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wide, subopposite or subverticillate. Flowers dull-red. Sepals 

 of fully mature flowers up to 12 mm in length, the petals about 

 as long as but broader than the sepals. Fruiting pedicels up 

 to 8 cm in length, the carpels as many as 11, of which two or 

 three are usually aborted, the individual carpels about 12 mm 

 long, lanceolate, acuminate, spreading. 



British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Marai Parai Spur, Mrs. 

 Clemens 10995, 11081, 10949, November 22 and December 1 and 3, 1915, 

 a shrub or small tree 2 to 6 m high. 



The specimens agree with Stapf's diagnosis based on Haviland 1272 

 from Kinataki, Mount Kinabalu, and I have no doubt that they represent 

 the same species. Stapf considered that the species was perhaps most 

 closely allied to Illicium cambodianum Hance, which Finet & Gagnepain 

 place as a variety of Illicium griffithii Hook. f. & Th. My specimens 

 of Illicium cambodianum Hance differ remarkably from this Bornean form 

 in their smaller, very obscurely and fewer-nerved leaves. 



CONNARACEAE 



CONNARUS Linnaeus 

 CONNARUS AGAMAE sp. nov. 



Arbor fide Agama, partibus junioribus minute subferrugineo- 

 pubescens, ramis ramulisque crassis, teretibus; foliis 3-foliolatis, 

 foliolis subcoriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 23 

 cm longis, basi rotundatis, apice acuminatis, supra pallidis, niti- 

 dis, subtus ad costa nervisque minute puberulis, nervis utrinque 

 13 ad 15, subtus prominent ibu s ; paniculis axillaribus terminali- 

 busque, sub f ructu usque ad 35 cm longis ; f olliculis inaequilatera- 

 liter obovoideis, leviter compressis, crasse carinatis, 5 ad 6 cm 

 longis, apice lateraliter breviter rostratis, basi cuneatis, extus 

 glabris, brunneis, nitidis, oblique striatis, intus densissime sim- 

 pliciter tomentosis. 



A tree fide Agama, the older parts glabrous, the branchlets, 

 inflorescences, and lower surface of the leaflets minutely sub- 

 ferruginous-puberulent. Branches and branchlets terete, stout, 

 the former about 8 mm in diameter, glabrous, brownish, spar- 

 ingly lenticellate, the latter subferruginous-puberulent. Leaves 

 3-foliolate, or the uppermost ones 1-foliolate, the petiole and 

 rachis up to 17 cm in length; leaflets oblong to oblong-elliptic, 

 subcoriaceous, 17 to 23 cm long, 7 to 10 cm wide, somewhat 

 acuminate, base rounded, the upper surface pale, shining, gla- 

 brous, the lower minutely puberulent especially along the midrib 

 and lateral nerves; lateral nerves 13 to 15 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent, somewhat curved, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions slender, rather distinct ; petiolules stout, rugose, puberulent, 

 or ultimately glabrous. Panicles axillary and terminal, in fruit 



