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ranged, curved, anastomosing, the primary reticulations very 

 lax, distinct, subparallel ; petioles 5 to 6 cm long ; stipules lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, puberulent, about 7 mm long. Pistillate racemes 

 simple, leaf-opposed, about 7 cm long, few-flowered, rather 

 densely hirsute with stiff, pale-yellowish, more or less deciduous 

 hairs, the pedicels about 1 cm long, the subtending bracteoles 

 ovate, obtuse, 2 mm long or less. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 

 hirsute, 5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, densely hirsute and also 

 densely covered with long-stipitate glandular-capitate, hair-like 

 papillae 2 to 2.5 mm in length ; styles stout, 8 mm long, densely 

 papillate. 



British North Borneo, Marutai, near Tawau, D. D. Wood A51, June 

 6, 1917, back of the mangrove swamp. 



A strongly characterized species apparently as closely allied to Mallotus 

 calvus Pax & K. Hoffm. as to any other species, but with fewer-nerved 

 leaves, few-flowered racemes, much larger pistillate flowers, and hirsute 

 and also densely long-stipitate, glandular-capitate ovaries. The leaf- 

 opposed simple racemes are characteristic. 



MALLOTUS AFFINIS sp. nov. § Axenfeldia. 



Arbor circiter 12 m alta, subtus foliis ad costa nervisque parce 

 ciliato-villosis, inflorescentiis plus minusve tomentosis; foliis 

 omnibus alternis, oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-obovatis, subco- 

 riaceis, usque ad 13 cm longis, abrupte acuminatis et minute 

 apiculatis, integerrimis, basi minute biauriculatis et perspicue 

 biglandulosis, subtus dense glandulosis, glandulis immersis ; ner- 

 vis utrinque circiter 10, subtus prominentibus, reticulis primariis 

 prominentibus, parallelis ; infructescentiis axillaribus, 6 ad 9 cm 

 longis, simpliciter racemosis; capsulis dicoccis, circiter 1 cm 

 diametro, densissime pallide stellato-tomentosis et dense echinatis. 



A tree about 12 m high, the branches terete, brownish- 

 olivaceous, glabrous, smooth, the young branchlets slightly pubes- 

 cent, the indumentum mostly of short simple hairs with a few 

 stellate ones intermixed. Leaves all alternate, oblong-elliptic to 

 oblong-obovate, entire, 8 to 13 cm long, 3.5 to 5.5 cm wide, 

 rather prominently acuminate, the acumen stout, 1 cm long or 

 less and minutely apicujate, base narrowed, minutely biauriculate 

 and distinctly 2-glandular, the glands impressed on the upper 

 surface, the upper surface grayish, shining, smooth, eglandular, 

 the lower paler, rather densely glandular, the glands immersed; 

 lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, very pro- 

 minent on the lower surface, curved, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions prominent, parallel; petioles 3 to 5 cm long, thickened at 

 their apices ; stipules acicular, 3 to 5 mm long. Inf ructescences 

 axillary, simply racemose, 6 to 9 cm long, sparingly pubescent, 



