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tions ; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, distinct, 

 dark-brown in contrast to the paler surface; petioles 3 to 6 cm 

 long; stipules very broadly ovate, subpersistent, up to 1.8 cm 

 long and 1.4 cm wide, striate. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, 

 peduncled, subcapitate, in fruit up to 1.5 cm in diameter without 

 the bracts, the peduncles about 1.5 cm long; bracts subtending 

 the heads ovate, up to 15 mm long and 10 mm wide, somewhat 

 pubescent, the bracteoles in general elliptic, up to 5 mm long 

 and 2.5 mm wide. Fruits subglobose, about 3 mm in diameter, 

 somewhat ferruginous- or castaneous-hirsute, their pedicels up 

 to 3 mm in length. 



Sarawak, Sadong, Mount Merinjak, Native collector 2591 Bur. Sci., 

 February-June, 1914. 



This species, not radically different from Xanthophytum fruticulosum 

 Blume in vegetative characters, is well characterized by its large stipules 

 and its peduncled, solitary, subcapitate, involucrate inflorescences. 



