168 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
Mig. as to any other described form, but easily distinguished by its 
sessile or subsessile leaves. 
PROTEACEAE. 
Alelicia Loureiro. 
Helicia excelsa Blume in Ann. Sci. Nat. IT 1 (1834) 219. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, Ramos 
1653. In damp forests along small streams at low altitudes. 
Chittagong, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and Sumatra. 
LORANTHACEAE. 
Viscum [ainnaeus. 
Viscum angulatum Heyne ex DC. Prodr, 4 (1830) 283. 
British North Borneo, Sandakan, Ramos 1228: Sarawak, near 
Kuching, Natiwe collector 161 (Bur. Sci.), March, 1911. India 
to southern China, through Malaya to tropical Australia. 
OLACACEAE. 
Fissipetalum genus novum. 
Flores reguilarey, hermaphroditi. ‘Calyx 5-partitus, jsepalis 
imbricatis. Petala 5, infra coalita, valvata, apice lobata, lobis 
binis, subdivaricatis, in alabastro inflexis. Stamina 5, petalis al- 
terna, filamentis brevibus, glabris, corollae tubo adnatis; antherae 
erectae, oblongo-ovatae, 2-loculares, connectivo incrassato, minute 
apiculato. Discus O vel obscurus. Ovarium liberum, globosum, 1- 
loculare; stylus O; stigma conico-capitatum, suleatum; ovula 3 vel 
4. erecta. Fructus parvus, 1-locularis, 1-spermus.—-Frutex erectus, 
subglaber, foliis alternis, integris, flombus axillaribus, breviter 
pedicellatis, solitarus vel depauperato-fasciculatis. 
Fissipetalum borneense sp. noy. 
Frutex subglaber 2 vel 3 m. altus, ramis ramulisque teretibus, 
glabris, vel ramulis obscure pubescentibus; foliis oblongis vel ob- 
longo-ellipticis, chartaceis vel swbcoriaceis, 12 ad 18 cm. longis, in 
siccitate brunneo-olivaceis, minutissime verruculozis, nitidis, utrin- 
que subaequalter angustatis, basi acutis, apice breviter obtuseque 
acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, distinctis, reticulis obsoletis 
vel subobsoletis; floribus circiter 7 mm. longis, sepalis pubescenti- 
bus, orbicularibus, petalis extus pubescentibus in dimidio parte, 
inferiore, lobis glabris; fructibus oblongo-ellipsoideis, glabris, 8 ad 
J mm. longis. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
