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long or less. Follicles stipitate, up to 4 cm in length, about 

 2.2 cm wide, somewhat compressed, slightly inequilateral, stipi- 

 tate, subellipsoid, the apex rounded, laterally and obscurely 

 beaked, base acuminate, the pseudostalk about 1 cm long, the 

 pericarp externally irregularly rugose when dry, brownish, shin- 

 ing, entirely glabrous outside and within. Seeds large, some- 

 what compressed, 2 to 2.5 cm long, smooth, dark-brown, shining, 

 the aril bilobed, the lobes broadly ovoid, rounded, up to 1.5 cm 

 long, radiately rugose, the margins undulate. 



Sarawak, Lundu, Foxworthy 35, May 10, 1908, the fruit yellow when 

 fresh, the seed black, and the aril yellow; local name (Dyak) bua tumut. 



This species is strongly characterized by its 3-foliolate leaves, its very 

 thickly coriaceous, glabrous leaflets, and its very depauperate lateral 

 inflorescences. It is not closely allied to any other species known to me; 

 the follicles are entirely glabrous without and within. 



CONNARUS PLUMOSO-STELLATUS sp. nov. 



Frutex ut videtur scandens, ramulis et petiolis et subtus foliis 

 et inflorescentiis densissime ferrugineo-tomentosis, indumento 

 stellato-plumosus ; foliis 14 ad 27 cm longis, 5- vel 7-foliolatis, 

 foliolis oblongis, coriaceis, usque ad 11 cm longis, tenuiter acumi- 

 natis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 5 ad 7, perspicuis; paniculis 

 terminalibus axillaribusque, usque ad 30 cm longis; petalis an- 

 guste oblanceolatis, utrinque glabris, 6.5 ad 8 mm longis. 



A shrub, apparently scandent, the branchlets, petioles, and 

 rachis, lower surface of the leaflets, and the inflorescences very 

 densely ferruginous-pubescent with characteristic stellate-plu- 

 mose hairs. Branches and branchlets terete, brown. Leaves 

 14 to 27 cm long, 5- or 7-foliolate ; leaflets mostly oblong, coria- 

 ceous, 7 to 11 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, the upper surface brown, 

 glabrous, shining, the lower densely tomentose, the apex slen- 

 derly acuminate, base acute ; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each side of 

 the midrib, rather prominent, curved-ascending, anastomosing, 

 the reticulations rather lax, distinct on the lower surface ; petio- 

 lules densely tomentose, 3 mm long or less. Panicles axillary 

 and terminal, up to 30 cm in length, the primary branches up 

 to 10 cm in length, the bracts and bracteoles linear, curved, 

 about 5 mm long, densely tomentose. Flowers yellow. Sepals 

 linear-oblong, 4 to 5 mm long, densely stellate-pubescent. Petals 

 narrowly oblanceolate, 6.5 to 8 mm long, glandular-punctate, 

 glabrous, obtuse or subacute. Five longer filaments 3 to 4 mm 

 long, the five alternating ones 1 to 2 mm in length. Ovary ovoid, 

 very densely stellate-plumose-pubescent, the hairs up to 1.5 mm 

 in length. 



