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144. DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU, 
Climbing upon trees on the Tampassuk River near Koung (Burbidge). 
Distribution : Sarawak (Beccari, 633, 3016; Wallace); Labuan? (Low). 
Closely allied to B. Kockiana, Korth., but distinct by the very copious, almost villous 
indumentum, the short and stout petioles, and by the large flowers, the colour of 
which is much deeper, and perhaps also by the venation of the leaves. Wallace 
describes the colour as “ purple red,” Burbidge as “ scarlet,’ whilst Korthals designates 
the colour of the flowers of B. Kockiana as a bright yellow, turning ultimately into red. 
The typical forms of B. Kockiana, as represented by Korthals's specimen, and of 
B. Burbidgei as represented by the specimens quoted above, are certainly distinct 
enough to be considered as separate species. But there are two specimens here, also 
collected by Mr. Burbidge in North Borneo—the precise locality is not indicated —which 
have rather large flowers and exactly the venation of B. Burbidget, but their indumentum 
and their petioles are exactly like those of B. Kockiana. Mr. Burbidge describes the 
plant named after him in a MS. note thus: ** Climbing tree, attaining a beight of 50 to 
100 feet, twining around forest trees and falling from their branches in masses of 
green foliage and scarlet flowers.” 
PITHECOLOBIUM BIGEMINUM, Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras. 115; Benth. in. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 
575. 
In young jungle near the Ulu Tawaran, alt. 2000 feet (Haviland, 1369). 
Distribution : Ceylon and Western Peninsula; Malaya to the Philippines. 
ROSACE. 
PYGEUM OOCARPUM, Stapf, n. sp. Frutex. Rami novelli ferrugineo-tomentosi, mox 
glabrati, vetustiores fusci, lenticellis minutis conspersi. Folia petiolo 2-3 lin. 
longo, crassiusculo, breviter tomentello suffulta, ovata vel ovato-elliptica, 11-2 poll. 
longa, 1-1} poll. lata, basi subcordata, apice obtusa, margine breviter recurvo, 
coriacea, supra in costá nervisque minute tomentella, ceeterum glabra, impresso- 
punctata, sublucida, basi utrinque glandulá notata, subtus in cost& nervisque 
hirtella, czeterum glabra, nervis lateralibus utrinque 7-8 subpatulis, supra impressis, 
subtus prominulis, venis transversis, supra quidem cum reticulatione gracili distinctis. 
Racemi pauciflori, ad 5 lin. longi, stricti, ferrugineo-tomentosi; bractew ovatie, 
parvee ; pedicelli brevissimi, crassiusculi. Calyx patellaris, ferrugineo-tomentosus ; 
lobi 10 sublineares, remoti, 3 lin. longi. Petala nulla(?). Stamina 10; filamenta 
e basi triangulari subulatá cum antheris minutis $ lin. longa. Drupa ovoidea, 
- 4-45 lin. longa, 3-34 lin. lata, sparse fulvo-pilosa. | 
At 7800 feet (Haviland, 1118). 
The habit is more like that of P. Wightianum, Blume, than of any other species; but 
à ry and ovoid ovary is very different, and the true affinity lies rather with P. capitel- 
A datum, Hook. fil, and P. montanum, Hook. fil., from Tenasserim and Sikkim respectively. 
RUBUS GLOMERATOS, Blume, Bijdr. 111. 
«t 6000 feet (Haviland, 1194); at Koung and Kiau (Burbidge). 
ribution: All over A > from the Peninsula to the Philippines and to New Guinea. 
