xiii, c, 2 Merrill: New Species of Bornmn Plants H5 



or dark-colored glands, these often visible to the naked eye; 

 lateral nerves about 18 on each side of the midrib, slender, dis- 

 tinct on both surfaces ; petioles 2 to 3 mm long. Panicles bipin- 

 nate, terminal, few-flowered, about 4 cm long, the flowers um- 

 bellately arranged at the tips of the ultimate branchlets, their 

 pedicels up to 7 mm in length. Flowers (spread) about 1 cm 

 in diameter. Calyx about 3 mm in diameter, the lobes oblong- 

 ovate, obtuse, sparingly glandular, 1 mm long, their margins 

 minutely ciliate. Petals 5 mm long, oblong-ovate, acuminate, 

 sparingly glandular-punctate. Anthers oblong-lanceolate, acum- 

 inate, 3 mm long, the connectives not glandular. Ovary glab- 

 rous; style 3.5 mm long, not exserted in bud. 



British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Kemberanga, and Paka Cave 

 to Low's Peak, ascending to an altitude of 3,350 meters, Mrs. Clemens 10517 

 (type), 10663, 10663a, November 12 to 15, 1915, Haslam, August, 1916. 



This species is manifestly allied to the Philippine Ardisia scabrida Mez, 

 from which it is distinguished, among other characters, by its thicker 

 leaves, and obtuse, distinctly ciliate sepals. 



ARDISIA LEPIDOTULA sp. nov. § Acrardisia. 



Frutex circiter 1.5 m altus, ramulis et inflorescentiis et subtus 

 foliis junioribus dense ferrugineo- ad cupreo-lepidotulis ; foliis 

 oblongis, petiolatis, chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, integris, usque ad 

 8 cm longis, brunneis vel olivaceis, basi acutis, apice distincte 

 sed obtuse acuminatis, utrinque minutissime puncticulatis, nervis 

 primariis utrinque circiter 12, tenuibus, indistinctis, interdum 

 subobsoletis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 2 ad 4 cm longis, pauci- 

 floris, tripinnatim paniculatis, floribus parvis, in ramulis ultimis 

 umbellatim dispositis; sepalis oblongo-ovatis, obtusis, circiter 1 

 mm longis, glandulosis, margine leviter ciliatis; petalis parce 

 glandulosis, circiter 3 mm longis. 



A shrub about 1.5 m high, the young branchlets, lower surface 

 of the younger leaves, and the inflorescences densely and min- 

 utely ferruginous- to cupreous-lepidulote, the very old leaves glab- 

 rous or nearly so. Branches terete, grayish-brown, rugose, 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, oblong, 

 4 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, entire, brownish or olivaceous 

 and more or less shining when dry, base acute, apex distinctly but 

 bluntly acuminate, the midrib usually impressed on the upper 

 surface, prominent on the lower surface, both surfaces very 

 minutely and obscurely puncticulate ; primary lateral nerves 

 about 12 on each side of the midrib, very slender, usually obscure, 

 often nearly obsolete; petioles about 5 mm long, ultimately glab- 

 rous, when young densely cupreous-lepidote. Panicles termi- 



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