162 DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU. 
vix minores, connectivo antice in processus binos breves obtusos producto, postice 
in calear breve conicum abeunte. Ovarium ad verticem subplanum calycis tubo 
adnatum. Bacca globosa, 1} lin. dimetiens, calyce persistente coronata, rubra. 
At 6000 feet (Haviland, 1170). 
Closely allied to Anplectrum myrtiforme, Naudin (= Medinilla myrtiformis, Triana), and 
distinguished only by the longer acumen of the rather tripli-nerved than quintupli-nerved 
leaves and by much shorter inflorescences. This species and likewise 4. myrtiforme are, 
in spite of their almost equal anthers, true Anplectrums. They have quite the habit of 
Anplectrum, and agree also in the structure of the leaves and of the bark. Whether the 
smaller set of the anthers is fertile or not, I am not able to make out from the material 
at my disposal. 
KIBESSIA TESSELLATA, Stapf, n. sp. Rami obtuse tetragoni, angulis anguste crispo-undu- 
latis, glabri. Folia sessilia vel subsessilia, ovata vel ovato-oblonga, 33-53 poll. longa, 
2-23 poll. lata, basi late rotundata, plerumque plus minusve cordata, apice sensim 
in acumen angustum obtusum producta, tenuiter coriacea, concoloria, glaberrima, 
5-nervia, nervis supra impressis, infra cum venis transversis prominulis. Cymulæ 
3-1-flore, axillares, singule vel paucæ fasciculate, 3-1 poll. longze, bracteatee, 
glabre. Bracteze ovatee, minute. Calycis tubus hemisphiericus, squamis rhomboideis, 
crassis, subplanis vel wnbonatis, vel summis ovatis acutis vestitus, sub anthesi 24-3 lin. 
longus; limbus late conicus, caudato-apiculatus, 3 lin. longus. Petala lilacino- 
cerulea, ovato-triangularia, acuta, 3 lin. longa. Anthere dolabriformes, utrinque 
inappendiculate, 1 lin. longze. Bacca depresso-globosa, 5 lin. dimetiens, squamis— 
marginalibus exceptis—applanatis, inconspicuis. 
At Koung, on the Tampassuk River, alt. 2000 feet (Haviland, 1303). 
Closely allied to K. simplex, Korth. (K. echinata, Cogn.), and to an undescribed species 
from Penang (C. Curtis, 953), but differing from both in the winged stem and the sessile 
leaves, and, besides, from the former in the glabrous and short scales on the calyx and 
from the latter in the gradually tapering apex of the leaves. 
MEMECYLON LAVIGATUM, Blume, Mus. Bot. i. 358. 
Low flooded land, near Tawaran (Haviland, 1384). 
Distribution : Malaya, on the mainland as far as Tavoy. 
The distribution of this species is in all probability much wider, as the characters 
supposed to distinguish it from several of the allied species are so trifling and so artificial 
that they ean hardly be considered sufficient to maintain it as a distinct species. It 
approaches so near to M. edule, Roxb., that either part of that species must be transferred 
to M. levigatum, or M. levigatum should be included in it as a variety. In any case, 
the species of Memecylon have been multiplied far too much ; a revision, however, of 
the genus, based on dried material only, would be very difficult. 
MEMECYLON LANCEOLATUM, Cogn. in DC. Monogr. vii. 1157. 
At 6000 feet (Haviland, 1168). 
I do not consider this determination as definitive. The species belongs to the doubtful 
