92 ON THE FLOEA OF BOENEO. 



solitary, simple, up to 12 cm. long, the basal part of the 

 peduncle with several pairs of conspicuous, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, pubescent, 5 to 7 mm. long bracts; pedicels pubes- 

 cent, 4 to 5 mm. long; bracteoles inconspicuous. 'Calyx about 

 2 mm. in diameter, pubescent, the lobes triangular, acute, about 

 0.5 mm. long. Disk very prominent, glabrous, thick, as wide 

 as the calyx in fruit. Fruits 9 mm. long, strongly inflated, 

 ovoid, inequilateral, rounded at both ends, red, glabrous, 

 slightly keeled, prominently reticulate, the stigma distinctly 

 lateral, situated at about 2 mm. below the rounded apex of 

 the fruit. 



British North Borneo, Ivalabakan watershed, Villamil 

 235, October 6, 1916, along the margins of swamps at sealevel. 



A rather strongly marked species, in vegetative characters 

 somewhat resembling Antidesma stipulare, Blume, but radical- 

 ly different in its fruit characters. It is readily distinguish- 

 able by its rubiginous-pubescent racemes, the piant otherwise 

 entirely glabrous, and its strongly inflated fruits which are 

 rounded at both ends, the stigmas distinctly lateral, not 

 terminal. 



Sauropus, Blume. 



Sauropus androgyna, (Linn.) Merr. in Forestry Bur. (Philip.) 

 Bull. 1 (1903) 30. 



Cluytia androgyna, Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 128. 

 Sauropus albicans, Blnme, Bijdr. (1825) 596. 



British North Borneo, Jesselton, Topping 1934, 

 December 4, 1916. 



India to China southward to Java and the Moluccas. 



Ostodes, Blume. 



Ostodes villamilii, sp. nov. § Desmostemon. 



Arbor, partibus junioribus exceptis glabra; foliis sub- 

 coriaceis, integris, oblongis vel elliptico-oblongis, usque ad 16 

 cm. longis, basi acutis, vix glandulosis, apice acutis vel obtusis, 

 nervis utrinque 8 ad 10, subtus prominentibus ; inflorescentiis 

 axillaribus, paniculatis, usque ad 12 cm. longis; floribus $ 

 numerosis, calyci irregulariter 3-flsso, lobis integris vel 2- 

 lobatis; petalis oblongo-ellipticis, integris, obtusis, circiter 4.5 

 mm. longis, intus villosis; staminibus circiter 7, fllamentis 

 brevibus, pilosis. 



A tree, according to the collector about 30 m. high, dioe- 

 cious, the inner bark yellowish, with the odor of Jatropha 

 curcas, the twigs yielding a reddish sap. Branches terete, 

 grayish, glabrous, the branchlets appressed-pubescent with 



Jour. Straits Branch 



