242 ALAB ASTRA BORNEENSIA. 



bricate, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, nearly as wide, pubescent on the 

 median portion inside, otherwise glabrous. Fruits solitary, 

 depressed-globose, immature ones 1.5 cm. in diameter, the 

 pericarp thick, corky, brittle, dark-brown inside, externally ap- 

 pressed-pubescent with somewhat ferruginous short hairs, the 

 pyrenes about IS, all vertical; calyx-lobes persistent, brown 

 when dry, broadly ovate obtuse, irregular, two larger ones 

 about 10 mm. long, the three smaller ones '7 mm. long ; pedicels 

 pubescent, 2 to 3 mm. long; bracteoles persistent, forming an 

 involucre surrounding and including the fruit, broadly ovate, 

 2.5 to 3 cm. long, about 2.5 cm. wide, obtuse, brown when dry, 

 entire or distinctly 3-lobed, glabrous except at the base inside, 

 subcoriaceous. 



Sarawak, Native collector 1252 (Bur. Sci). 



A remarkable species apparently not closely allied to any 

 previously described form. It is well characterized by its 

 nearly sessile, axillary, solitary fruits, the prominent, irregular, 

 broadly ovate, persistent calyx lobes, the very large bracteoles 

 forming an involucre about the fruits; and the large stipules. 



Timonius hirsutus, sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor; foliis oppositis, chartaceis ad subcori- 

 aceis, ovato-ellipticis ad obovato-ellipticis, usque ad 25 cm. 

 longis, utrinque plus minusve hirsutis, supra castaneis, subtus 

 brunneis, apice breviter acute acuminatis', basi decurrento- 

 acuminatis, nervis utrinque 9 to 11 prominentibus, venis reti- 

 culatis ; stipulis oblongo-lanceolatis, hirsutis, acuminatis, 2 cm. 

 longis; ft or ib us $ axillaribus, dense confertis, circiter 1.5 cm. 

 longis, 5-meris; calycis ]obis 5, oblongis, obtusis, circiter 6 mm. 

 longis, utrinque hirsutis. 



A shrub or tree, the branchlets, petioles, leaves on both 

 surfaces, and the dense inflorescences more or less fulvous or 

 ferruginous-hirsute. Branches pale, nearly glabrous, the branch- 

 lets dark-brown or castaneous, fulvous-hirsute with spreading, 

 scattered, short hairs. Leaves opposite, chartaceous to sub- 

 coriaceous, ovate-elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 20 to 25 cm. long, 

 11 to 13 cm. wide, .the apex shortly acute-acuminate, base nar- 

 rowed, decurrent-acuminate, the upper surface castaneous, shin- 

 ing, the midrib and nerves rather densely fulvous-hirsute, the 

 surface with scattered similar hairs, the lower surface brown or 

 pale-brownish, subferruginous-pubescent on the midrib, nerves, 

 and reticulations ; lateral nerves 9 to 11 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, prominent, curved, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, 

 netted, the primary ones lax, vsubparallel ; petioles rather dense- 

 ly fulvous-hirsute, 1.5 to 3 cm. long; stipules oblong-lanceolate, 

 coriaceous, acuminate, about 2 cm. long, 8 mm. wide below, 

 dorsally rather densely fulvous-hirsute, inside pale-pubescent. 

 Inflorescences axillary, the flowers densely crowded in con- 



Jour. Straits Branch 



