xiii, c, 2 Merrill: New Species of Bornean Plants 117 



merits about 3 mm long; anthers oblong-lanceolate, subcaudate- 

 acuminate, 5 to 6 mm long, the connectives sparingly glandular. 



Sarawak, Baram District, Marudi, Hose 585, April, 1905. 



This species is well characterized by its unusually large flowers, in the 

 characters of these differing entirely from Ardisia polyactis Mez, to which 

 it is apparently most closely allied; in vegetative characters it closely 

 approximates Mez's species. 



OLEACEAE 



LINOCIERA Swartz 

 LINOCIERA MACROBOTRYS sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber, ramulis laevis, teretibus, rubro-brunneis ; foliis 

 coriaceis, oblongis, subolivaceis, utrinque subconcoloribus, nitidis, 

 usque ad 6 cm longis, subtus minute puncticulatis, utrinque acutis 

 vel apice obscure acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, tenuibus, 

 obscuris, interdum obsoletis vel subobsoletis, subtus leviter im- 

 pressis, reticulis obsoletis ; inflorescentiis usque ad 15 cm longis, 

 amplis, multifloris, laxis, ramis inferioribus usque ad 9 cm longis 

 quadripinnatim paniculatis ; floribus tenuiter pedicellatis, 4-meris, 

 circiter 4 mm longis, petalis basi leviter connatis, oblongis, 

 obtusis. 



A shrub 2 m high fide Foxworthy, entirely glabrous in all parts, 

 the branches terete, smooth, reddish-brown, sometimes slightly 

 glaucous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, 5 to 6 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm 

 wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and apex, or the 

 apex slightly acuminate, margins usually recurved, entire, when 

 dry subolivaceous to brownish-olivaceous, of about the same color 

 and shining on both surfaces, the lower surface minutely puncti- 

 culate, the midrib impressed on the upper surface, somewhat 

 prominent on the lower surface; lateral nerves very slender, 

 obscure, sometimes obsolete or nearly so, about 6 on each side 

 of the midrib, not anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete, often 

 very slightly impressed on the lower surface; petioles about 5 

 mm long. Panicles terminal and lateral, ample, 4-pinnately 

 paniculate, up to 15 cm in length, branched from near the base, 

 the lower branches up to 9 cm in length, lax, many-flowered, the 

 bracts deciduous, about 3 mm long, the rachis and branches 

 reddish-brown when dry. Flowers yellowish, brown when dry, 

 4-merous, about 2 mm long, their pedicels 2 to 3 mm in length. 

 Calyx-teeth triangular-ovate, acute, 0.5 mm long. Petals some- 

 what united, oblong, obtuse. Anthers 1.2 mm long, the connec- 

 tives very broad. 



