218 DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU. 
auctum, globosum, a fauce rumpens. Carpella stipitata, cylindrica, leviter curvata, 
erecta, sicca; pericarpium chartaceum. Semen erectum, testá tenuissimá, 
albumine carnoso; embryo axilis medio semine longior, cotyledonibus obovato- 
oblongis, radicule inferz «equilongis. ^ Frutex scandens. Folia alternantia, 
chartaceo-membranacea, crenulata. Flores bracteati, in racemis longis, laxis 
dispositi; racemi inferne compositi, ramis flores 2 valde approximatos gerentibus, 
- quorum alter plerumque abortivus ; bracteze infundibuliformes, truncate. 
SCYPHOSTEGIA BORNEENSIS, n. Sp. (Pl XVII. 1-14). Frutex glaberrimus. Ramuli 
graciles, obscure angulosi. Folia oblonga, ad 5 poll. longa, ad 1? poll. lata, sub- 
abrupte breviterque acuminata, basi rotundata, crenulata, exsiccando fuscescentia, 
lucida, nervis lateralibus utrinque 6-9, subtus prominulis, venis transversalibus 
crebris, tenuibus. Racemi ad 1 ped. longi, subflexuosi, ad ramorum basin decidue 
minuteque bracteati; rhachis angulosa; rami graciles, 1-13 poll. longi. Bracteze 
flores subtendentes infundibuliformes, 2 lin. longs, truncatz. Pedicelli breviter 
vel vix e bracteis exserti. Perianthium in alabastro ovatum apiculatum, sub anthesi 
patens, segmentis exterioribus quam interiores subduplo majoribus, obovato-oblongis, 
2-3 lin. longis. Receptaculum globosum, sub anthesi 2 lin. altum, margine recurvo, 
incrassato, lobulato coronatum ; fructiferum 9 lin. dimetiens. Carpella pilosa, ad 
4 lin. longa. 
Near Koung, alt. 2000 feet (Haviland, 1377). 
The floral structure of this plant is in many ways so remarkable that I feel justified 
in founding upon it a new genus, though the male flowers are unknown. There is no 
genus in Monimiaceze to which it might be said to be manifestly allied. Yet the 
analogies with genera of this order are so obvious that I consider it will most appropri- 
ately find its place amongst them. There is very little in the vegetative parts and in 
the inflorescence to guide us as to the systematic position, though the leaves are not un- 
like those of Daphnandra repandula, F. v. M., in texture, venation, and general appearance. 
The flowers on the lower branches of the inflorescence stand usually in pairs, very close 
to each other, and supported by a pair of obconical truncate bracts which fit exactly 
into each other, and more or less enclose the pedicels. It seems that only one of these 
flowers develops normally, whilst the other remains in the state of a bud. In the upper 
part of the inflorescence no second flower is formed ; yet we may assume per analogiam 
that these solitary flowers are in fact reduced inflorescences. These two-flowered and 
one-flowered partial inflorescences are then collected into a long and very loose raceme. 
There is nothing very peculiar in the perianth; the “disc,” however, deserves full 
attention. It is a fleshy, urn-shaped receptacle, the margin of which is very much 
thickened and recurved, leaving open only a narrow passage. From the bottom of this 
receptacle the carpels rise, filling scarcely more than one half of the cavity. They seem 
to be enveloped in a young state by a delicate membrane, which later splits more or less 
irregularly into 2-3 lobes, reminding one of the perianth of a fig-flower. The lower 
part and even the lobes themselves are more or less connate, and it is difficult, if not 
impossible, to separate them without tearing them. The carpels are distinctly stalked. 
