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terete, dark-colored, glabrous, above somewhat puberulent, the 

 branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves scattered, oblong-ovate 

 to oblong-elliptic, firmly chartaceous, 10 to 15 cm. long, 5 to 

 7 cm. wide, the upper surface brownish, glabrous, somewhat 

 shining, the lower paler, softly pubescent on the midrib and 

 lateral nerves, and with scattered, minute, brownish glands 

 over the entire surface, base subacute, apex prominently 

 acuminate, acumen 1 to 1.5 cm. long, blunt, margins crenate, 

 the teeth usually supplied with a short appressed mucro ; lateral 

 nerves 7 or 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, somewhat 

 curved, anastomosing, the reticulations rather lax, distinct; 

 petioles 3 to 6 cm. long, when young densely pubescent, ulti- 

 mately glabrous ; stipules linear, acuminate, about 5 mm. long, 

 densely pubescent except the glabrous, black, mucronate tip, 

 usually with a small lateral lobe from near the base. Eacemes 

 about 10 cm. long, solitary from the axils of fallen leaves, 

 pubescent, about 30-flowerecl, flowers greenish-yellow and white, 

 5-merous, scattered, ebracteolate, their pedicels slender, about 

 7 mm. long. Sepals lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, 5 mm. 

 long, 1.8 mm. wide, externally uniformly but not densely 

 appressed-pubescent. Petals in outline obovate-cuneate, 6 mm. 

 long, glabrous except the minutely pubescent margins in the 

 lower part, the upper one-half cut into about 24 filiform 

 fimbriae which are arranged in phalanges of three each, 

 gradually narrowed to the cuneate base. Stamens about 30, 

 their filaments 1 to 1.2 mm. long; anthers oblong, scabrid, 1.2 

 mm. long, the cells obtuse, one slightly exceeding the other 

 and minutely ciliate, the ciliae usually 3, short, obscure. Disk 

 glands five, globose, prominent, pubescent. Ovary ovoid, 

 pubescent, 5-celled; style thickened below, about 2.5 mm. long. 

 Fruit globose-ellipsoid, about 1.5 cm. in diameter, smooth, 

 the endocarp very hard, smooth, 5-celled, but usually deve- 

 loping only three seeds. 



British Xortec Borneo, Sandakan, Yillamil 116, Janu- 

 ary 2, 1913, in rocky soil near the Government Office, altitude 

 about 17 meters. 



A species apparently most closely allied to Elaeocarpus 

 stipularis, Blume, which is placed by some authors in the sec- 

 tion Ganitrus, by others in the section Dicera. It differs, 

 however, in very many details of its vegetative characters, its 

 stipules, and its floral characters. 



TILIACEAE. 



Grewia, Linnaeus. 



Grewia sty!ocarpa,.Warb., var. longipetiolata, var. nov. 



A typo differt petiolis paullo longioribus, circiter 2 cm. 

 longis, glandulis basilaribus glabris, haud barbatis. 



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



