152 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
as new, while 58 previously described forms are recorded for the 
first time from Borneo. Three new genera are described, Fissipeta- . 
lum of the Olacaceae, Juppra of the Menispermaceae, and Woodiella 
of the Anonaceae. The list of species common and confined to the 
Philippines and Borneo has been increased by Dinochloa pubira- 
mea Gamble, Mapana affims Merr., Dioscorea “fiabellifolia Prain & 
Burkill, Phacelophrynium bracteosum KX. Schum., Polyalthia doli- 
chophylla Merr., Dehaasia triandra Merr., Evodia bintoco Blanco, 
Santiria samarensis Merr., Dichapetalum holopetalum Merr., Acte- 
phila dispersa Merr., Cleistanthus megacarpus C, B. Rob., Ompha- 
lea bracteata Merr., [odes philippinensis Merr., Hugenia palawan- 
ensis C, B. Rob., Strychnos ignatu Bere., and Solanum epiphyticum 
Merr. In addition to the three genera ‘described as new, mentioned 
abov e, the following genera are “hitherto unrecorded from Borneo: 
*hacelophrynium, Tlligera, Cnestis, Actephila, Lodes, Actinidia, 
Taraktogenos, and Clidemia. Including the species described as 
new and those previously described forms now credited to Borneo 
for the first time, the present contribution (published in two parts) 
adds a total of 162 species to the list of those known from Borneo. 
Bureau of Science Manila, P. I. 
November 15, 1921. 
PANDANACEAE. 
Pandanus Linnaeus f. 
Pandanus sandakanensis sp. nov. § Rykia. 
Frutex circiter 3 m. altus; foliis coriaceis, circiter 1.75 m. 
longis, 3 cm. latis, tenuiter acuminatis, nitidis, margine acute ser- 
ratis, costa subtus in partibus superioribus serratis; syncarplis 3 
ad 5, ovoideis vel ellipsoideis, confertis, in spica dispositis, 6 ad 8 
em. longis; drupis numerosis, 1-locellatis, induratis, 2 cm. longis, 
circiter 1 cm. latis, angulatis, deorsum angustatis, alte connatis, 
‘apice convexis, stylo abrupte terminatis: sty ‘lis induratis, obliquis, 
4 mm. longis et latis, nitidis, plerumque 2-dentatis. 
A shrub about 3m, high. Leaves coriaceous, shining, smooth, 
about 1.75 m. long, 3 cm. wide, the midrib somewhat impressed on 
the upper surface, prominent on the lower surface, smooth except 
in the upper part and beneath where it is finely toothed; the lateral 
nerves slender, obscure, about 30 on each side of the midrib, the 
margins rather coarsely and sharply toothed in the lower part and 
with much more numerous, smaller, rather densely arranged teeth 
in the upper part, the apex very slenderly caudate-acuminate. Syn- 
carps crowded in erect, peduncled racemes from 3 to 5 in a head, 
ovoid to ellipsoid, 6 to § cm. long, 5 to 6 cm. in diameter, dark- 
brown when dry, the peduncles up to 20 cm. long, thickened up- 
ward, about 1 cm. in diameter, marked with conspicuous, indurated 
crests, the remnants of fallen sheaths. Drupes numerous, oblong- 
obovoid, 1-celled, about 2 em. long, 1 cm. wide, angular, narrowed 
below, united for # of their length; the pericarp “indurated, the 
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