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the pedicels thickened, densely cinereous-tomentose, 3 to 5 mm 

 long, the bracteoles acicular from a broadened base, about 3 

 mm long, two or three subtending each pedicel. Fruits about 

 1 cm in diameter, each composed of two cocci, pale-brownish 

 when dry, globose, densely and minutely tomentose, and densely 

 covered with stiff, slender, glabrous spine-like processes 3 to 5 

 mm in length. 



British North Borneo, Marutai watershed at Tawau, Villamil 370, 

 May 28, 1917, on damp slopes at low altitudes. 



This species is very closely allied to the Philippine Mallotus auriculatus 

 Merr., from which it is distinguished by its thicker, entire, rather more 

 numerously nerved leaves, which are rather densely glandular beneath; in 

 having but a single pair of basal glands; and in its densely tomentose 

 cocci, which are much more densely spiny, the spines distinctly longer 

 than in the Philippine form. 



MALLOTUS CAUDATUS sp. nov § Azenfeldia. 



Frutex circiter 3 m altus, ramulis junioribus et inflorescentiis 

 parce et decidue tomentosus, ramis elenticellatis, ramulis an- 

 gulato-striatis ; foliis oppositis, leviter inaequimagnis, membra- 

 naceis vel subchartaceis, oblongis ad late oblongo-oblanceolatis, 

 subolivaceis, nitidis, usque ad 25 cm longis, supra glabris, subtus 

 parce glandulosis, basi obtusis, leviter cordatis, bimaculato- 

 glandulosis, apice tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, nervis utrinque 

 6 ad 9, subtus valde prominentibus, reticulis laxis ; inf ructescen- 

 tiis usque ad 13 cm longis, simpliciter racemosis; fructibus 

 junioribus subglobosis, breviter pedicellatis, circiter 1 cm diame- 

 tro, granuloso-glandulosis, densissime puberulis, molliter echi- 

 natis. 



A shrub about 3 m high, nearly glabrous (fruits excepted), 

 the younger branchlets and the inflorescences sparingly and 

 deciduously tomentose. Branches terete, pale-brownish, gla- 

 brous, not at all lenticellate, the branchlets angular-striate, pale 

 reddish-brown. Leaves opposite, those of each pair slightly un- 

 equal in size, membranaceous to subchartaceous, pale-olivaceous, 

 shining, oblong to broadly oblong-oblanceolate, entire, 15 to 25 

 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, the upper surface smooth, glabrous, 

 not at all glandular, the lower with widely scattered, distinct, 

 orange-yellow to brown, granulose glands, the apex slenderly 

 caudate-acuminate, the acumen up to 3 cm in length, the base ob- 

 tuse, distinctly but minutely cordate, and with two distinct glands 

 on the upper surface; lateral nerves 6 to 9 on each side of the 

 midrib, very prominent on the lower surface, curved-ascending, 

 anastomosing, the primary reticulations lax, subparallel, prom- 

 inent; petioles 2 to 6 cm long, glabrous. Infructescences sim- 



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