160 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
culatis (pedunculo 3 ad 4 em. longo); spathis subcylindraceis, haud 
constrictis, + ad 7 cm. longis,6 mm. diametro,deorsum plus miunsyve 
ciliatis, sursum glabris. Species S. barbatae Enel. affinis. 
Petioles, exposed portions of the short caudex, peduncles, and 
the lower surface of the leaves, especiailly along the (midrib, 
conspicuosly ferrugineously ciliate with elongated spreading hairs. 
Leaves membranaceous when dry, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 12 
to 22 cm. long, 6 to 10 cm. wide, the apex shortly acuminate, the 
base rounded and distinctly cordate, the basal lobes more or less 
overlapping, the sinus 8 to 15 mm. deep, the margins slightly 
revolute, ive upper surface olivaceous, glabrous, somewhat shining, 
the lower surface paler than the upper; the indumentum largely 
confined to the midrib, primary and secondary nerves; primary 
nerves spreading, curved, ultimately ascending, about 20 on each 
side of the midrib, not very much more prominent than the second- 
ary ones; petioles 5 to 17 cm. long, up to 5 mm. in diameter, 
sheathing in the lower 3 to 4.cm. Inflorescences few, the peduncles. 
3 to 4 cm. long. Spathes subcylindric, 4 to 7 cm. long, about 6 
mm. in diameter, the basal portion more or less ciliate, the deciduous. 
limb glabrous. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima near Sandakan, Ramos 1657, 
(type), 1753, November, 1920. On boulders in forests at low 
altitudes. A species strongly characterized by its indumentum, 
in this character approaching Schismatoglottis barbata Engl., but 
differing radically in its much larger size and im its leaves being 
conspicuously cordate at the base. 
COMMELINACEAE. 
Forrestia Lesson. 
Forrestia glabrata Hassk. in Flora 47 (1864) 630; C. B. Clarke 
in DC. Monog. Phan. 3 (1881) 238. 
British North Borneo, near Sandakan, Woed 932; Mount 
Kinabalu, Kiau, Clemens 9950, 9997: Sarawak, Native collector 
2120, 2147 Bur. Sct. Bengal, Sumatra, Java. 
LILIACEAE. 
Pleomele Salisbury. 
Pleomele borneensis sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, ramosus, glaber, ramulis 1.2 ad 1.5 
cm. diametro; foliis numerosis, confertis, lineari-lanceolatis, coria- 
ceis, 45 ad 55 cm. longis, 1.5 ad 2.5 cm. latis, acuminatis, deorsum. 
haud angustatis; paniculis terminalibus, erectis, multifloris, ramis 
usque ad 40 cm. longis; floribus fasciculatis, 2.cm. Tongis, tubo 
1 cm. longo, lobis linearis, 1 mm. latis, obtusis; fructibus subglo- 
bosis, brunneis, leviter inaequilateralibus, apiculatis, 1-, rariter 
2- locellatis, 8 ad 10 mm. diametro. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
