234 ALABASTRA BORNEENSIA. 



obscure on the upper surface, very prominent on the lower sur- 

 face, dark-brown in contrast to the paler epidermis, spreading, 

 slightly curved, scarcely anastomosing, the reticulations ob- 

 solete; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long; stipules subreniform, cori- 

 aceous, reflexed, persistent, about 1.5 cm. wide and 1 cm. long. 

 Flowers terminal, sessile, solitary, white, the calyx subtended 

 and enclosed by an involucre of four, thickly coriaceous, brown 

 (when dry), acute to acuminate bracteoles about 4 cm. long 

 and 2 to 2.5 cm. wide which closely invest the calyx. Calyx 7 

 cm. long, the tube broad, scarcely 1 cm. in length, the lobes 

 brown when dry, thickly coriaceous, oblong-ovate, acuminate, 6 

 cm. long, 2.5 to 3 cm. wide, imbricate. Corolla-tube thickly 

 coriaceous, 15 cm. long, dark-brown when dry, when somewhat 

 flattened 8 mm.- wide at the base and 3 cm. wide at the apex, 

 the lobes 5, spreading or recurved, coriaceous, ovate, rounded, 

 3.5 to 4 cm. long. Anthers somewhat exserted, oblong-ellip- 

 soid, 1 cm. long. 



Sarawak, Mount Sudan, Native collector 20SS (Bur, 

 Sci.) February- June, 1914. 



This remarkable species is manifestly allied to Fagraea 

 macroscypha, Baker, and in fact 1 first referred it to Baker's 

 species. It differs in its distinctly acuminate, not acute, larger 

 leaves, larger calyx, and corolla, and perhaps in other charac- 

 ters. Baker's description is imperfect in some respects, and he 

 does not indicate the number of bracteoles in his species. 



Fagraea cymosa, sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus, glauco- 

 pruinosis, vel ramulis junioribus brunneis et leviter compressis; 

 foliis late ovatis, vel elliptico-ovatis, crasse coriaceis, usque ad 

 23 cm. longis, in siccitate brunneis, apice abrupte acuminatis, 

 basi late truncato-rotundatis, nervis utrinque 6 ad 8, promin- 

 entibus; iiiflorescentiis terminalibus, cymosis, diffusis, usque ad 

 11 cm. longis, breviter pedunculatis, dichotomis ; fioribus 2 vel 

 3 in ramulis ultimis dispositis, longe pedicellatis, circiter 5.5 

 cm. longis. Species F. racemosae, Jack, affinis. 



A small glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets terete, 

 glaucous-pruinose, or the younger branchlets brown and some- 

 what compressed, the ultimate ones 3 to 5 mm. in diameter. 

 Leaves brown when dry, thickly coriaceous, slightly shining, 

 broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, 17 to 23 cm. long, 11 to 15 cm. 

 wide, apex abruptly acuminate, base broadly rounded-truncate; 

 lateral nerves 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations lax, indistinct; petioles brown 

 or pruinose, about 1 cm. long. Cymes terminal, diffuse, dicho- 

 tomous, up to 11 cm. in length, the peduncles 1.5 to 3.5 cm. 

 long, the ultimate branches of the cymes bearing 2 or 3, long- 



Jour. Straits Branch 



