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siccitate valde longitudinaliter revolutis, obtusis, costa supra 

 impressa, nervis obsoletis ; racemis paucis, in axillis superiori- 

 bus, 4 ad 6-floris, baud 8 mm longis, rhachi crassa, glabra ; 

 pedicellis circiter 2 mm longis ; calyis circiter 2.5 mm diametro, 

 lobis late ovatis, parce ciliatis ; corolla geabra, circiter 2 mm 

 longa, lobis 4 vel 5, oblongo- ovatis, obtusis, 1.4 mm longis; 

 ovario 4 vel 5-loculari. 



Mount Murud (No. 93, E. Mjoberg, October, 1922, near the 

 summit of the mountain, apparently in exposed places, altitude 

 about 2400 m. 



A species allied to Ilex liavilandii Stapf of mount Kinabalu 

 but with smaller, differently shaped, nerveless leaves, shorter 

 and fewer flowered racemes, shorter pedicels, and slightly 

 ciliate calyces. 



ELAEOCARPACEAE . 



Elaeocarpus Linnaeus. 



Elaeocarpus murudensis sp. nov. § Dicera. 



Arbor, partibus junioribus dense pubescentibus, ramis 

 glabris, ramulis subferrugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis numerosis, 

 oblongo-ellipticis, olivaceis, opacis, 6 ad 10 cm longis, 2 ad 4.5 

 cm latis, obtusis, basi acutis ad obtusis, margine levitei- 

 crenatis, crenulis saepe apiculatis, utrinque in sicco perspicue 

 pistulatis, supra (junioribus exceptis) glaberrimus, subtus ad 

 costa nervisque pilosis; nervis lateralibus utrinque 6 vel 7, 

 perspicuis, arcuato-anastomosantibus, laxe reticulatis ; petiolo 

 8 ad 15 mm longo ; racemis axillaribus vel e axillis defoliatis, 

 solitariis, paucis, circiter 10 m longis, pilosis; floribus 5-meris, 

 circiter 9 mm longis, pedicellis pilosis, sursum incrassatis, 

 floribus subaequantibus, sepahs oblongis, intus glabris vel 

 subglabris ; petalis circiter 8 mm longis, sursum leviter 

 ampliatis, oblongis, in partibus superioribus (ca. 3 vel 4 mm) 

 laciniatis, laciniis circiter 15, tenuibus, 2 ad 2.5 mm longis, 

 in partibus inferioribus (ca. 3 mm) ad margine et intus pilosis, 

 extus glabris; staminibus circiter 15, filamentis 1.5 ad 2 mm 

 longis, antheris scaberulis, anguste oblongis, 2.5 ad 3 mm 

 longis, obtusis; ovario triloculari, dense piloso, styhs 3.5 mm 

 lengis, deorsum pilosis; disco circiter 3 mm diametro, dense 

 piloso. 



