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of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, spreading, curved, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations distinct; petioles up to 8 cm 

 in length. Flowers axillary, fascicled, their pedicels slender, 8 

 to 14 mm long, sparingly furfuraceous, each usually with a single, 

 linear-lanceolate, 1 to 2 mm long bracteole. Sepals 5, elliptic, 

 obtuse to subacute, 4 to 4.5 mm long, smooth, sparingly pubes- 

 cent. Fruit ovoid-globose, about 4 mm long, somewhat pubes- 

 cent; styles 3, free to the base, 4 mm long; seeds numerous, 

 about 1 mm long, brown, closely reticulate. 



British North Borneo, Minitindok Gorge, Mount Kinabalu, Mrs. Cle- 

 mens 10A96, November 19, 1915, the fruit dull-white. 



This species is readily distinguished among its congeners by its long- 

 petioled, glabrous, cordate leaves, its fascicled flowers, three free styles, 

 and somewhat pubescent ovaries and fruits. 



SAURAUIA MATTHEWSII sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor, ramulis plus minusve adpresse squamoso- 

 setosis, squamae lanceolatae; foliis chartaceis, oblongo-lanceo- 

 latis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, tenuiter acuminatis, margine 

 curvato-setosis, deorsum angustatis, basi cuneatis, usque ad 

 28 cm longis, supra glabris, laevis, nitidis, vel costa parcis- 

 sime adpresse lanceolato-squamosis, subtus ad costa nervisque 

 leviter hirsutis atque cum reticulis setis subpatulis leviter ciliatis 

 instructis; nervis utrinque 11 ad 13, perspicuis; floribus axillari- 

 bus, solitariis vel binis, pedicellatis ; sepalis inaequalibus, circiter 

 7 mm longis, exterioribus extus densissime pallide setosis, setis 

 tenuibus, leviter ciliatis ; ovario glabro ; stylis 3, alte connatis. 



A shrub or small tree, the branchlets more or less appressed- 

 scaly with lanceolate, pale, acuminate, sparingly ciliate, rather 

 stout scales up to 4 mm in length, and also somewhat pubescent. 

 Leaves chartaceous, grayish or somewhat brownish when dry, 

 oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 23 to 28 cm long, 6 to 8 

 cm wide, the upper surface smooth, glabrous, or the midrib with 

 few, closely appressed, lanceolate, stiff scales, the lower surface 

 somewhat hirsute on the midrib and lateral nerves, and with 

 numerous, spreading, somewhat curved, 1 to 3 mm long setae 

 on the midrib, nerves, and reticulations, the setae sparingly 

 ciliate, the apex slenderly and sharply caudate-acuminate, below 

 gradually narrowed to the cuneate base, margins ciliate-setose 

 with curved-spreading setae; lateral nerves 11 to 13 on each 

 side of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, curved- 

 ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, subparallel; 

 petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long, appressed setose-scaly and pubescent. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs, their pedicels 10 to 12 mm 



