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A branched shrub or small tree entirely glabrous, the ultimate 
branches 12 to 15 mm. in diameter. Leaves humerous, crowded 
at the tips of the branchlets, lhnear-lanceolate, coriaceous, 45 to 55 
em.. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, rather slenderly acuminate, not or 
but slightly narrowed below, the base sheathing. Panicles terminal, 
erect, 50 to 60 em. long, the branches ascending, brownish or 
olivaceous when dry, up to 40 cm. long, the lower ones subtended 
by reduced leaves, the upper ones by oblone-lanceolate bracts 1.5 
to 2 cm. in length, or the uppermost bracts less than 1 cm. in 
length. Flowers 2 cm. long, in fascicles of 3 to 5 along the primary 
branches, their pedicels up to 6 pa long, the subtending bracts 
broadly ovate to oblong, obtuse, 2 to 4 mm. long, the bracteoles 
smaller. Perianth-tube 1 cm. long, the linear lobes 1 mm. wide, 
obtuse. Anthers 2 mm. long. Ovary oblong, glabrous, 2 mm. 
Jong. Fruits dark-brown, fleshy, subglobose, somewhat inequila- 
teral, apiculate by the persistent styles, when dry 8 to 10 mm. in 
diameter, 1-, rarely 2: -celled. 
British North Borneo, near Sandakan, Ramos 1414 (type), 
Wood 745, October and February, 1920, Castillo 608, Bob euaee 
1918. In forests and along small streams at low altitudes. A 
species belonging in the group with Pleomele angustifolia 
N. E. Br., but with much larger leaves than that species. 
Smilax Tournefort. 
Smilax gigantea sp. nov. § Husmalav. 
Trutex scandens, ramis teretibus, striatis, 8 ad 10 mm. 
diametro, aculeatis; foliis late ovatis, chartaceis, circiter 55 cm. 
longis latisque, breviter abrupteque acuminatis, basi latissime 
rot undatis, perspicue cordatis, Y-nerviis, supra glabris, subtus 
pubescentibus; infructescentiis circiter 30 em. longis, umbellulis 
numerosis, 5 vel 6 cm. diametro, longe pedunculatis, fasciculatis, 
rhachibus compressis, circiter 20 cm. longis; fructibus globosis, 
tenuiter pedicellatis, circiter 1 crn. diametro. 
A large, coarse, woody vine, the inflorescence-bearing branches 
terete, brown, striate, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter, armed with scattered, 
very stout, narrowly pyramidal spines about 2 mm. in length. 
Leaves broadly ovate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, about 35 em. 
long and wide, the apex very shortly and abruptly acuminate, the 
pase broadly rounded and deeply cordate, the upper surface smooth, 
glabrous, shining, brownish-olivaceous, the lower surface brownish, 
rather softly and densely pubescent, ‘the indumentum short, not 
at all stellate: petioles stout, about 7 cm. long, the sheathing basal 
portion about 3 cm. in length; ; nerves about 9, all basal, Pee nmiment, 
the reticulations rather lax. Infructescences about 30 em. long, 
the umbels racemosely disposed, from3 to 6 in the axil of each bract, 
their peduncles 7 to 10 cm. long, the rachis usually about 20 em. 
in length, 4 to 6 mm. wide, strongly flattened, the umbels up to 
R. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
