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up to 35 cm in length, the lower branches often subtended by 

 1-foliolate leaves, the branches up to 20 cm in length, more or 

 less ferruginous-puberulent, or in age nearly glabrous. Follicles, 

 including the stalk, 5 to 6 cm long, inequilaterally obovoid, 

 somewhat compressed, about 3 cm wide, the sutures rather 

 stoutly keeled, one side nearly straight or but slightly curved, 

 the other very prominently curved, the apex broadly rounded and 

 laterally subrostrate with a stout short beak, narrowed below 

 to the stout, 1 to 1.5 cm long pseudostalk, the pericarp brown, 

 shining, diagonally striate and glabrous externally, almost woody 

 in texture, inside very densely tomentose with somewhat fulvous, 

 simple, shining, short hairs. Aril 2-lobed, the lobes suborbi- 

 cular, about 8 mm long, the seed very immature. 



British North Borneo, Tawao, Agama 422, July 14, 1917, on ridges, 

 the fruit greenish-red. 



This species is strongly characterized by its 3-foliate leaves, many- 

 nerved, rather large leaflets, and its large, inequilaterally obovoid, laterally 

 beaked follicles, which are densely tomentose within with simple hairs, but 

 glabrous and shining outside. It is probably as closely allied to Connarus 

 grandis Jack as to other species. 



CONNARUS BORNEENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis amplis, minute ferrugineo- 

 pubescens; foliis 3- vel 5-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo-ovatis, utrin- 

 que glabris, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi obtusis ad subro- 

 tundatis, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 13 

 cm longis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, perspicuis, curvato-adscen- 

 dentibus; paniculis axillaribus terminalibusque, usque ad 25 cm 

 longis, multifloris; floribus circiter 5 mm longis, sepalis anguste 

 oblongis, obtusis, pubescentibus, petalis oblanceolatis, nigro- 

 punctatis, glabris, quam sepalis duplo longioribus; folliculis cir- 

 citer 3 cm longis, oblique obovoideis, leviter compressis, stipitatis, 

 in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, apice late rotundatis, lateraliter 

 breviter acuteque rostratis, basi cuneatis, junioribus extus par- 

 cissime pubescentibus glabrescentibus, intus pilis paucis simpli- 

 cibus adpressis instructis. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the minutely pubescent or 

 puberulent inflorescences, the indumentum ferruginous or sub- 

 ferruginous. Branches terete, brownish, sparingly lenticellate, 

 the young branchlets usually slightly pubescent. Leaves 3- or 

 5-foliolate, about 20 cm long, the rachis and petiole glabrous; 

 leaflets oblong-ovate, subcoriaceous, usually brown when dry, 

 shining, 8 to 13 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide, apex acute to slightly 

 acuminate, base obtuse to somewhat rounded; lateral nerves 4 

 or 5 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent, curved-ascend- 



