DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU, 187 
Pakapaka, 10,500 feet (Haviland, 1073); “on the top of the mountain” (probably at 
13,000 feet) (Low). 
Miquel described a species from East Java (10,000-11,000 feet) under the name of 
Coprosma sundana, which may be very near to C. crassicaulis; however, I have not seen 
a specimen of it, and I find his description too incomplete to enable me to recognize 
the species from it. Besides, he says “ folia subtus venoso-retieulata," which certainly is 
not the case in the Kinabalu plant. This belongs to a group of species which is repre- 
sented in New Zealand by C. fetidissima, Forst., and C cuneata, Hook. fil., and in South- 
east Australia by C. nitida, Hook. fil, but without approaching to them so closely as 
the following species. 
Corrosma HookEmr, Stapf, n. sp. Frutex humilis prostratus, ramosissimus, glaberrimus. 
Rami tetragoni; internodia brevia, in veterioribus circiter 4-2 lin. longa, in ramulis 
brevissima, 1 lin. longa, pro maximá parte stipulis plus minusve persistentibus obtecta. 
Folia subsessilia vel petiolo ad 1 lin. longo tenui suffulta, oblonga vel lanceolato- 
oblonga, 4-6 lin. longa, 13-2 lin. lata, acuta, coriacea, nigricantia, subnitida, nervis 
venisque inconspicuis. Stipule firma, albidee, breviter triangulari-ovate, 1-14 lin. 
longse, crasse breviterque fimbriatee. Flores solitarii vel masculi bini ad apices 
ramulorum. Flos masculus : Calyx tetragono-turbinatus, breviter 4-dentatus, 1 lin. 
longus, dentibus minute ciliatis. Corolle tubus breviter infundibuliformis, 1-13 lin. 
longus; lobi ovati, sequilongi, recurvi. Stamina 4, exserta, libera; filamenta 21 lin. 
longa; anther oblonge, 23-22 lin. longe, basi bilobæ, apice apiculate. Styli 
rudimentarii minimi 2. Flos femineus : Calycis tubus ovoideus, 1 lin. longus ; limbus 
4—5-dentatus, dentibus triangularibus, sub:equilongis. Corolla infundibuliformi- 
campanulata, 21 lin. longa, ad medium 4—5-loba. Stamina 4-5; filamenta brevia ; 
antherze effetee, lineares, 14 lin. longee, basi bifidee, apiculatze. Styli 2, a basi liberi, 
lanceolato-acuminati, 4 lin. longi, minute papillosi. Bacca ellipsoidea, 2-21 lin. 
longa, calyce persistente coronata. 
In crevices near the top of Mt. Kinabalu, alt. 13,000 feet (Haviland, 1072). 
Nearly allied to C. nitida, Hook. fil., from Victoria and Tasmania, and to C. cuneata, 
Hook. fil., from New Zealand, the Auckland Group, and Campbell Island, and of a very 
similar habit. But in C. nitida the branches are constantly covered with a very fine, 
almost velvety tomentum (the plant is not glabrous as stated in Benth. Fl. Austral. 
iii. 430), the internodes are longer and are soon deprived of their deciduous and very 
short stipules, and the flowers are of a somewhat different shape. C. cuneata, on the other 
hand, differs chiefly in the terete branches, very short and truncate stipules, smaller 
obovate or obversely lanceolate leaves, and very slender tube of the female corolla. 
COMPOSIT Æ. 
GNAPHALIUM LUTEO-ALBUM, Linné, Spec. Plant. 851; var. MULTICEPS, Hook. fil, PL 
Br. Ind. iii. 288. 
In rice-fields at Kiau, alt. 2500 feet (Burbidge). 
