ALAB ASTRA. BORNEENSIA. 24-5 



gested cymes, the peduncles scarcely 3 mm. long, all parts more 

 or less ferruginous-hirsute. Staminate flowers sessile, about 

 1.5 cm. long. Calyx tube 5 mm. long, ovoid, externally densely 

 fulvous-hirsute, dark-brown, inside densely pubescent with 

 paJler, shining hairs, the lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, 6 to T mm. 

 long. Corolla-tube 1 cm. long, externally densely pale-pubes- 

 cent, the lobes 5, spreading, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 1 to 5 mm. 

 long. Bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent on both 

 surfaces, 9 to 11 mm. long. 



■Sarawak, Baram District, Miri, Hose 651, April 20, 1895. 



A most characteristic species, recognizable by its indu- 

 mentum, its rather large leaves which are castaneous above and 

 pale-brownish beneath, and especially by its very densely 

 crowded flowers. It does not appear to be very closely allied 

 to any previously described species. 



Timonius heterophyllus, sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque ferru- 

 gineo-pubescentibus, ramis teretibus glabris, ramulis distincte 

 3-angulatis.; foliis oppositis, superioribus ternatis, oblongo- 

 obovatis, acute acuminatis, basi angustatis, rotundatis vel levi- 

 ter cordatis, subsessilibus, usque ad IT cm. longis, nitidis, sub- 

 tus leviter pubescentibus, nervis utrinque 8 to 10, prominen- 

 tibus; venis reticularis ; stipulis lanceolatis, tenuiter acumina- 

 tis, pubescentibus, circiter 12 mm. longis; inflorescentiis $ 

 axillaribus, pedunculatis, dichotomis, ramis spicatim unilater- 

 aliter 3- ad 6-floris; floribus 5-meris, junioribus circiter 12 

 mm. longis. 



A small tree, the branches pale, glabrous, terete, the 

 bran chiefs about 3 mm. in diameter, glabrous, distinctly 3- 

 angled. Lower leaves opposite, the .upper ones ternate, charta- 

 ceous, oblong-obovate, 11 to 17 cm. long, 4 to 7 cm. wide, sub- 

 sessile, the apex shortly acute-acuminate, narrowed below to 

 the rounded or somewhat cordate base which is 1.2 to 1.5 cm. 

 wide, the upper surface dark-brown when dry, shining, glab- 

 rous, the lower pale-brown, appressed ferruginous-pubescent on 

 the midrib and nerves and with short scattered pale hairs on 

 the epidermis; lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, prominent, somewhat curved, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions netted, slender, indistinct; petioles pubescent, 1.5 mm. 

 long or less; stipules lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, 12 mm. 

 long, dark-brown when dry, slightly pubescent, coriaceous. 

 Staminate inflorescences axillary, peduncled, the rachis and 

 branches rather densely fulvous-pubescent, the former up to 

 2.5 cm. long, the branches two, spiciform, up to 2 cm. in 

 length, spreading, bearing 3 to 6 sessile unilaterally arranged 

 flowers, the bracteoles densely pubescent, oblong to oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse to acuminate, 2 to 4 mm. long. Calyx cup- 

 it. A. Soc, No. 77, 1917. 



