100 ON THE FLOEA OF BORNEO. 



paucifloris; fructibus ovoideis, in siccitate circiter 8 mm. 

 longis. 



A shrub about 1.5 m. high, entirely glabrous except the' 

 very sparingly appressed-pubescent inflorescences. Branches 

 and branchlets slender, terete, smooth, reddish-brown. Leaves 

 lanceolate, 12 to 15 cm. long, 3.5 to 4 cm. wide, chartaceous, 

 gradually narrowed from below the middle to the slenderly 

 acuminate apex, the base acute, the upper surface suboliva- 

 ceous, shining, the lower dirty white, dull; lateral nerves very 

 indistinct, the primary ones about 10 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, curved, rather more distinct on the upper than on the 

 lower surface; petioles 3 to 4 mm. long. Inflorescences axil- 

 lary and terminal, few, possibly only one-flowered, the 

 peduncles about as long as the petioles. Flowers not seen. 

 Fruit yellow when mature, fleshy, when dry ovoid, about 8 

 mm. long, nearly black in color, somewhat shining. 



British North Borneo, Sandakan, Villamil 1S5, March. 

 21, 1916, in forests beyond the Eeservoir, altitude about 100 

 meters. 



A species well characterized by its lanceolate, slenderly 

 acuminate leaves which are whitish on the lower surface. It 

 may be allied to Wikstroemia ridleyi, Gamble, which has been 

 reported from Sandakan by Miss Gibbs, but is very different 

 from that form as described. 



Wikstroemia subcoriacea, sp. nov. 



Frutex usque ad 2 m. altus, glaberrimus, ramulis juniori- 

 bus leviter compressis; foliis oppositis, anguste oblongis, sub- 

 coriaceis, circiter 4 cm. longis, utrinque a cutis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 5, baud prominentibus ; inflorescentiis axillaribus ter- 

 minalibusque, cernuis, pedunculatis, paucifloris; floribus 

 glabris, capitato-racemose dispositis. tubo circiter 8 mm. longo; 

 ovario glabro; squamis hypogynis linearibus, circiter 1 mm. 

 longis. 



A shrub about 2 m. high, entirely glabrous. Branches 

 terete, usually reddish-brown, the branchlets darker in color, 

 more or less compressed or somewhat angular, the internodes 

 on the branchlets 1 cm. long or less. Leaves opposite, some- 

 what crowded toward the tips of the branchlets, narrowly ob- 

 long, about 4 cm. long, 10 to 12 mm. wide, greenish-olivaceons 

 when dry, the lower surface sometimes somewhat glaucescent, 

 acute at both ends, subcoriaceous; lateral nerves about 5 on 

 each side of the midrib, not prominent, obscurely anastomos- 

 ing : petioles 2 to 3 mm. long. Inflorescences axillary and 

 terminal, their peduncles less than 1 cm. long, cernuous, stiff, 

 persistent, bearing usually about 5 racemose-capitate flowers 

 Flowers greenish-yellow, glabrous, their pedicels distinct but 

 1 mm. in length or less, the tube about 8 mm. long; lobes 



Jour. Straits Branch 



