244 ALABASTRA BORNEENSIA. 



shaped, about 7 mm. long, dark-brown when dry, densely 

 fulvous-pubescent at the base, otherwise sparingly pubescent 

 externally, inside rather densely pale-pubescent, with 5 short, 

 obscure teeth, eventually irregularly 2- or 3-lobed. Corolla 

 (buds) 12 mm. long, externally densely appressed pale-pubes- 

 cent, the lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, thickened and keeled inside. 

 Anthers 5, linear, -4.5 to 5 mm. long. 



British North Borneo, Khota Balud to Kibaya, trail to 

 Mount Kinabalu, Mrs. Clemens 9811, October 28, 1915. 



A species well characterized by its sessile or subsessile 

 opposite and ternate leaves. 1 know of no other species of the 

 genus that has ternate leaves except the very different Philip- 

 pine Timonius teriiifolius, (Bartl.) F.-Vill. It apparently be- 

 longs in the same group as Timonius anodon, Miq. 



Timonrus dementis, sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, glaberrima ; foliis coriaceis, oblongo-obovatis, 

 usque ad 17 cm. longis, apice breviter acute acuminatis, 

 deorsum angustatis, basi cuneatis, nervis utrinque circiter 

 10, adscendentilms, curvatis, prominentibus, venis reticulatis 

 utrinque valde obscuris; stipulis lanceolatis, acuminatis, 

 2.5 cm. longis; fructibus axillaribus, solitariis, pedunculatis, 

 ovoideis, circiter 1.4 cm. longis, glabris calycis tubo lobisque 

 intus pubescentibus exceptis; yyvenis circiter 18, omnibus verti- 

 calibus. 



A small tree, entirely glabrous except the persistent calyx- 

 tube and lobes (flowers not seen). Branches pale-brownish, 

 terete or obscurely 4-angled, the internodes 5 to 10 mm. long, 

 the petiolar scars prominent, the ultimate branchlets 4 to 5 

 mm. in diameter, the growing parts smooth, reddish-brown. 

 Leaves oblong-obovate, coriaceous, brown and shining when 

 dry, the lower surface paler than the upper, 14 to 17 cm. long, 

 6 to 7 cm. wide,- apex shortly acute-acuminate, narrowed from 

 about the middle to the cuneate base; lateral nerves about 10 

 on each side of the midrib, somewhat ascending, prominent, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations very obscure on both surfaces, 

 netted, sometimes nearly obsolete; petioles dark reddish-brown 

 to nearly black when dry, 1 to 1.5 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, 

 glabrous, slenderly acuminate, 2.5 cm. long, dark-brown when 

 dry. Fruits axillary, solitary, their pedicels 1 cm. in length, 

 the bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 5 mm. long. Fruits 

 ovoid, about 1.4 cm. long, dark-brown or nearly black when 

 dry, terete, glabrous except the inside of the short calyx- tube 

 and lobes which are here appressed-pubescent, the tube about 1 

 mm. long, 2.5 mm. in diameter, the lobes 4, oblong-ovate, acute 

 or acuminate, about 3 mm. long. Pyrenes about 18, all ver- 

 tical. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



