238 ALABASTRA BORNEENSIA. 



A scandent shrub, the younger parts and inflorescences 

 more or less pubescent. Branches terete, reddish-brown, 

 smooth or scabrid, about 3 mm. in diameter, the branchlets 

 prominently 4-angled, scabrid and pubescent with short 

 spreading hairs, the internodes 2 to 7 cm. long. Leaves in 

 whorls of fours, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, very thickly cori- 

 aceous, 3 to 4.5 cm. long. 1.2 to 2 cm. wide, apex rounded, base 

 acute or subacute, the margins very strongly recurved, the very 

 young ones pubescent on both surfaces with scattered, short 

 spreading hairs, the older ones entirely glabrous, upper surface 

 olivaceous, shining, the lower paler, the midrib here very pro- 

 minent, the nerves and reticulations obsolete, the upper surface 

 with about 15 pairs of faint nerves spreading at an angle of 

 90°, slightly impressed; petioles 3 to 5 mm. long. Cymes 

 axillary, peduneled, few-flowered, cinereous-pubescent, their 

 peduncles 5 to 10 mm. long. Flowers white, 3 to 5 on each 

 peduncle, the bracts oblong-ovate to ovate, subobtuse, 1.5 mm. 

 long, the bracteoles similar, smaller, sparingly pubescent. 

 Calyx 2 mm. long, the lobes o, ovate, obtuse, pubescent, 1 mm. 

 long. Corolla-tube about 6 mm. long, glabrous externally, 

 pubescent within, the lobes broadly ovate,, spreading, obtuse, 

 2 mm. long. Anthers 1 mm. long. Ovary densely pubescent; 

 style glabrous, 3 mm. long. 



Sarawak, Mount Santubong, Native collector 222^ (Bur. 

 ScL), February-June, 1914. 



A very strongly characterized species apparently most 

 closely allied to Alyxia oleifolia, King & Gamble, of the Malay 

 Peninsula, differing, however, in its smaller leaves which are 

 rounded at the apex, pubescent cymes, broad calyx lobes, and 

 other characters. 



Alyxia odorata, Wall., Cat. (1829) No. 1606; King & Gamble in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74 2 (1907) 418. 



Sarawak, Matang Eoad, Native collector S57 (Bur. ScL), 

 August 11, 1911, with the native name patulc manuk. 



The identification has been made from the description 

 given by King and Gamble ; the Bornean specimen, cited above, 

 differs in having the leaves distinctly acuminate. Tenasserim 

 to Malacca and Singapore. 



RUBIACEAE. 



Timonius, de Candolle. 



In 1909 Dr. Th. Yaleton* published a consideration of the 

 Malayan species of Timonius in which he recognized thirty-three 



*Valeton, Th. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Gattung Timonius. Bull. 

 De'pt. Agr. Ind. Neerl. 26 (1909) 1-61. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



