1X8 The Philippine Journal of Science wis 



Sarawak, Mount Poe, Foxworthy 369 (type), 290, June 3, 1908 in 

 forests on the upper slopes of the mountain, altitude 1,500 to 1,700 meters, 

 with the Dyak name harungian batu. 



The striking characters of this species are its small, coriaceous, very 

 obscurely nerved, non-reticulate leaves, and its unusually large panicles. 

 It does not seem to be closely allied to any other described Malayan species. 



LINOCIERA OLIGANTHA sp, nov. 



Arbor glabra, vel bracteolis calycibusque parcissime pubescent- 

 ibus, ramis ramulisque pallidis, teretibus ; f oliis oblongis, charta- 

 ceis ad subcoriaceis, usque ad 15 cm longis, in siccitate laevis, 

 pallidis, nitidis, apice acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque cir- 

 citer 8, tenuibus, supra saepe obsoletis vel subobsoletis, subtus 

 leviter prominulis, reticulis obsoletis vel subobsoletis; inflores- 

 centiis axillaribus, spicifoimibus, solitariis vel binis, usque ad 

 1.5 cm longis, paucifloris; floribus circiter 5.5 mm longis, 4-meris, 

 petalis involutis. 



A tree, glabrous throughout or the bracteoles and calyces 

 very obscurely pubescent. Branches and branchlets terete, 

 slender, smooth, pale. Leaves opposite, oblong, chaitaceous to 

 subcoriaceous, eglandular, smooth, pale, and shining when dry, 

 10 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the 

 acute base and to the prominently but blunt-acuminate apex, 

 the midrib impressed on the upper surface, somewhat prominent 

 on the lower surface; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of 

 the midrib, slender, not prominent, often obsolete or subobsolete 

 on the upper surface, slightly projecting on the lower surface, 

 obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations lax, indistinct, often 

 obsolete or nearly so; petioles pale, stout, 4 mm long or less. 

 Inflorescences spike-like, simple, axillary, solitary or in pairs, 

 few-flowered, 5 to 15 mm long, all parts except the pale bracteoles 

 dark-brown when dry, the bracteoles ovate, 1.2 mm long, usually 

 slightly pubescent. Flowers opposite, subsessile, 5 to 5.5 mm 

 long, 4-merous. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, rounded, 0.4 mm 

 long, often obscurely pubescent. Petals 4.5 mm long, slightly 

 united at the base, oblong, involute, obtuse, glabrous. Filaments 

 very short; anthers elliptic, about 1 mm long. Ovary glabrous. 



British North Borneo, Villamil 385 (type), June, 1917. I am also 

 disposed to refer to this species Hose 55U from Mount Trekan, Baram 

 District, Sarawak, July, 1895, which closely resembles the type, differing 

 in its even shorter inflorescences and more distinctly nerved leaves. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Linociera montana 

 (Blume) DC. of Java, from which it is distinguished, among other char- 

 acters, by its slender lateral nerves being distinctly raised on the lower 

 surface of the leaves. 



