o'2-2 PLANTS 



POLYGONACEAE. 



Polygonum Tournefort . 



Polygonum pedunculare Wall., Merr. Ennm Born. PI. (1921) 

 245. 



Mount Miirud, No. 130, altitude about 900 ni. Tropical 

 Asia to Africa. 



MAGNOLIACEAE. 

 Illicium Linnaeus. 



Illicium cauliflorum sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, glabra ; foliis subcoriaceis, in siccitate olivaceis, 

 utrinque concoloribus, verruculosis, oblong-lanceolatis, subfal- 

 catis, acuminatis, basi cuneatis, 8 ad 10 cm longis, costa supra 

 impressa, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 8, supra obscuris, 

 subtus obsoletis ; petiolo 1 ad 1.5 cm longo ; floribus solitariis, 

 lateralis, e ramis vetustioribus, circiter 1.5 cm diametro bibrac- 

 teolatis, bracteolis ovatis, acutis, 2.5 ad mm longis, margine 

 ciliatis, pedicellis 1 ad 2 cm longis ; perianthi segmentis circiter 

 11, exterioribus (2 vel 3) late ovatis, acutis vel leviter 

 acuminatis, circiter 3 mm longis, plus minusve ciliatis, 

 interioribus majoribus, elliptico-ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, circiter 

 8 mm longis, 5 ad 6.5 mm latis, rotundatis ; staminibus 20, 

 1-seriatis, 2.2 mm longis, filamentis brevibus, antheris crassis, 

 obtusis, filamentis subaequantibus ; carpellis 11, glabris, cir- 

 citer 4 mm longis. 



Mount Murud. No. 114, E. Mjoberg, from between tlie 

 altitudes of 1900 and 2400 m. 



A very strongly marked species characterized by its obscurely 

 nerved leaves and its solitar}', pedicelled flowers which are 

 borne on the branches below the leaves, as well as by its broad 

 perianth-segments and its short, stout, 1 -seriate anthers. 



Drimys Forster. 



Drimys piperita Hook, f., Merr. Enum. Born. PI. (1921) 

 252. 



Mounts Murud and Poi, Nos. 101, 102, 193. Hmh 

 mountains of Borneo, the Philippines, and New Guinea. 



