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late, oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 12 to 17 cm long, 4 to 

 6.5 cm wide, base subacute, the apex slenderly acuminate, the 

 acumen subacute, up to 2 cm in length, the margins very dis- 

 tantly apiculate-dentate, the teeth always short, sometimes obso- 

 lete and the margins entire or nearly so; lateral nerves 5 or 6 

 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent, curved-ascending, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations lax, indistinct; petioles about 1 

 cm long. Infructescences axillary, shorter than the petioles, of 

 solitary or paired, simple racemes, the rachis 5 mm long or 

 less. Fruits ovoid, brown, about 5 mm long, prominently striate- 

 lineate, their pedicels 2 mm long or less, the bracteoles minute, 

 0.4 mm long or less. Persistent calyx-teeth 5, ovate, obtuse to 

 subacute, entire, glabrous, prominently lineate, 1.5 mm long. 

 Seeds numerous, sharply angled, quadrangular, about 1 mm in 

 diameter. 



British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Kiau, Mrs. Clemens 9969 

 (type), 9968, November 29, 1917, "fruit greenish-brown, pale-striped." 



While the flowers of this species are unknown, I feel rather confident 

 that its alliance is with Maesa japonica (Thunb.) Moritzi, which it resem- 

 bles in its vegetative characters and especially in its fruits. It is well 

 characterized by its very short infructescences, which are distinctly shorter 

 than the petioles, and its crowded fruits. 



ARDISIA Swartz 

 ARDISIA MOULTONII sp. nov. § Tinopsis. 



Frutex vel arbor, ramis griseis, teretibus, glabris, ramulis 

 junioribus et inflorescentiis dense brunneo- vel castaneo-furfur- 

 aceis; foliis oblongis, coriaceis, nitidis, epunctatis, integris, 

 usque ad 20 cm longis, basi acutis, apice acuminatis, nervis 

 primariis utrinque circiter 35, distinctis vel indistinctis ; inflo- 

 rescentiis terminalibus, usque ad 12 cm longis, tripinnatim pani- 

 culatis, floribus in ramulis ultimis subumbellatim dispositis, con- 

 fertis, breviter et crasse pedicellatis, calycis tubo obconico, 3 

 ad 4 mm longo, lobis late ovatis, valde imbricatis, acutis vel 

 acuminatis, circiter 6 mm longis, coriaceis, obscure punctatis, 

 margine ciliatis. 



A shrub or tree, glabrous except the distinctly and rather 

 densely brownish- to castaneous-lepidote branchlets and inflores- 

 cences, the leaves often minutely lepidote. Branches terete, 

 grayish. Leaves alternate, oblong, coriaceous, somewhat shin- 

 ing, brownish-olivaceous, of about the same color on both sur- 

 faces, epunctate, 12 to 20 cm long, 2.5 to 7 cm wide, subequally 

 narrowed to the acute base and the somewhat acuminate apex, 

 entire, the midrib somewhat impressed on the upper surface, 

 very prominent on the lower surface; lateral nerves about 25 



