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often apiculate, base acute, the upper surface entirely glabrous, 

 the lower sparingly pubescent on the midrib and lateral nerves; 

 lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 

 anastomosing; petioles about 2 mm. long; stipules acicular, 

 about 8 mm. long, acuminate, pubescent. Spikes solitary, 

 simple, from the lower axils, up to 4 cm. long. Pistillate 

 flowers sessile, 5-merous, the disk-like central part of the 

 calyx thick, about 1.2 mm. in diameter, the lobes membrana- 

 ceous, pubescent, 0.5 mm. long; bracteoles not seen. Fruits 

 red, oblong-ovate, compressed, 1 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, base 

 rounded, apex acute, sparingly strigillose-hirsute externally, 

 laxly reticulate, dark-brown when dry, shining; the stigma 

 terminal. 



British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Lobang, Cle- 

 mens lOSTJ}, November 11, 1915. 



A species well characterized by its lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, prominently acuminate, rather few-nerved leaves, 

 its narrow stipules, and its large, compressed, sessile fruits. 

 In vegetative characters it resembles Antidesma stenophyllum, 

 Merr., differing in its much smaller, fewer-nerved leaves. 

 From Antidesma gibbsiae, Hutchinson, the type of which was 

 from Tenom, and which has sessile 1 cm. long fruits and subu- 

 late stipules, it differs in the same characters as from A. 

 stenopliyllum, Merr. 



Antidesma inflatum, sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 5 m. alta, praeter inflorescentias dense 

 rubiginoso-pubescentes glabra; foliis subcoriaceis, nitidis, 

 subolivaceis, obiongo-ellipticis, usque ad 18 cm. longis, basi- 

 acutis, apice abrupte obtuseque acuminatis, nervis utrinque 

 8 vel 9, subtus prominentibus; stipulis coriaceis, ovatis vel 

 oblongo-ovatis, obtusis vel acuminatis, 5- ad 7-nerviis, 10 ad 12 

 mm. longis, persistentibus ; inflorescentiis 2 terminalibus 

 simplicibus, racemosis, usque ad 12 cm. longis, basi bracteis 

 prominentibus instructis; flo?*ibus 5-meris, calycis lobis brevi- 

 dus, pubescentibus ; fructibus valde inflatis, circiter 9 mm. 

 longis, inaequilateralibus, reticulars, glabris, apice rotundatis, 

 stigmate distincte laterali. 



A tree about 5 m. high, entirely glabrous except the dense- 

 ly rubiginous-pubescent inflorescence. Branches slender, 

 terete, smooth, brownish-olivaceous. Leaves subcoriaceous, 

 oblong-elliptic, subolivaceous, of nearly the same color on both 

 surfaces, shining, 12 to 18 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, base 

 acute, apex abruptly and obtusely acuminate; lateral nerves 

 8 or 9 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower 

 surface, anastomosing, the primary reticulations lax; petioles 



5 to 8 mm. long; stipules persistent, coriaceous, inequilateral, 

 ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse to acuminate, 10 to 12 mm. long, 



6 to 8 mm. wide, 5- to 7-nerved. Fruiting racemes terminal, 



R. A. Soc, No. 76, 1917. 



