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longis, acuminatis, basi rotundatis et leviter cordatis, nervis 

 lateralibus utrinque cireiter 10 valde prominentibus cum intra- 

 marginalibus anastomosantibus : ftoribus terminalibus, soli- 

 tariis vel bin is, medioeribus, distincte pedicellatis, 4-meris. 

 calyeis tubo obconieo, cireiter 1 cm. longo. 



A glabrous tree, the branches smooth, terete, pale, slender, 

 the branchlets 4-angled, narrowly 4-winged, the ultimate inter- 

 nodes 4 to * cm. long, distinctly thickened upward, often 

 terete below, but always 4-angled and winged above. Leaves 

 opposite, subcoriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 10 to 

 13 cm. long, 2 to 3.8 cm. wide, narrowed upward to the 

 rather slenderly acuminate apex, base rounded, slightly cor- 

 date, when dry rather pale, shining; primary lateral nerves 

 about 10 on each side of the midrib, spreading, distant, slightly 

 curved, very prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing 

 with the equally prominent, slightly arched, marginal nerves 

 at from 2 to 4 mm. from the margin ; petioles brown, 2 mm. 

 long or less. Flowers white, terminal, solitary or in pairs, 

 sometimes in a two-flowered raceme, their pedicels about 5 mm. 

 long, each pedicel subtended by two or three pairs of ovate- 

 lanceolate, small, decussate bracts, the flowers subtended by a 

 pair of similar bracteoles. Calyx-tube obconic, about 1 cm. 

 long and wide, brown when dry, smooth, the lobes 4, spreading, 

 reniform, 5 to ? mm. wide ; style about 2.5 cm. long. 



British, Xortii Borxeo, Mount Kinabalu, Kiau, Mrs. 

 Clemens 1012:, November 30, 1915. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with the Philip- 

 pine Eugenia plianeroplilebia, C. B. Rob., and the Javan E. 

 sexangulata, Koord. & Yal., differing from the former especial- 

 ly in its smaller, fewer-nerved leaves, smaller flowers and ob- 

 conic, not cup-shaped calyx-tube, and from the latter by its 

 few flowers, in its vegetative characters and in its 4- (not 6-) 

 angled branchlets, the ultimate ones being distinctly winged. 

 A striking character of the Bornean species is the upward 

 thickening of the ultimate internodes, these usually terete 

 or nearly so below, 4-angled and finally 4-winged in the 

 thickened ripper part. 



Eugenia multibracteolata, sp. nov. § Jamhosa (Leptomyi'tus, 

 Miquel). 



Arbor parva, 3 ad 4 m. alia, glabra, ramis teretibus pur- 

 pureo-brunneis, ramulis pallidis prominente 4-angulatis, inter- 

 nodiis sursum incrassatis et distincte 4-alatis; foliis crasse 

 coriaceis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 11 cm. longis, 

 obtuse acuminatis, basi late rotundatis et distincte cordatis, 

 margine revolutis, brevissime petiolatis, nervis utrinque cir- 

 eiter 15 patulis indistinctis ; cymis axillaribus terminalibusque, 



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



