110 ON THE FLOBA OF BOKNEO. 



floribus tubuloso-campanulatis, 3 ad 4 cm. longis, glabris, lobis 

 ellipticis, tubo subaequantibus, bracteolis 1 vel 2, linearibus, 

 usque ad 2 cm. longis, deciduis. 



A shrub or small tree, nearly glabrous except the sparing- 

 ly castaneous-lepidote younger parts and lower surface of 

 the leaves. Branches terete, grayish, smooth, the branchlets 

 reddish-brown, smooth, the younger parts more or less lepidote. 

 Leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, pseudoverticillate, 

 brown when dry, dull or slightly shining, 10 to 20 cm. long, 



1 to 3.3 cm. wide, narrowed below to the acute base and above 

 to the gradually and slenderly acuminate apex, the midrib im- 

 pressed on the upper surface, very prominent on the lower, 

 the latter with few, scattered, dark-brown scales, ultimately 

 glabrous or nearly so; lateral nerves about 18 on each side of 

 the midrib, obsolete or nearly so on the lower surface, on the 

 upper surface slender, obscure, irregular, obscurely anastomos- 

 ing, or on small leaves quite obsolete; petioles stout, brown or 

 pruinose, when young sparingly lepidote, 4 to 10 mm. long. 

 Heads with at least five flowers, the intermixed bracts up to 



2 cm. long, linear, the pedicels about 2 cm. in length, very 

 sparingly lepidote, ultimately glabrous. Calyx disk-like, about 



3 mm. in diameter, each flower subtended by two, rarely one, 

 linear, deciduous bracteoles nearly 2 cm. in length, appearing- 

 ly like greatly elongated calyx-lobes. Corolla glabrous, 

 tubular-campanulate, the tube 1.5 to 2 cm. long, slightly en- 

 larged upward, the lobes 5, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, about 

 as long as the tube, about 1 cm. wide, rounded.. Stamens 10 ; 

 filaments sparingly pubescent in the lower one-half; anthers 

 oblong, 3.5 mm. long. Ovary narrowly oblong, about 7 mm. 

 long, sparingly pubescent; style glabrous, about 1.6 cm. long. 



Sarawak, without definite locality, Native collector 150J+ 

 (Bur. Sci.). 



A species apparently allied to Rhododendron gracile, Low, 

 but. with relatively much narrower leaves, very sparse scales, 

 the older parts quite glabrous, and smaller flowers. 



SYMPLOCACEAE. 



Symplocos, Jacquin. 



Symplocos brachybotrys, sp. nov. § Bolma (Lodhra?). 



Frutex vel arbor parva, partibus junioribus inflorescentiis- 

 que parcissime pubescentibus exceptis glaber, ramis ramulisque 

 brunneis, teretibus ; foliis ellipticis, usque ad 5 cm. longis, 

 coriaceis, basi acutis vel subacutis, apice rotundatis vel late 

 acutis apiculatisque, haud acuminatis, margine glanduloso- 

 denticulatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, distinctis, anastomo- 

 santibus; spicis axillaribus, solitariis, brevissimis, rhachibus 

 circiter 3 mm. longis, 3 — 1-floris; fructibus oblongis, circiter 



Jour. Straits Branch 



