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4 to 5 cm wide, apex distinctly acuminate, base subrounded; 

 lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, slender, indis- 

 tinct, as are the reticulations, curved, anastomosing; petiolules 

 up to 8 mm in length. Panicles terminal, branched from the 

 base, the branches up to 20 cm in length, densely many-flowered, 

 the flowers crowded on the ultimate branchlets, their pedicels 1 

 mm long or less, ebracteolate. Sepals pubescent, obtuse, nar- 

 rowly oblong, about 1.5 mm long. Petals rather densely pale- 

 or subfulvous-puberulent on both surfaces, narrowly lanceolate, 

 about 6 mm long and 1.4 mm wide. Longer filaments 5 mm 

 long, the shorter ones 1.2 mm in length. Ovary ovoid, the style 

 2 mm in length, both densely fulvous-pubescent. 



Sarawak, Retuh, Sadong, Native collector 2550 Bur. Sci. 



This species is well characterized by its 5-foliolate, entirely glabrous 

 leaves, thickly coriaceous, obscurely nerved leaflets, and densely flowered 

 inflorescences, which are terminal and branched from the base. The leaflets 

 somewhat resemble those of Connarus pachyphyllus Merr., but the nerves 

 are obscure, while the inflorescence is entirely different from the infruc- 

 tescence of the latter species. 



CONNARUS PACHYPHYLLUS sp. nov. 



Arbor, ut videtur glabra, ramis perspicue verruculoso-lenti- 

 cellatis; foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis crassissime coriaceis, ellipticis 

 ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 11 cm longis, in siccitate brunneis 

 vel olivaceo-brunneis, nitidis, basi rotundatis vel leviter cordatis, 

 apice latissime et obtuse breviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 9, haud prominentibus ; infructescentiis depauperato- 

 cymosis vel paniculatis, lateralibus, folliculis exceptis circiter 

 2.5 cm longis; folliculis leviter inaequilateralibus, longe stipita- 

 tis, leviter compressis, 3.5 ad 4 cm longis, subellipsoideis, apice 

 rotundatis, basi acuminatis, extus irregulariter rugosis, glabris, 

 nitidis, intus glabris. 



A tree, fide Foxworthy, apparently glabrous throughout (inflo- 

 rescences not seen). Branches terete, grayish-brown, glabrous, 

 prominently verruculose-lenticellate. Leaves about 20 cm long, 

 3-foliolate, the petiole and rachis about 8 cm long, brownish, 

 rugose, shining. Leaflets very thickly coriaceous, elliptic to 

 oblong-elliptic, 9 to 11 cm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, base broadly 

 rounded to subcordate, apex shortly and obtusely acuminate, 

 margins recurved, when dry brownish or brownish-olivaceous, 

 prominently shining, the upper surface smooth; lateral nerves 

 about 9 on each side of- the midrib, rather distinct but not 

 prominent, anastomosing, the reticulations rather lax ; petiolules 

 6 to 8 mm long, rugose, glabrous. Infructescences lateral, a 

 depauperate cyme or panicle, the rachis and branches 2.5 cm 



