xiii, c, 2 Merrill: New Species of Bornean Plants 73 



SARAWAK, Matang Road near Kuching, Native collector 1062, 725 

 (type), the latter collected May 31, 1901; Samatan, Foxworthy 157, in 

 swampy places, May 20, 1908, with the Dyak name guid malam. 



This species is readily recognizable by its very dense and characteristic, 

 ferruginous, stellate-plumose indumentum. From Blume's entirely inad- 

 equate description it might be Tricholobus ferrugineus Blume Mus. 1 

 (1850) 237, which King considers to be the same as Connams ferrugineus 

 Jack, a species entirely different from the present one, but which Schel- 

 lenberg, 5 who has examined Blume's type specimen, states is identical 

 with Connarus hebephyllus King. It seems, on the whole, to be closely 

 allied to the Sumatran Tricholobus fulvus Blume, and may prove to be 

 identical with Blume's species; however, Blume's specific name is invalid 

 in Connarus, so that I have not hesitated in describing the present species 

 under a different specific name. 



LEGUMINOSAE 

 CRUDIA Schreber 

 CRUDIA RETICULATA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 7 m alta, glabra, ramulis tenuibus; foliis 2- 

 vel 3-foliolatis, foliolis chartaceis, oblongis, usque ad 23 cm longis, 

 in siccitate pallide brunneis, basi rotundatis ad subacutis, apice 

 tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 

 10, supra plus minusve impressis, subtus cum reticulis laxis valde 

 prominulis, arcuato-anastomosantibus ; leguminis inaequilatera- 

 libus, oblongo-falcatis, usque ad 10 cm longis et 3 cm latis, 

 obtusis, valvis crasse coriaceis, laxe reticulatis. 



A tree about 7 m high, entirely glabrous (flowers unknown), 

 the branches and branchlets terete, brownish, the latter slender. 

 Leaves 2- or 3-foliolate, the petiole and rachis 2 to 4 cm long, 

 the latter slightly projecting above the ultimate petiolule; leaflets 

 in general oblong, chartaceous, pale-brownish and shining when 

 dry, 15 to 23 cm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, the apex slenderly caudate- 

 acuminate, the acumen blunt, up to 3.5 cm in length, base 

 rounded to subacute; primary lateral nerves about 10 on each 

 side of the midrib, on the upper surface with the midrib and 

 arcuate marginal nerves somewhat impressed, on the lower sur- 

 face with the lax reticulations very prominent, arched-anastomos- 

 ing 5 to 10 mm from the edge of the leaf; petiolules brown, 

 rugose, 5 mm long or less; stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 about 7 mm long. Pods oblong, somewhat inequilaterally fal- 

 cate, obtuse, 8 to 10 cm long, about 3 cm wide, one suture 

 nearly straight, the other curved, the valves glabrous, laxly 

 reticulate, coriaceous, brown and often slightly glaucous when 



•Beitr. Vergleich. Anat. Connar. (1910) 75. 



