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lepidote with small scales. Branghes somewhat triangular, the 
angles rounded. Leaves oblong, chartaceous or membranaceous, 
green when dry, shining, when young with scattered lepidote 
scales on both surfaces, the older ones becoming nearly glabrous, 
38 to 50 cm long, 14 to 20 cm wide, entire, base narrowed, cu- 
neate, apex rather prominently acuminate; lateral nerves about 
26 on each side of the midrib, very prominent on the lower 
surface, the primary reticulations slender, distinct, subparallel; 
petioles 9 to 15 cm long. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, slen- 
der, about 7 cm long, subracemose, few-flowered, densely lepi- 
dote, the flowers fascicled or on very short branches, their pedi- 
cels 1 mm long or less. Sepals ovate, 1.5 mm long, acute, lepi- 
dote, petals 3, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 2.5 mm long, glabrous. 
Ovary very deeply 3-cleft, densely lepidote, lobes ovoid, inequi- 
lateral, about 1.2 mm long. Staminodes 3, shorter than the 
lobes of the ovary. 
British North Borneo, Sandakan, Agama 582, August 22, 
1918. On rocky ridges, altitude about 25 meters. 
This species is well characterized by its very large leaves. It 
is manifestly allied to the Philippine Lunasia macrophylla Merr. 
from which it is easily distinguished by its membranaceous, 
much fewer-nerved leaves and much longer petioles. 
CHISOCHETON Blume 
CHISOCHETON POLYANDRUS sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramis glabris vel subglabris; foliis usque ad 50 
em longis, foliolis plerumque 10, oppositis et alternis, oblongis, 
usque ad 27 cm longis, chartaceis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi 
leviter inaequilateralibus, angustatis, supra pallidis, glabris vel 
costa nervisque plus minusve puberulis vel pubescentibus, sub- 
tus subadpresse hirsutis, nervis utrinque circiter 15; inflores- 
centiis solitariis, in axillis superioribus, angustis, foliis subae- 
quantibus, ut videtur pendulis, longe pedunculatis, partibus 
junioribus ferrugineo-pubescentibus; floribus subfasciculato- 
cymosis, rubris, numerosis, crassis, extus dense ferrugineo- 
pubescentibus, 3 ad 3.5 cm longis; petalis plerumque 6, inferne 
cum tubus stamineus coalitis; tubo stamineo extus glabro, intus 
patule hirsuto, apice laciniato, laciniis numerosis; antheris 12 
ad 14. 
A small tree, the branches dark reddish brown, glabrous or 
nearly so. Leaves up to 50 cm in length, the leaflets opposite 
and alternate, usually 10, oblong, chartaceous, 11 to 27 cm long, 
5 to 7 cm wide, sometimes a few greatly reduced leaflets present 
below, slenderly acuminate, base narrowed, somewhat inequi- 
