54 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VI, 



Nepenthaceae. 

 109. Nepenthes Macfarlanei, Hemsl. 5 — 6,000 feet. 



Balanophoraceae. 

 no. B alatiphor a gigantea, Wall. At 4,000 feet. 



Piperaceae. 



111. Piper magnibaccum , DC. At 4,000 feet. 



Loranthaceae. 



112. Loranthtis pnlcher, DC. At 4,500 feet. 



Laurineae. 

 113. cinnamomum parvifolium, sp. uov. 



Tree or shrub with dense branches, bark dark, blackish 

 brown. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, ovate, acuminate, base 

 rounded, subopposite or alternate, three nerves conspicuous, 

 transverse, nervules fine, hardly visible, above glabrous, 

 shining, 5 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, petiole 5 mm. long, Cymes 

 1.5 long, axillary, peduncle slender, i cm. long, pedicels 3 

 subumbellate, 5 mm. long. 



Flowers 2 mm. long. Sepals 3 elliptic, obtuse. Petals, 

 ovate, obtuse, all pubescent, silky within. Stamens 4-celled, 

 outer row 6, filaments linear, glabrous, anther oblong, inner 3, 

 with 2 large glands on the hairy filaments. 



Staminodes 3 conic on short filaments. Ovary flask- 

 shaped, style short. 



At 4,200 feet. Remarkable for its little, stiff, ovate leaves. 



T14. Alseodaphne oleifolia, Gamble. 

 Urticaceae. 



115. PsEUDOSTREBLUS CAUDATUS sp. 710V. 



Glabrous, unarmed, probably a shrub, branches slender, 

 bark black. Leaves alternate, elliptic, caudate, tip with a long, 

 blunt point, base shortly cuneate, thinly coriaceous, nerve, 

 horizontal, primaries about 11 pairs inarching within the 

 margin, secondaries nearly as prominent, reticulations conspsi 

 cuous beneath. Male flowers on short pedicels 2 mm. long- 

 axillary bracts ovate, very small. Pedicels 5-6 mm. long, 

 slender flowers crowded at the tip, 4 or 5 to each spike, 

 sessile. Sepals 4 or 5 ovate, acute. Stamens 4-5 inflexed 

 in bud, filaments twice as long as the sepals, flat, 2 mm. 

 long. Anthers elliptic, rounded, Pistillode oblong, truncate. 

 At 4,500 feet. 



