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racemelike, 8 to 11 cm long, all parts very densely castaneous- 
pubescent with stellate hairs, the branches at most 5 mm long, 
1- to 3-flowered. Flowers about 12 mm long, very densely cas- 
taneous-pubescent with stellate hairs, the tube broad, about 3 
mm long, the lobes free, erect, ultimately spreading, not at all 
cohering, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 10 mm long. Ovary 
ovoid, densely fulvous-hirsute, the stalk glabrous, about 2.5 mm 
long; style densely fulvous-hirsute, recurved, about 3 mm long. 
Staminate flowers similar to the perfect ones, the androphore 
glabrous, about 3.5 mm long. 
Sarawak, Baram District, Hose 97, March, 1915. 
This species is characterized by its very slenderly caudate- 
acuminate leaves and its racemelike, relatively short panicles. 
It is apparently as closely allied to Sterculia scortechinii King 
as to any other described species. 
STERCULIA LONGIPETIOLATA sp. nov. 
Arbor inflorescentiis leviter castaneo-pubescentibus exceptis 
glabra; ramulis circiter 1 cm diametro, stipulis numerosissimis 
circiter 5 cm longis, anguste lanceolatis, glabris acuminatis; 
foliis oblongo-obovatis, longe petiolatis, subcoriaceis, acuminatis, 
basi leviter cordatis, circiter 50 cm longis, nervis utrinque cir- 
citer 10, valde perspicuis; paniculis tenuibus, angustis, circiter 
30 em longis, leviter castaneo-pubescentibus; floribus circiter 
8 mm longis, lobis lineari-lanceolatis, arcuatis, coherentibus, 3.5 
mm longis. 
A tree, nearly glabrous except the somewhat castaneous- 
pubescent inflorescences. . Ultimate branches terete, about 1 cm 
in diameter, somewhat pubescent, terminated by a dense crown 
of narrowly lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, brown, shining, 
slenderly acuminate-stipules or stipulelike bracts about 5 cm 
long, 6 to 8 mm wide. Leaves oblong-obovate, subcoriaceous, 
acuminate, base rounded or slightly cordate, up to 50 cm long 
and 20 em wide, pale brownish when dry, shining, glabrous or 
the midrib beneath slightly stellate-pubescent with scattered 
ferruginous hairs; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the 
midrib, very prominent, curved, anastomosing, the reticulations 
very distinct on the lower surface; petioles 9 to 12 cm long, 
stout, thickened at base and apex, slightly pubescent, ultimately 
glabrous. Panicles rather slender, narrow, about 30 cm long, 
somewhat castaneous-pubescent, the branches spreading, 2 to 4 
em long. Flowers slightly pubescent, about 8 mm long, the tube 
oblong-ovoid, the lobes linear-lanceolate, hirsute inside, about 
