

 shaped, prominently rostrate fruits, its longer staminate, and much longer 

 pistillate inflorescences, and other minor characters. 



SYMPLOCACEAE 



SY MP LOCOS Jacquin 

 SYMPLOCOS SYRINGOIDES Brand in Engl. Pflanzenreich 6 (1901) 41. 

 Amboina, Soja road, Rel. Robins. 1927, 192S, August 1 and 4, 1913, a 

 shrub 3 to 5 m high, on hill sides, altitude 50 to 100 meters ; locally known 

 as kayu loba and kayu reha. 



Known only from Amboina, and very closely allied to the widely dis- 

 tributed Symplocos javanica (Bl.) Kurz, which is also reported by Brand 

 from Amboina. 



OLEACEAE 



JASMINUM Linnaeus 

 JASMINUM 2IPPELIANUM Blume Mus. Bot. 1 (1850) 279. 



Amboina, Wae, Rel. Robins. 1797, November 29, 1913, on trees at an 

 altitude of about 20 meters. 



Known only from Amboina. 



JASMINUM AMBOINENSE sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque distincte 

 pubescentibus ; foliis oppositis, simplicibus, firme chartaceis vel 



