162 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
25 in each infructescence. Fruits globose, shining when dry, about 
1 cm. in diameter, 12 to 25 in each umbel, their pedicels slender, 
1.5 to-1.8 em. in length. 
British North Borneo, Sebuga near Sandakan, Ramos 1850, 
November, 1920. On damp forested slopes at low altitudes ; locally 
known to the Malays as Aababu. A remarkably distinct species 
on account of its very large, broadly ovate, cordate leaves which are 
rather densely pubescent on the lower surface ; and its ample infruct- 
escences which are nearly as long as the leaves. It is allied to 
Smilax borneensis C. DC., but differs radically in its vegetative 
characters and in the indumentum on the lower surface of the leaves 
being of simple not stellate hairs. 
Smilax woodii sp. noy. § Coianthus. 
Species S. hypoglaucae affinis; ramis ramulisque laevibus, in- 
ermibus, teretibus, tenuibus; foliis coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, lanceo- 
latis vel elliptico-lanceolatis, 6 ad 9 cm. longis, acuminatis, basi 
acutis vel subrotundatis, 3- vel 5-nerviis, subtus glaucis; pedun- 
culis tenuibus, quam petiolo longioribus : floribus umbellatis : 
sepalis glaucescentibus, 2 mm. longis; pedicellis 3 vel 5 mm. longis. 
A scandent, glabrots, unarmed, somewhat woody vine, the 
branches and branchlets slender, brow n, terete. Leaves coriaceous 
te subcoriaceous, lanceolate to elliptic- lanceolate, 6 to 9 cm. long, 
2 to 3.5 em. wide, acuminate, base acute to subrounded, 3- or 5- 
nerved, nerves slender, reticulations very obscure, the upper surface 
brownish, shining, the lower very glaucous; petioles 5 to 10 mm. 
long, those of the older leaves sometimes tendriliferous. Umbels 
axillary, solitary, each about 15-flowered, the peduncles up to 10 
mm. long, the pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long. Male flowers somewhat 
glaucous, the sepals ovate, 2 mm, long, 1.5 mm. wide; petals oblong, 
obtuse, 1.5 mm. long, 0.6 mm. wide; stamens 6. 
British North Borneo, Sandakan, Wood 1097 (type), October 
28, 1920, on slopes, altitude about 18m. Sarawak, Vative Collector 
&§35 Bur. Sci. August, 1912. A species manifestly closely allied 
to Smilax hypoglauca Benth., and S. peguana A. DC., but distinct 
from both. 
AMARYLLIDACEAE. 
Curculigo Gaertner. 
Curculigo borneensis sp. nov. 
Foliis chartaceis, anguste lanceolatis, 35 ad 50 em. longis, 5 ad 
6 cm. latis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi cuneatis, apice 
tenuiter filiformibus, acuminatis, supra glabris, subtus parcissime 
pubescentibus, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6; petiolo 20 ad 25 em, longo: 
inflorescentiis erectis, brevissime ncaa densis, subglobosis 
vel ovoideis, circiter + em. diametro, bracteis exterioribus ovatis 
oblongo-ovatis ; 2 vel 3 em, longis, tenuiter acuminatis, junioribus 
plus minusve ciliatis: petalis anguste oblongis, 10 mm. longis, tubo. 
vour. Straits Branch 
