ALABASTEA BOENEENSIA. 2 



pedieelled, white, 5-merous flowers, the bracteoles broad, 

 rounded, coriaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long, the pedicels 1.5 to 2.5 

 cm. long. Calyx about 1 cm. long, brown when dry, base 

 cuneate, the lobes broadly-ovate to suborbicular, rounded,x about 

 5 mm. long. Corolla 5 cm. long, narrowed below, the lobes 

 broadly ovate, rounded, about 1 cm. long; anthers slightly ex- 

 serted, about (3 mm. long. 



British North Borneo, Jcsselton, Mrs. Clemens 9627, 

 December 14, 1915, on hills near the seashore; "also seen at 

 Iviau/' I am disposed to refer here also the following speci- 

 mens from Sarawak: Native collator 383, 776 (Bur. Sci.), 

 May, 1911, with the native name suhung. These two speci- 

 mens differ from the type in having somewhat smaller flowers, 

 the corolla about 3.5 cm. in length, but in other characters 

 closely approximate it. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Fagraea 

 racemose/,. Jack, from which it is distinguished by its much 

 shorter, cymose, rather diffuse inflorescences and long-pedi- 

 celled flowers. It differs from the other Bornean species in 

 this group, namely Fagraea coarctala, Blume, F. crassipes, 

 Benth., F. cuspidata, Blume, and F. robusta, Blume, in its 

 shortly peduncled inflorescences which are cymose, not race- 

 mose in arrangement. 



Fagraea uniflora, sp. nov. 



Frutex scanclens, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis ob- 

 iougis, coriaceis, in siccitate atro-brunneis, usque ad 14 cm. 

 longis, basi acutis, apice tenuiter acute acuminatis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 7, tenuibus, valde obscuris vel subobsoletis ; 

 floribus solitariis, terminalibus, pallide luteis, breviter pedi- 

 cellatis, bibraeteolatis, circiter 13 cm. longis; calijce 3 cm. 

 longo, lobis 6 ovato-ellipticis, circiter 1 cm. longis, coriaceis; 

 coroll'ae tubo S ad 9 cm. longo, lobis 8 vel 9 oblongis vel 

 leviter oblongo-oljovatis, obtusis, coriaceis, circiter 4 cm. 

 longis. 



A scandent shrub, apparently epiphytic, glabrous. 

 Branches and branchlets terete, nearly black when dry, the 

 ultimate ones about 4 mm. in diameter. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblong, 12 to 14 cm. long, 3.8 to 5 cm. wide, the apex rather 

 slenderly acute-acuminate, base acute, margins slightly re- 

 curved, the upper surface blackish-brown when dry, slightly 

 shining, the lower paler, both minutely verruculose, the mid- 

 rib prominent 1 on both surfaces; lateral nerves about 7 on each 

 side of the midrib, very slender, obscure, sometimes obsolete 

 or nearly so ; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, black when dry, base 

 somewhat dilated and clasping the stem. Flower pale-yellow, 

 fragrant, when dry dark-brown, terminal, solitary, the pedicel 



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



