xiii, c,2 Merrill: New Species of Bornean Plants 107 



lets and inflorescences. Branches and branchlets brown when 

 dry, slender, terete, more or less lenticellate, slightly striate. 

 Leaves membranaceous to chartaceous, oblong-ovate to oblong, 

 7 to 11 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, pale-olivaceous and shining 

 when dry, the base rounded to acute, the apex distinctly acumi- 

 nate, the margins distantly dentate with short, stout, blunt, 

 subrostrate or apiculate teeth, the basal parts entire or nearly 

 so ; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 

 curved, scarcely anastomosing, the nerves and their ultimate 

 branches ending in marginal teeth, the reticulations indistinct, 

 the lower surface with numerous, manifest, nerve-like lines; 

 petioles 0.8 to 1.3 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, about as long 

 as the petioles, depauperate-paniculate, rather few-flowered. 

 Flowers white or cream-colored, 5-merous, about 3 mm long, 

 their pedicels 2 mm long, the bracteole subtending the pedicels 

 oblong, acuminate, less than 1 mm long, the two prophyllae sub- 

 tending the flower similar to the bracteoles but slightly smaller. 

 Calyx distinctly lineate, the lobes ovate, acuminate, about 1 mm 

 long, their margins very minutely ciliate. Petals connate for 

 about two-thirds their length, the tube not lineate, the lobes sub- 

 reniform-ovate, rounded, lineate, about 0.8 mm long and 1.5 mm 

 wide. Filaments attached near the base of the tube, three to 

 four times as long as the anthers. 



British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Minitindok and Lobansr Go*-#?s, 

 and Kiau, Mrs. Clemens 10UU (type), 10102, 10U62, November 19 and 29, 

 1915. 



The alliance of this species is with Maesa montana A. DC, from which 

 it differs notably in its differently shaped, shortly acuminate leaves, and 

 numerous other characters. 



MAESA CONFERTA sp. nov. 



Species ut videtur M. japonicae affinis. Frutex glaberrimus, 

 ramis nitidis, griseis vel brunneis; foliis submembranaceis vel 

 chartaceis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 17 cm 

 longis, nitidis, epuncticulatis, basi subacutis, apice tenuiter acu- 

 minatis, margine distanter apiculato-dentatis vel subintegris, 

 nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, curvato-adscendentibus, perspicuis, anas- 

 tomosantibus ; infructescentiis axillaribus, quam petiolis brevio- 

 ribus, fructibus valde confertis, ovoideis, circiter 5 mm longis, 

 perspicue longitudinaliter striato-lineatis ; calycis lobis 5, ovatis, 

 obtusis ad subacutis, lineatis, glabris, integris, circiter 1.5 mm 

 longis. 



An entirely glabrous shrub, the branches terete, grayish to 

 brownish, shining, elenticellate. Leaves submembranaceous to 

 chartaceous, pale-olivaceous and shining when dry, not puncticu- 



