21,6 Merrill: The Bornean Flora 531 
1 mm long, very obscurely pubescent above; style as long as the 
ovary. 
British North Borneo, Sandakan, Suanlamba watershed, Cas- 
tillo 618, August 22,1918. At the base of a rocky ridge, altitude 
about 20 meters. 
This species is distinctly allied to the Philippine Rinorea acu- 
minata Merr. but differs in being nearly glabrous and by its 
much longer petioles; the leaf axils beneath are not glandular 
or bearded. 
ALANGIUM Lamarck 
ALANGIUM MEYERI Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1905) 54; 
Wang. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 41 (1910) 15. 
British North Borneo, Suanlamba River, Agama 560, August 
7, 1918. A widely distributed Philippine species, this being its 
first extra-Philippine record. 
DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 
DIOSPYROS TOPSIOIDES King & Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 74? 
: (1905) 223. 
British North Borneo, Suanlamba River, Castillo 638, August 
26, 1918, with the Malay name kayu arang. 
Malay Peninsula (Perak). I suspect that the Bornean speci- 
men, Beccari 3052, referred by Hiern to the Indian Diospyros 
topsia Ham. will prove to be this species rather than the one 
Hamilton described. 
TABERNAEMONTANA Linnaeus 
TABERNAEMONTANA POLYSPERMA sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, ramis ramulisque tenuibus; foliis brevissime 
petiolatis, in paribus aequalibus vel leviter inaequalibus, mem- 
branaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-obovatis, usque ad 24 cm longis, 
utrinque angustatis, basi acutis, apice tenuiter caudato-acumin- 
atis, nervis utrinque 15 ad 20, tenuibus, curvatis; cymis axil- 
laribus, pedunculatis, laxis, paucifloris, 12 ad 14 em longis; 
floribus circiter 2.5 cm diametro, corollae tubo 2 ad 2.5 em longo; 
folliculis divaricatis, subcylindraceis, 4 ad 5 cm longis, circiter 
2 cm diametro, obscure tricarinatis, acutis, pericarpio crusta- 
ceo; seminibus circiter 20. 
A glabrous shrub about 3 m high, the branches and branch- 
lets slender, terete, or the branchlets somewhat compressed, the 
internodes 6 to 138 cm long. Leaves in equal or somewhat un- 
equal pairs, membranaceous, oblong to oblong-obovate, 7 to 24 
cm long, 3 to 9 cm wide, narrowed at both ends, the base acute, 
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