ALABASTRA BORNEENSIA. 217 



The characteristic features of this species are its slender 

 terete branchlets. its brown, coriaceous, prominently caudate- 

 acuminate, obscurely nerved leaves which are sparingly pitted 

 on the upper surface, and its very short, few-flowered, axillary 

 and terminal inflorescences. 



Eugenia punctilirnba, sp. nov. § Jambosa. 



Arbor glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus ; foliis obovato- 

 oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 7 cm. longis, obtusis vel 

 rotundatis, basi acutis, supra distincte impresso-punetatis, sub- 

 olivaceis, nitidis, utrinque concoloribus, leviter glanduloso- 

 punctatis, nervis utrinque numerosis tenuibus densis ; inflores- 

 centiis terminalibus, 2 ad 3 cm. longis, pauciramosis, axi 

 ramulisque -plus minusve 4-angulatis erassis ; foribus 5-meris, 

 circiter 3 mm. longis, obovoideis, omnibus sessilibus, ad apices 

 ramulorum dense confertis. 



A glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets slender, 

 terete, pale-brownish, or the very youngest branchlets obscurely 

 4-angled, 1.5 to 2 mm. in diameter. Leaves opposite, cori- 

 aceous, obovate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, 4 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 

 3.5 cm. wide, apex obtuse to rounded, base acute. , margins 

 slightly recurved, the upper surface subolivaceous, somewhat 

 shining, distinctly pitted, the lower surface of the same color, 

 somewhat glandular-punctate ; lateral nerves slender, rather 

 densely arranged, about 30 on each side of the midrib, straight, 

 anastomosing with the marginal veins about 1 mm. from the 

 edge of the leaf ; petioles dark-brown, rugose, about 2 mm. 

 long. Inflorescences terminal, 2 to 3 cm. long, usually 

 ped uncled, trichotomously branched, the axis and branches 

 dark-brown, rather stout, usually 4-angled, the flowers sessile, 

 densely crowded at the tips of the few branches, the in- 

 florescences 2.5 to 3 cm. wide. Flowers apparently white, in 

 bud obovoid, about 3 mm. long, the subtending bracteoles tri- 

 angular-ovate, acute, 0.8 mm. long. Calyx-tube narrowed 

 below, brown, somewhat shining when dry, the teeth 5, ovate, 

 acute, 0.5 mm. long. Petals orbicular, 1.5 mm. in diameter, 

 falling as a calyptra but easily separable. Stamens about 20, 

 inflexed. 



British Xortii Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Marai Parai 

 Spur, Mrs. Clemens 10SSS, November 22, 1915 (type) :. 

 Sarawak, Mount Merinjak, Native collector 251Jf (Bur.Sci.) 

 Feb.-June, 1914. 



This species is well characterized by its densely nerved, 

 rather small, short petioled, obtuse to rounded leaves which 

 are distinctly pitted on the upper surface, as well as by its 

 short terminal inflorescences, the flowers all sessile and 

 crowded at the tips of the branchlets. 



R. A. Soc, No. 77, 1917. 



