DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU. 199 
The leaves vary from linear oblong (3-43 by 14 lin.) to linear (5 by 1 lin.) ; but the 
venation is always the same. 
MYRSINEZ. 
Masa INDICA, Wallich, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey € Wall. ii. 230 in notá. 
From 4000 to 5000 feet (Haviland, 1191, 1192, 1304). 
Distribution : Tropical Asia. 
MYRSINE CAPITELLATA, Wall. in Roxb, Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 295. 
, Var. AVENIS, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. iii. 512. 
From 8000 to 11,500 feet (Haviland, 1090, 1151). 
Distribution (of species): Himalaya, from Nepal to Bhotan, Khasia Hills, Silhet, 
Assam, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, Hainan, Ceylon, and Western Peninsula to 
the Anamally Hills. 
The Himalayan form, on which the species was founded, is very uniform in every 
respect, and some of the Khasia specimens approach it very closely, whilst others pass 
more or less into the common Malayan form, which was named M. avenis by De Candolle. 
Exactly the same veinless form occurs in Ceylon and in the Western Peninsula, where the 
more luxuriant specimens or low-region forms, however, are not inclined to develop leaves 
of quite the same shape as they do in the Khasia Hills, but a form which is more 
oblanceolate or obovate and which occurs in stunted specimens of the higher regions 
of the Khasia Hills. Quite similar forms occur in Borneo and the Philippines and 
in Hainan, but wherever the leaves are enlarged they maintain their very coriaceous 
consistency, the nerves never become so prominent as in the Himalayan or the 
common Khasia form, and the leaves are always widest in the upper third or fourth. The 
shape of the calyx-lobes and the length of the pedicels vary too much to afford a 
fixed character for specific distinction. The same seems to be the case with regard to 
the tetramery or pentamery of the flowers, as in the specimens from Kinabaiu the 
flowers are 4- or 5-merous. Therefore, I think, M. affinis, DC., M. Hasseltii, Blume, and 
AM. borneensis, Scheff., must be merged into M. capitellata v. ávenis, and I doubt very much 
whether M. densiflora, Scheff., of which I have seen only a barren branch, can be kept up. 
The Kinabalu specimens have exceptionally large fruits (3 by 23 lin.) and very 
obtuse calyx-lobes. The flowers are always pedicelled and less numerous than they 
usually are in the variety avenis. 
MYRSINE DASYPHYLLA, Stapf, n. sp. Frutex glaberrimus. Rami crassiusculi, cicatri- 
cibus foliorum et ramulorum floriferorum residuis obtecti, cortice nigricante, plus 
minusve late suleati, superne, ut ramuli, densissime foliati. Folia subsessilia, 
spathulato-cuneata, 3 5 poll. longa, 4-5 lin. lata, obtusa, haud emarginata, crasse 
coriacea, supra glauco-viridia, lucida, subtus opaca, elandulose punctata, uninervia, 
avenia. Flores pauci vel solitarii, sessiles, in ramulis axillaribus brevissimis, gemmis 
perulatis.  Perulz bracteseeque minute glandulose ciliatze. Calyx % lin. longus, 
ad $ 4-5-lobatus; lobi obtusi, late ovati, minute papilloso-ciliati vel subglabri. 
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