112 ON THE FLOEA OF BOENEO. 



serrate, the midrib impressed on the upper surface; lateral 

 nerves 7 to 9 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, 

 anastomosing; petioles pubescent, 1 to 2 mm. long. Flowers 

 white, axillary, solitary, about 8 mm. in diameter, their pedicels 

 pubescent, 5 to 6 mm. long, each with two, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, pubescent, 3 to 4 mm. long, deciduous bracteoles 

 subtending the flower. Calyx somewhat campanulate, pubes- 

 cent, the lobes 5, broadly ovate, rounded, about 1 mm. long, 

 margins minutely ciliate. Petals orbicular-ovate, rounded, 4 

 mm. long. Stamens about 40; filaments 3 to 5 mm. long. 

 Young fruits sparingly appressed-pubescent, narrowly oblong, 

 at 'maturity nearly black, glabrous, oblong-ellipsoid, about 1 

 cm. long, the pericarp fleshy. 



British Xorth Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Paka Cave, 

 Clemens 10559, Xovember 12, 1915, along streams, altitude 

 about 3000 meters. 



A species in the same group -with, and allied to Symplocos 

 joliniana, Stapf, and S. zizyphoides, Stapf, and distinctly closer 

 to the latter from which it is distinguished especially by its 

 smaller leaves which are acute at the base. 



Symplocos phanerophlebia, Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 

 (1914) Bot. 382. 



British Xoeth Borneo, Sanclakan, Tillamil 182, March 

 16, 1913, on hills beyond the Wireless Station, altitude about 

 40 meters. 



The specimen is an excellent match for the type of the 

 species, which was from Leyte. It is distinct from Symplocos 

 fasciculata, Zoll., of which I have a large series of specimens 

 from the Malay Peninsula, Java, and Borneo. 



CONVOLVULACEAE. 

 M erremia, Dennstedt. 



Merremia hederacea, (Bnrm.) Hallier f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrk 

 18 (1894) 118. 



Evolvulus hederaceus, Burm. Fl. Ind. (1768) 77. 

 M'trremia convolvulacea, Demist. Schl. Hort. Malabar. (1818) 

 39. 



British Xorth Borneo, Jesselton, Topping 191+h, 

 Xovember, 1916. 



Tropical Asia and Africa through Malaya to the Philip- 

 pines and north eastern Australia. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



