ON THE FLORA OF BORNEO. 87 



9 cm. longis, olivaceis, nitidis, apice rotundatis vel retusis. 

 basi cuneatis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, distinctis; inflores- 

 centiis axillaribus, pedunculatis, usque ad 5 cm. longis, pauci- 

 floris; floribus circiter 1 cm. diametro; petalis ovatis, acutis, 

 4 mm. longis; fructibus 4 mm. longis. 



A shrub 2 m. 'high or less, quite glabrous or the flores- 

 cence, sparingly pubescent on its younger parts. Branches 

 and branchlets terete, stout, the former brownish-gray, the 

 latter nearly black when dry, the petiolar scars rather pro- 

 minent. Leaves coriaceous, dark-olivaceous when dry, some- 

 what shining, 5.5 to 9 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. wide, apex broadly 

 rounded, sometimes retuse, base narrowed, cuneate, the lower 

 surface paler than the upper, with very numerous, small, 

 brownish glands; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the 

 midrib, slender but rather prominent, obscurely anastomosing; 

 petioles rather stout, 1 to 1.4 cm. long. Cymes axillary, up 

 to 5 cm. long, pednncled, few-flowered, the pedicels 4 mm. 

 long, the bracteoles broadly ovate, thick, about 1 mm. long. 

 Flowers 4-merous, about 1 cm. in diameter. Calyx nearly 

 square in outline, 3 mm. wide, the lobes short, rounded to 

 acute, thick, concave. Petals ovate, punctate, 4 mm. long, 

 3 mm. wide, acute, persistent. Fertile stamens 4, opposite 

 the sepals, their filaments 4 mm. long, with four alternating, 

 sterile, 2 mm. long filaments opposite and attached to the 

 base of the petals. Disk prominent. Ovary depressed, sunk 

 in the disk, the top broadly pyramidal and obscurely 4-lobed ; 

 style 3 mm. long. Fruit composed of four, erect, free or 

 nearly free, oblong, thickly coriaceous, 6 mm. long cocci. 



British Xorth Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Marai Parai 

 Spur, Clemens 11025, December 1, 1915, growing in open 

 places, the flowers green or greenish. 



A characteristic representative of this small genus, readily 

 distinguished by its rather large flowers. It is apparently 

 most closely allied to Tetractomia tetrandra (Boxb.) (Meli- 

 cope tetrandra, Boxb., Tetractomia roxburghii, Hook, f.) of the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



MELIACEAE. 



Aglaia, Loureiro. 



Aglaia borneensis, sp. nov. § Hearnia. 



Arbor parva, circiter 4 m. alta, ramulis et petiolis et in- 

 florescentiis densissime minuteque stellato-tomentosis, indu- 

 mento brunneo; foliis circiter 1 m. longis, foliolis circiter 31, 

 al terms, longe petiolulatis, oblongis, basi inaequilateralibus, 

 rotundatis vel superioribus acutis, apice perspicue acumina- 

 tis, usque ad 22 cm. longis et 7 cm. latis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 20, supra impressis, subtus prominentibus, subtus plus 



B. A. Soc, No. 76, 1917. 



