136 DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU 
MALVACE. 
HIBISCUS ABELMOSCHUS, Linné, Spec. Plant. ed. I. 696. 
In rice-fields at Kiau, among long grass and reeds (Burbidge). 
Distribution : Tropical Asia and Africa; cultivated also in Tropical America. 
From a fine coloured sketch by Mr. Burbidge. 
STERCULIACE.E. 
STERCULIA TRANSLUCENS, Stapf, n. sp. Ramuli pube rigidulà patulà et insuper pilis 
longioribus sparsis vestiti, fulvo-brunei. Folia petiolo 6-10 lin. longo, indumento 
ramulorum consimili vestito, sub apice subito incrassato suffulta, oblonga vel 
oblongo-lanceolata, 3-5 poll. longa, 2-11 poll. lata, basi acuta, acuminata, integra, 
utrinque glaberrima, nitidula vel supra tandem opaca, membranacea, translucida, 
nervis lateralibus utrinque 7-8 valde prorsus ductis, subtus prominulis. Racemi in 
axillis foliorum superiorum, 3-4 poll. longi, graciles, pilis patulis rufis hirsuti. 
Flores 3-5, fasciculati in axillis bractearum lineari-lanceolatarum. Pedicelli 3-14 
lin. longi, hirsuti. Calyx oblongo-tubulosus, patule hirsutus; tubus circa 3 lin. 
longus, 14 lin. latus ; lobi lanceolato-subulati, conniventes, 2 lin. longi. Anthere 
vix 10 in apice columnee 13 lin. longee arcte congestee. 
At 5000 feet (Haviland, 1196). ; 
S. translucens belongs to the section Eu-Sterculia and is nearest allied to S. gracilis, 
Korth., S. rubiginosa, Vent., S. ensifolia, Mast., and still more nearly to an unnamed 
species which was collected at Penang by C. Curtis (no. 526). But the calyx-tube is longer 
in S. translucens than in any one of them, and almost of exactly the same shape as in an 
undescribed species from Sarawak (Beccari, 1057), which, however, differs totally in the 
leaves. 
TILIACEA. 
TRIUMFETTA RHOMBOIDEA, Jacq. Select. Am. 147, t. xc. 
On the banks of the Kadamaian River, alt. 2500 feet (Haviland, 1354). 
Distribution: Throughout the Tropics of both hemispheres, particularly in Asia and 
Africa, generally as a weed. 
TRIUMFETTA SUFFRUTICOSA, Blume, Bijdr. 113. 
On the Kadamaian River, alt. 2500 feet (Haviland, 1348). 
Distribution: Malay Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Louisiades (introduced ?). 
This plant was originally described from specimens collected in Java. Later on it 
was found by Riedel in Timor-laut and by R. B. Comins in the Solomon Islands, and 
there are also specimens from the Louisiade Archipelago (Voy. of ‘Rattlesnake,’ 467) in 
= the Kew Herbarium. It is very closely allied to T. pilosa, Roth, from which it differs in 
the very scanty tomentum of the leaves, which is limited to a few single hairs on the nerves 
_ beneath and to single or poorly fasciculated hairs above, and in the longer peduncles. 
. The bristles of the capsule are either glabrous or ciliate. 7. subhirtella, Miq., from 
Java, and T. graveolens, Blume, from Java, and according to Miquel from Timor, belong 
. evidently also to T. suffruticosa. The specimens from Timor, collected by Riedel, have 
