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citer 1 mm longis; petalis oblongo-ovatis, 3.5 mm longis, acum- 

 inatis, epunctatis vel cum glandulis 1 vel 2 instructis. 



A shrub, the young branchlets and the inflorescences rather 

 densely cupreous-lepidote, the leaves distinctly but sparingly 

 lepidote on the lower surface. Branches terete, glabrous, brown- 

 ish, slender. Leaves alternate, chartaceous, usually olivaceous 

 when dry, shining, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5.5 to 11 

 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, entire, the base acute, apex slenderly 

 but bluntly acuminate, eglandular or with few glands, the lower 

 surface with scattered, brown or cupreous, minute scales ; lateral 

 nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, 

 anastomosing; petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, 

 paniculate, few-flowered, more or less cupreous-lepidote, the 

 flowers subumbellately arranged on the ultimate branchlets, 

 usually but two or three to a branchlet, their pedicels 5 to 7 

 mm long. Calyx 3 mm in diameter, the lobes oblong-ovate, 

 obtuse, ciliate on the margins, each lobe with 2 to 5 conspicuous 

 glands. Petals oblong-ovate, acuminate, 3.5 mm long, eglandular 

 or with one or two glands. Anthers oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, 2.5 mm long, the connectives slightly glandular. Ovary 

 glabrous; style 2 to 2.5 mm long. 



British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Kemberanga and Gurulau 

 Spur, Mrs. Clemens 10518 (type), 10827, November 15 and 27, 1915. 



This is allied to both Ardisia kinabaluensis Merr. and A. lepidotula 

 Merr., differing from the former conspicuously in its fewer-nerved leaves, 

 and from the latter in its distinct nerves, widely scattered lepidote scales 

 on the lower surface of the leaves, and other characters. 



ARDISIA KINABALUENSIS sp. nov. § Acrardisia. 



Frutex, partibus junioribus minute cupreo-lepidulotis ; foliis 

 alternis, olivaceis vel brunneo-olivaceis, nitidis, oblongis ad 

 oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 9 cm longis, obtuse acuminatis, basi 

 acutis, utrinque punctis multis instructis, nervis utrinque circiter 

 18, tenuibus, distinctis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, circiter 4 cm 

 longis, bipinnatim paniculatis, paucifloris, floribus in ramulis 

 ultimis umbellatim dispositis; floribus circiter 1 cm diametro, 

 calycis lobis oblongo-ovatis, obtusis, circiter 1 mm longis, parce 

 punctatis, margine minute ciliatis ; petalis 5 mm longis, oblongo- 

 ovatis, acuminatis, parce glanduloso-punctatis. 



A shrub, the very young parts distinctly but minutely cupreous- 

 lepidote, the older parts entirely glabrous. Branches terete, 

 brownish or reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves alternate, sub- 

 coriaceous, olivaceous to brownish, shining, oblong to oblong- 

 elliptic, 5 to 9 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, base acute, apex blunt- 

 acuminate, margins entire, both surfaces with numerous, black 



