102 ON THE FLORA OF BORNEO. 



rostrate-acuminate, the connectives not produced, the anterior 

 appendages less than 1 mm. long, thin, the dorsal appendage 

 thin, membranaceous, about as long as the anterior ones ; 

 sterile filaments much shorter than the fertile ones, each with 

 a pair of slender, filiform, reflexed, 3 to 3.5 mm. long appen- 

 dages at the apex. 



Beitish Xoetii Boeneo, Kalabakan watershed, along the 

 Pinajas Eiver, Yillamil 21^2, October 8, 1916, altitude about 

 20 meters. 



An anomalous species on account of its fertile anthers 

 lacking the long filiform anterior appendages, which, however, 

 are present at the apices Of the sterile filaments. It agrees 

 best with the characters of the § Diplostemones, but on account 

 of the short anterior and posterior appendages of the fertile 

 anthers, and the filiform appendages of the sterile filaments,. 

 I have made it the type of a new section, Disparistemones. 



HALORRHAGACEAE. 



Halorrhagis, Forster. 



Halorrhagis scabra, (Koenig) Benth., var. elongata, Schindl. in 

 Engl. Pflanzenreich, 25 (1905) 20. 



Beitish Xoetpi Boexeo, Jesselton, Topping lko^, Octo- 

 ber, 1915, a common weed along roadsides. 



Southern China and the Philippines, with a variety in 

 India. 



ERICACEAE. 

 Vacclnium, Linnaeus. 

 Vaccinium dementis, sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor usque ad 12 m. altus, glaber ; foliis ob- 

 longo-obovatis, usque ad 3.5 cm. longis, apice rotundatis, basi 

 cuneatis, integris, subtus puncticulatis, nervis utrinque 2 vel 

 3, adscendentibus, obscuris; racemis in axillis superioribus, 

 1.5 ad 3 cm. longis, paucifloris; floribus circiter 1 cm. longis; 

 corolla leviter inflata, sursum leviter angustata; filamentis 

 villosis; antheris 1 mm. longis, dorso minute 2-aristatis, ap- 

 penclicibus tubulosis, latis. 



A shrub or tree attaining a height of 12 m. glabrous or 

 nearly so. Branches slender, terete, reddish-brown or some- 

 what grayish, smooth, the branchlets somewhat angular. 

 Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire, brownish or olivaceous 

 when dry, shining, oblong-obovate, 2 to 3.5 cm. long, 0.8 to 

 1.5 mm. wide, apex rounded, base gradually narrowed from 

 above the middle, cuneate, margins somewhat recurved, the 

 lower surface more or less glandular-puncticulate ; midrib 



Jour. Straits Branch 



