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on each side of the midrib, distinct or indistinct, sometimes 

 obscure, spreading, curved, anastomosing, the reticulations 

 usually very obscure; petioles about 1 cm long. Inflorescences 

 terminal, tripinnately paniculate, up to 12 cm in length, the 

 branches racemosely arranged, alternate, the lower ones sub- 

 tended by reduced leaves and up to 5 cm in length, the flowers 

 umbellately arranged at the tips of the ultimate branchlets, 

 crowded, 5 to 7 in an umbel, subsessile or pedicellate, the pedicels 

 stout, up to 4 mm in length, the subtending bracteoles lanceolate, 

 3 to 5 mm in length, the bracts similar but larger. Calyx-tube 

 obconic, 3 to 4 mm long, the lobes broadly ovate to suborbicular- 

 ovate, acute to somewhat acuminate, undulate, coriaceous, ob- 

 scurely punctate, the margins somewhat ciliate, about 6 mm long, 

 very prominently imbricate, the outer basal part often distinctly 

 rounded-auricled. Petals ovate, subcoriaceous, about 6 mm long, 

 somewhat acuminate, scarcely punctate. Anthers acuminate, 3 

 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 4 to 5 mm long, included 

 in bud. 



Sarawak, Siol, and other localities. Native collector 156, 372, 673 (type), 

 1631, 2350 Bur. Scl, the type collected June 1, 1911. 



The alliance of this species is apparently with Ardisia lanceolata Roxb. 

 and A. nitidula Mez. It is well characterized by its crowded, umbellately 

 arranged, subsessile to shortly pedicelled flowers; its distinctly elongated 

 calyx-tube ; and its prominently imbricate sepals. It is dedicated to Captain 

 J. C. Moulton, formerly director of the Sarawak Museum, under whose 

 supervision extensive botanical collections were made for the Bureau of 

 Science. 



ARDISIA SARAWAKENSIS sp. nov. § Tinopsis. 



Arbor 6 ad 7 m alta, glabra ; f oliis alternis, coriaceis, oblongis, 

 circiter 20 cm longis, in siccitate purpureo-brunneis, nitidis, 

 minute undulatis, apice obtusis, basi acutis, utrinque perspicue 

 punctatis, nervis primariis utrinque circiter 25, patulis, anasto- 

 mosantibus, subtus prominulis, reticulis laxis ; paniculis termina- 

 libus, pedunculatis, circiter 10 cm longis, pyramidatis, bipinna- 

 tim paniculatis, floribus in ramulis primariis subumbellatim 

 dispositis; sepalis elliptico-ovatis, acutis vel obtusis, perspicue 

 glandulosis, margine leviter ciliatis, circiter 3 mm longis, imbri- 

 catis; petalis ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 6 mm longis, supra 

 parce punctatis, infra densissime puncticulatis. 



A tree, 6 to 7 m high, entirely glabrous. Branches terete, 

 purplish-brown, rugose. Leaves alternate, oblong, coriaceous, 

 purplish-brown when dry, shining, about 20 cm- long, 4 to 5.5 

 cm wide, entire, subequally narrowed to the obtuse apex and 

 the acute base, both surfaces conspicuously punctate-glandular. 



