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acutis, margine incurvato-spinuloso-serratis ; nervis utrinque 

 circiter 12, distinctis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, cymosis, tenui- 

 ter pedunculatis, paucifloris, partibus junioribus leviter pubes- 

 centibus; bracteis folliaceis, lanceolatis, acuminatis, ad 12 mm 

 longis; sepalis inaequalibus, extus leviter pubescentibus, rotun- 

 datis, exterioribus ellipticis, circiter 5 mm longis, interioribus 

 late ovatis, circiter 5.5 mm longis et 5 mm latis; ovario pubes- 

 cente; stylis 3, liberis. 



A shrub or small tree, nearly glabrous, or the younger parts 

 of the inflorescences sparingly brown-pubescent. Branches and 

 branchlets castaneous when dry, smooth, terete, the latter with 

 few, widely scattered, closely appressed, lanceolate scales. 

 Leaves 6 to 14 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, membranaceous to 

 chartaceous, in general oblong, subequally narrowed to the acute 

 base and to the slenderly and sharply subcaudate-acuminate apex, 

 entirely glabrous except for the very few, widely scattered, 

 appressed, lanceolate scales on the midrib on both surfaces, the 

 upper surface castaneous when dry, the lower cinereous, the 

 margins spinulose-serrate, the tips of the small teeth incurved; 

 lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, distinct, 

 brown in contrast to the pale lower surface, anastomosing, the 

 reticulations not prominent; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long. Inflores- 

 cences axillary, solitary, long-peduncled, cymose, few-flowered, 

 the peduncles slender, up to 6 cm in length, glabrous, the young 

 pedicels sparingly pubescent ; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, f olia- 

 ceous, sparingly toothed, equally narrowed at both ends, up to 

 12 mm long and 3 mm wide ; pedicels 10 to 12 mm long. Sepals 

 unequal, externally sparingly pubescent, all rounded, the outer 

 two elliptic, 5 mm long and 3 mm wide, the inner three broadly 

 ovate, 5 to 6 mm long, 5 mm wide. Corolla-tube about 2 mm 

 long, the lobes 6 mm long, retuse. Stamens 20. Ovary ovoid, 

 pubescent ; styles 3, free, 4 mm long. 



South-east Borneo, Hayoep, Winkler 2U51, June 14, 1908. 



This species is apparently allied to Saurauia nigrescens Korth., but it 

 has smaller leaves, which are slenderly and sharply subcaudate-acuminate; 

 and lanceolate, acuminate, entirely glabrous bracts; while the ovary is dis- 

 tinctly pubescent. 



PASSIFLORACEAE 



ADEN I A Forskal 



ADENIA QUADRIFIDA sp. nov. § Microblepharis. 



Species A. cordifoliae (Blume) Engl, similis, difl'ert floribus 

 omnibus 4-meris, foliis chartaceus, utrinque concoloribus, laevis, 

 haud rugosis. 



