PiatTe 2290. 
MYRTUS FLAVIDA, Stap/. 
Myrraces. Tribe Myrren. 
ternisve brevissime pedicellatis, calycis tubo villosulo turbinato lobis 
ovato-deltoideis tubo subsquilongis, ovario biloculari, ovulis in 
utroque loculo 10-14. 
Has. Borneo, Kinabalu, 5,500-7,700 feet, Haviland. 
Folia 4-3 (-1) poll. lon a, basin versus 1} oll. lata; petiolus 
3-1 lin. Bt ms fm RA ‘tamina ee Stylus filiformis, 
stigmate punctiforme. Bacce calyce persistente coronate, globose, 
13-2 lin. diam. 
A remarkable species, and the first of the genus known to us from 
the Archipelago. Its habit is similar to that of M. myricoides, ELS... 
or M. microphylla, H.B., of South America, Our specimen from the 
loftier Station, with more coriaceous revolute-margined leaves, ap- 
proaches the New Caledonian M. rufopunctatus, Brongn.and Gris, and 
Perhaps M. Metrosideros, Baill., of the Bellenden-Ker Mountains, 
Queensland.—O. Srapr. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Same farther advanced. 3. Longitudinal section of same. 
4. Fruit, with persistent connivent calyx-lobes. 5. Seed, All enlarged. 
