XIII. c, 2 Merrill: New Species of Bornean Plants HI 



to 2.5 mm in length. Calyx about 5 mm in diameter, the lobes 

 ovate, acuminate, about 1.5 mm long^, prominently glandular, 

 margins ciliate. Fruits globose, glabrous, about 6 mm in dia- 

 meter, the styles slender, 3 to 4 mm long. 



Sarawak, Native collector 672, U2J!f, 1H8, 1178 (type) Bur. ScL, one of 

 the specimens from Matang Road, July 25, 1911, the others not localized. 



This very characteristic species is somewhat anomalous in the section 

 Bladhia in its racemose inflorescences, entire leaves, and in being glabrous 

 throughout. It does not appear to be closely allied to any previously de- 

 scribed species of the genus. 



ARDISIA LUCIDA sp. nov. § Pimelandra. 



Arbor circiter 8 m alta, novellis minutissime ferrugineo-tomen- 

 tosis exceptis glabra; foliis oblongis, chartaceis, nitidis, usque 

 ad 13 cm longis, alternis, supra subolivaceis, subtus pallide 

 brunneis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acuminatis, integris, 

 epunctatis, nervis utrinque circiter 14, curvatis, anastomosanti- 

 bus, supra plerumque impressis, subtus prominulis ; inflorescentiis 

 axillaribus, circiter 2 cm longis, bipinnatim paniculatis, e basi 

 ramosis, floribus umbellatim dispositis; calycis lobis oblongis, 

 acutis, 1.2 mm longis, leviter furfuraceis, margine minute ciliatis, 

 eglandulosis. 



A tree about 8 m high, glabrous except the minutely ferrugin- 

 ous-tomentose growing tips of the branchlets. Branches terete, 

 brownish, smooth. Leaves alternate, chartaceous, shining on 

 both surfaces, the upper surface subolivaceous, the lower pale- 

 brownish, epunctate, oblong, 9 to 13 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, 

 subequally narrowed to the acute or somewhat acuminate base 

 and the distinctly acuminate apex ; primary lateral nerves about 

 14 on each side of the midrib, usually impressed on the upper 

 surface, prominent on the lower surface, curved, anastomosing, 

 the reticulations close, not prominent ; petioles 9 to 13 mm long- 

 Panicles bipinnate, branched from the base, axillary, about 2 

 cm long, solitary, lax, few-flowered, the flowers umbellately dis- 

 posed, the pedicels, in fruit, about 5 mm long. Calyx slightly 

 furfuraceous, about 4 mm in diameter, the lobes oblong, acute, 

 about 1.2 mm long, eglandular, margins slightly ciliate. Fruits 

 globose, glabrous, about 5 mm in diameter. 



British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Lobang and Minitindok Gorges, 

 Mrs. Clemens lOiSS (type), 10331, November 15 and 19, 1915. 



This species, a characteristic one of the section Pimelandra, falls in the 

 group with, and is most closely allied to, Ardisia brachybotrys Lauterb. & 

 K. Schum. of New Guinea, from which it may be distinguished by its 

 differently shaped, smaller leaves, its eglandular sepals, and its smooth, 

 not tuberculate fruits. 



