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nal, 2 to 4 cm long, bipinnately paniculate, few-flowered, densely 

 cupreous-lepidote, the primary branches few, 1 cm long or less, 

 the flowers umbellately arranged on the ultimate branchlets, their 

 pedicels 3 mm long or less. Sepals oblong, obtuse, about 1 mm 

 long, not at all imbricate, margins minutely ciliate, glandular- 

 punctate. Petals glabrous, oblong-ovate, subacute, sparingly 

 glandular, about 3 mm long. Styles not at all exserted. 



Sarawak, Mount Poe, Foxworthy 375, 386 (type), June 3, 1908, near 

 the summit, altitude about 1,700 meters; Mount Santubong, Native collector 

 2227 Bur. Sci. 



In the group of comparatively few species to which this form pertains, 

 it is well characterized by its small inflorescences but more especially by its 

 ferruginous to cupreous lepidote indumentum. 



ARDISIA HOSEI sp. nov. § Acrardisia. 



Arbor glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis oblongis ad 

 oblongo-lanceolatis, chartaceis, olivaceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, 

 acuminatis, basi acutis, utrinque perspicue glandulosis, nervis 

 primariis utrinque 15 ad 18, tenuibus; inflorescentiis tei^mina- 

 libus, pedunculatis, 10 ad 12 cm longis, bipinnatim paniculatis, 

 paucifloris; floribus magnis, apertis circiter 2.5 cm diametro, 

 racemose dispositis, pedicellis 1 ad 1.3 cm longis; sepalis sub 

 anthesin apertis, haud imbricatis, oblongo-obovatis ad obovato- 

 ellipticis, obtusis, glabris, perspicue nigro-punctatis, in alabastro 

 valde imbricato; petalis circiter 1.2 mm longis, obtusis, glan- 

 duloso-punctatis, oblongo-ellipticis. 



A glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets terete, reddish- 

 brown, sparingly glandular-punctate. Leaves alternate, charta- 

 ceous, olivaceous, slightly shining, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 

 13 to 20 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide, base acute, apex somewhat 

 acuminate, the acumen blunt, both surfaces conspicuously and 

 rather densely glandular-punctate, the glands all alike in size, 

 margins entire; primary lateral nerves 15 to 18 on each side 

 of the midrib, slender, sometimes scarcely more prominent than 

 are the secondary nerves; petioles 1 to 1.8 cm long. Panicles 

 terminal, bipinnate, few-flowered, peduncled, 10 to 12 cm long, 

 the flowers racemosely arranged on the ultimate branches, the 

 pedicels 1 to 1.3 cm long. Flowers unusually large for the genus, 

 when spread about 2.5 cm in diameter. Sepals in bud strongly 

 imbricate, in anthesis spreading, not at all imbricate, oblong- 

 obovate to elliptic-obovate, entirely glabrous, conspicuously black- 

 glandular, rounded or obtuse. Corolla-lobes nearly free, about 

 12 mm long, 5 mm wide, obtuse, glandular, oblong-elliptic. Fila- 



