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the glands distinctly visible to the naked eye; primary lateral 

 nerves about 25 on each side of the midrib, spreading, anasto- 

 mosing, distinct on the lower surface, the reticulations lax; 

 petioles stout, about 5 mm long. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, 

 peduncled, about 10 cm long, bipinnate, the flowers subumbellately 

 arranged at the tips of the primary branches, the branches 

 alternate, the lower ones 3 cm long or less. Flowers pink, 6 

 to 12 in each umbel, their pedicels 7 to 9 mm long. Sepals 

 elliptic-ovate, acute or obtuse, about 3 mm long, prominently 

 glandular, margins sparingly ciliate, distinctly imbricate in the 

 basal parts, nearly free. Petals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 about 6 mm long and 3 mm wide, the upper part with few, 

 scattered, large glands, the median portion of the lower half 

 densely punctate-glandular with small glands. Anthers oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, about 4 mm long, the connectives not 

 glandular. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style 4.5 mm long, not 

 exserted in bud. 



Sarawak, Mount Poe, Foxworthy 201, May 24, 1908, altitude about 1,300 

 meters. 



This species falls in the group with Ardisia lanceolata Roxb., but is 

 not closely allied to that species. It is well characterized by its purplish- 

 brown, oblong, obscurely undulate, prominently punctate, short-petioled, 

 obtuso leaves. 



ARDISIA PYGMAEA sp. nov. § Bladhia. 



Suffrutex usque ad 20 cm altus, glaber, caulibus simplicibus, 

 erectis vel infra decumbens ; f oliis conf ertis, obovatis ad oblongo- 

 obovatis, integris, usque ad 13 cm longis, chartaceis ad subcoria- 

 ceis, apice rotundatis, basi acutis vel subacutis, breviter petiolatis, 

 nervis utrinque 12 ad 15, distinctis; inflorescentiis in axillis 

 superioribus, usque ad 8 cm longis, simpliciter racemosis ; calycis 

 lobis ovatis, acuminatis, perspicue glandulosis, margine ciliatis, 

 circiter 1.5 mm longis; fructibus globosis, glabris, circiter 6 

 mm diametro. 



A dwarfed, erect, simple undershrub about 20 cm high, the 

 stems erect or decumbent below, woody, up to 5 mm in diameter, 

 dark-brown. Leaves crowded toward the apices of the stems, 

 olivaceous, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, obovate to oblong- 

 obovate, 8 to 13 cm long, 4. to 5.5 cm wide, glabrous, epunctate 

 or with but few glands, apex broadly rounded, narrowed below 

 to the acute or subacute base, the margins entire ; lateral nerves 

 12 to 15 on each side of the midrib, distinct; petioles 4 to 7 

 mm long. Racemes simple, erect, up to 8 cm long, in the upper 

 axils, glabrous. Pedicels 3 to 4 mm long, recurved, the subtend- 

 ing bracteoles ovate to oblong-ovate, prominently glandular, up 



