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ing, anastomosing, the reticulations fine, close, not prominent; 

 petiolules about 5 mm long. Panicles axillary and terminal, 

 up to 25 cm in length, the lower branches up to 20 cm long, 

 more or less ferruginous-puberulent or pubescent, or the in- 

 dumentum dark-brown, the bracts and bracteoles 1 mm long or 

 less. Flowers about 5 mm long, their pedicels 1 mm long or 

 less. Sepals narrowly oblong, pubescent, obtuse, about 2.6 mm 

 long, sparingly black glandular-punctate. Petals twice as long 

 as the sepals, glabrous, oblanceolate, obtuse, about 1.4 mm wide 

 above, distinctly black glandular-punctate. Longer filaments 5 

 mm, the shorter ones less than 1 mm, in length. Ovary ovoid, 

 pubescent; style about 2 mm long. Follicles obliquely obovoid, 

 slightly compressed, including the stipe about 3 cm long, 1.5 

 mm wide, the apex broadly rounded, with a short, lateral, acute 

 beak, the base gradually narrowed, cuneate, the stipe about 6 

 mm long, the pericarp coriaceous, brown and shining when dry, 

 obliquely and finely striate, when young sparingly pubescent 

 outside, soon becoming glabrous, inside sparingly hirsute with 

 widely scattered, appressed, simple hairs. 



Sarawak, Mount Santubong, Native collector 2361 (type) Bur. Sci., 

 without locality Native collector 2U0 Bur. Sci.; British North Borneo, 

 Sandakan, Villamil 191, March 22, 1916. 



This species may be distinguished by its glabrous petals, which are 

 twice as long as the sepals; its ample paniculate inflorescences; and its 

 follicles, which are sparingly hirsute inside with widely scattered, appressed, 

 simple hairs. 



CONNARUS DENSIFLORUS sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor, ramulis junioribus et inflorescentiis dense 

 subf errugineo-pubescens, ramis glabris, verruculoso-lenticellatis ; 

 foliis circiter 13 cm longis, 5-foliolatis, foliolis crasse coriaceis, 

 ellipticis, usque ad 8 cm longis, pallide brunneis, nitidis, acumi- 

 natis, basi subrotundatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, tenuibus, obscu- 

 ris; inflorescentiis terminalibus, circiter 20 cm longis, e basi 

 ramosis, ramis valde elongatis; floribus numerosis, in ramulis 

 ultimis dense confertis, circiter 5.5 mm longis, petalis quam 

 sepalis quadruplo longioribus, anguste lanceolatis, utrinque 

 puberulis. 



A shrub or tree, possibly scandent, the very young branchlets 

 and the inflorescences rather densely subferruginous-pubescent 

 or puberulent with short, simple hairs. Branches terete, brown- 

 ish, about 5 mm in diameter, rather prominently verruculose- 

 lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves about 13 cm long, the rachis and 

 petiole 6 to 7 cm long, glabrous. Leaflets thickly coriaceous, 

 subelliptic, pale-brownish when dry, shining, 6 to 8 cm long, 



