82 ON THE FLORA OF BORNEO. 



British North Borneo, Sandakan, Villamil 20 J+, January 

 8, 1916, along roadsides, altitude about 100 m. 



Perak, Malacca, Penang, Singapore, Sumatra, and Java. 

 Parinarium glaberrimum, Hassk. in Flora, 27 (1844) 583. 



British North Borneo, Silimpopon, Villamil 196, 

 September 15, 1916, on forested slopes, altitude 500 meters. 



I am unable to distinguish this form specifically from 

 HasskarFs species, which extends from Perak, through . the 

 Malay Archipelago and the Philippines to Polynesia, and 

 which has numerous synonyms, including Parinarium scabrum. 

 Hassk., P. laurvnum, A. Gray, P. warburgii, Perk., and P. 

 curranii, Merr. It was first described by Eumphius as atunus. 



Pygeutn, Gaertner. 



Pygeum pachyphyllum, sp. nov. § Sericospermum. 



Frutex vel arbor parva perspicue f errugineo-pubescens ; 

 foliis coriaceis, ellipticis, integris, usque ad 16 cm. longis, 

 breviter acuminatis, basi truncato-rotundatis vel leviter cor- 

 datis, nervis utriuque 10 ad 12, prominentibus, in pagina 

 superiore cum reticulis laxis impressis; racemis axillari- 

 bas, fasciculatis, dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus, circiter 1 

 cm. longis ; sepalis 6, anguste oblongis ; ovario dense ferrugineo- 

 hirsuto; fructibus parce ferrugineo-villosis, seminibus parcis- 

 sime ciliatis. 



A shrub or a small tree, the branches, branchlets, inflores- 

 cences, and the leaves on the lower surface prominently and 

 in part densely ferruginous-pubescent with short, spreading 

 hairs, the branches and branchlets terete. Leaves coriaceous, 

 elliptic, entire, 12 to 16 cm. long. 7.5 to 10 cm. wide, the upper 

 surface dull-olivaceous, glabrous, or when young more or less 

 ferruginous-pubescent especially along the midrib and lateral 

 nerves, the loAver surface very densely ferruginous-pubescent 

 on the midrib and lateral nerves, with scattered hairs on the 

 reticulations and surface generally, apex shortly acuminate, 

 base truncate-rounded to shallowly cordate, the glands obscure, 

 not projecting ; lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the 

 midrib, spreading-curved, very prominent, the nerves and 

 primary lax reticulations impressed on the upper surface; 

 netioles densely ferruginous-pubescent, 5 to 8 mm. long. 

 Eacemes axillary, fascicled, short, few-flowered, densely ferru- 

 ginous-pubescent, about 1 cm. long; pedicels 2 mm. long. 

 Calyx-tube slightly enlarged upward, about 2 mm. long, 

 sparingly pubescent, the lobes 6,. narrowly oblong, pubescent, 

 about 1.2 mm. long. Stamens about 25; filaments 2.5 to 4 

 mm. lono - . Ovary narrowly ovoid, densely ferruginous-pubes- 

 cent, including the style about 6 mm. long, the style pubescent 



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