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villiformibus destitutis; lacemis axillaribus, solitariis vel binis, 

 usque ad 2.5 cm longis, paucifloris; floribus 5-meris, urceoiatis, 

 circiter 4 mm longis, calycis perspicue lineatis, lobis ovatis, 

 obtusis, glabris, integris ; petalis f connatis, lineatis, lobis circiter 

 1 mm longis, obtusis ad subacutis. 



A glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets elenticellate, 

 tereta, brownish. Leaves oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, mem- 

 branaceous, rather pale when dry, slightly shining, 15 to 20 cm 

 long, 6.5 to 9 cm wide, base acute to decurrent-acuminate, apex 

 slenderly subcaudate-acuminate, the acumen acute, about 1.5 

 cm long, the margins rather prominently subrepand-dentate, the 

 lower surface very minutely subrubiginous-puncticulate ; lateral 

 nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, prominent, somewhat 

 ascending, the reticulations inconspicuous; petioles about 1.5 

 cm long. Racemes axillary, simple, solitary or in pairs, up to 

 2.5 cm long, few-flowered. Flowers 5-merous, about 4 mm long, 

 the pedicels 3 mm long, the bracteoles 2, oblong, less than 1 mm 

 long. Calyx-tube and lobes prominently lineate, the lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, entire, 1.3 to 1.5 mm long. Corolla prominently lineate, 

 the tube about 2 mm long, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse to 

 subacute, about 1 mm long. Stamens attached at about the 

 middle of the tube, the filaments about as long as the anthers. 



British North Borneo, Villamil 23A, June, 1917. 



This species is strongly characterized by being entirely glabrous; by 

 its rather large, membranaceous, rather prominently subrepand-dentate, 

 subcaudate-acuminate, rather many-nerved leaves, vv^hich are minutely sub- 

 rubiginous-puncticulate; and its short, few-flowered, simple racemes, the 

 flowers being 5-merous and prominently lineate. It is perhaps as closely 

 allied to Maesa laevigata Scheff. as to any other known species. 



MAESA CLEMENTIS sp. nov. 



Frutex, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque parcissime puber- 

 ulis exceptis glaber, vamis ramulisque in siccitate brunneis, 

 teretibus, parce lenticellatis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad oblongis, 

 usque ad 11 cm longis, membranaceis ad chartaceis, pallide 

 olivaceis, basi rotundatis ad subacutis, apice distincte acuminatis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 8, perspicuis, subtus haud puncticulatis, 

 lineis nervilliformibus manifestis auctis, margine distanter sub- 

 rostrato- vel apiculato-dentatis ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, de- 

 pauperato-paniculatis, petiolo subaequantibus ; floribus 5-meris, 

 circiter 3 mm longis, calycis lobis lineatis, ovatis, acuminatis, 

 1 mm longis, margine minutissime ciliatis; petalis usque ad | 

 connatis, lobes lineatis, orbiculari-reniformibus, rotundatis; fila- 

 mentis quam antheris 3- vel 4-plo longioribus. 



A shrub, glabrous except the very slightly puberulent branch- 



