Alabastra Borneensia, 



By E. D. Merrill. 



Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I. 



Two previous papers on the Borriean flora have recently been 

 published by me*, and the present contribution is in the nature of 

 a continuation of these. Like the preceding papers, it con- 

 sists chiefly of the description of apparently undescribed species 

 in various genera, and the recording to Borneo for the first time 

 of a number of previously described species of other authors. In 

 the present communication forty-eight new species and one new 

 genus are proposed in the families Ulmaceae, Anacardiaceae, Elaeo- 

 carpaceae, Myriaeeae, Loganiaceae, Apocynaceae, Rubiaceae, and 

 Compositae. The larger number of additions to the Bornean flora, 

 so far as the present -paper is concerned, are found in the Myrtaceae, 

 especially in the genus Eugenia, and in the Elaeocarpaceae. 



ULMACEAE. 



Gironmera, Gaudichaud. 



■Gironniera paucinervia, sp. now 



Arbor glabra partibus exeeptis junioribus et stipulis et 

 fructibus minute adpresse strigillosis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, in 

 siccitate pallidis, usque ad 10 cm. longis, glabris vel subtus 

 minutissime scaberulis, basi acutis, aequilateralibus vel sub- 

 aequilateralibus, apice tenuiter subcaudato-acuminatis, margine 

 integris vel sursum obscure crenulatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6 

 adscendentibus curvatis anastomosantibus ; infructescentiis 

 axillaribus, solitariis, 1 ad 2 cm. longis; fructibus panels, 

 plerumque 1 vel 2, ovoideis, compressis, circiter S mm. longis, 

 acuminatis. 



A tree, the younger parts, stipules, and fruits minutely 

 appressed strigillose, otherwise glabrous. Branches terete, 

 slender, glabrous, grayish, the very young branchlets very 

 sparingly appressed-strigillose. Leaves oblong-ovate, coria- 

 ceous, 5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. wide, rather pale when 



* Merrill, E. D. Notes on the Flora of Borneo. Philip. Journal Science 

 11 (1916) Bot. 49-100; Contributions to our Knowledge of the Flora of 

 Borneo. Jour, Str. Branch. Roij. As. Soc. 76 (1917) 75-117. 



.Tour. Straits Branch It. A. Soc. No. 77, 1917. 



