New or Noteworthy Bornean Plants. 
(PART I.) 
By Humer D, Merriun 
Director, Bureau of Scence, Manila. 
In January, 1918, I finished the manuscript of my ‘Biblio 
sraphic Enumeration of bornean Plants? in which nearly Sid 
species of flowering plants are recorded from Borneo, and which 
was recently published by this Society. In the interim compara- 
tively little attention was given to the Bornean flora, merely such 
material being worked up as was submitted to me for identification. 
by the Conservator of Forests at Sandakan. 
Previous to my departure for the United States in 1920. 
co-operative arrangements were perfected between the Bureau of 
Science and the Forestry Service of British North Borneo, whereby 
it became possible to send Mr. Maximo Ramos. botanical collector 
of the Bureau of Science, to Sandakan for the purpose of prose- 
euting field work in botany in British North Borneo. Mr. Ramos 
devoted approximately three and one-half months to field work in 
the immediate vicinity of Sandakan, from September to December 
1920. In this time he collected 827 numbers of flowering plants. 
and ferns, for the most part with ample dupheate material. On my 
return to Manila in the early part of 1921, I commenced a study of 
this material, finding approximately 700 species represented in the 
collection, of which nearly 100 have been found to represent previous-. 
ly undescribed forms, including three new generic types. In ad- 
dition to these new specie:, numerous previously described ones not 
hitherto known from Borneo are also represented in the collection. 
Considering the fact that the entire collection was made at low 
altitudes and in the immediate vicinity of Sandakan, the percent- 
age of novelties is unusually high. It is merely an excellent illus-. 
tration of how little we know regarding the Bornean flora. 
The present paper is largely based on the material secured by 
Mr. Ramos in 1920 in British North Borneo, but various species are 
also described from material secured by other collectors both in 
British North Borneo and in Sandakan. Small collections made by 
Major J.C. Moulton in Upper Baram in 1914 and 1920 have yielded 
interesting novelties. Inthe present paper 104 species are described 
* Journ. Straits Branch Roy. As. Soc. Special Number, pp. 1-637.. 
September. 1921. 
Jopr. Straits Branch R. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922... 
