232 DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU. 
excepto, pubescentes. Cupule per paria a dorso connate (vix mature), 6 lin. dime- 
tientes et 2 lin. alte, fulvo-tomentosz, ob apices squamarum liberos nigro-tuberculatee ; 
glans depresso-hemispheerica, apice excepto glabra, lucida, apiculata, 3-4 lin. alta. 
From 9,000 to 10,500 feet (Haviland, 1069). 
Closely allied to Quercus pruinosa, Blame. Ishould have considered this oak asa form 
of Q. pruinosa, but for the very minute bracts, the solitary male flowers, and the small 
leaves and fruits, and 1 am still very doubtful whether all these characters may prove to 
be the result of the physical conditions of a much elevated and exposed locality. 
A specimen from Lepanto, N. Luzon (Vidal, 1814), belongs evidently to the same species, 
but the leaves are less rounded at the base. There are no flowers or fruits with it. 
CASTANOPSIS sp. aff. C. argentee, A.DC. 
** Small tree, fruit prickly like an opened chestnut,” at 8000 feet (Haviland, 1115). 
I have seen only a barren branch. The nerves are rather faint and more curved than 
in C. argentea. It is very probably a new species. 
CASTANOPSIS TURBINATA, Stapf, n. sp. Arbor humilis. Ramuli robusti, minute denseque 
tomentelli. Folia petiolo crasso 3 lin. longo suffulta, ovata vel ovato-oblonga, 3-4 
poll. longa, 13-13 poll. lata, basi rotundata vel breviter acuta, apice sensim tenuiter- 
que acuminata, valde coriacea, supra exsiccando fusca vel obscure olivacea, subnitida, 
sub lente valido pilis stellatis minutissimis albis parce conspersa, subtus viridi-cinerea, 
pube stellata laxá minutissimá vestita, nervis lateralibus utrinque 9-10 sub margine 
insigniter arcuatim anastomosantibus, supra graciliter impressis, subtus prominenti- 
bus, venis transversis subtus tenuibus distinctis. Flores feminei in apice ramulorum, 
.in spicis valde abbreviatis, minute cinereo-tomentellis, subglomerati. Cupula 
turbinata, bracteis squamiformibus, ovatis, superioribus plerumque breviter et abrupte 
vel sensim acuminatis, eximie in spirocyclis primo arcte congestis, demum plus 
minusve solutis dispositis ornata, minutissime tomentella, et insuper glandulis minimis 
aspersa. Perianthium 6-lobum, ad loborum apices in cupulá inclusum. Styli basi 
pubescentes. 
At 8500 feet (Haviland, 1102). 
Allied to C. sumatrana, A.DC., but distinct by the minute stellate tomentum, the 
very coriaceous leaves and the turbinate cupula, which bears a spiral of bracts of 5-7 
whorls, The largest cupula is about 7 lin. long and 4 lin. broad in the upper part; 
when young the cupula is more cylindric, measuring 21 by 2 lin. 
BURMANNIACE X. 
BURMANNIA PAPILLOSA, Stapf, n. sp. Herba annua, chlorophyllo destituta, aphylla. 
Caulis circa 3-pollicaris, simplex vel furcatus, basin versus squamis paucis 
minutis obsitus, uniflorus, sub flore bibracteatus vel nudus ; bracteze lanceolate, 
13 lin. longe, hyaline. Perigonii tubus 2 lin. longus, ovarium fere duplo superans, 
trialatus, elis apice abrupte basin versus longe attenuatis, ad 2 lin. latis ; lobi exteriores 
rotundati, obtusi, in margine et in dorso superne minutissime papillosi, 3 lin. longi 
latique, inferiores 6-plo breviores, late rotundati, minutissime papillosi. Anthere 
sessiles, transverse latiores ; connectivum apice in cristulas 2 ovatas vel rotundas 
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