178 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
about 5 flowers. Flowers yellow, about 2.5 to 3 cm. long, the 
subtending bracteoles oblong to oblong-ovate, deciduous, about 
2.5 mm. long, the pedicels nearly glabrous, thickened upward, 
about 1 cm. long. Sepals coriaceous, ovate, narrowed upward 
to the conspicuously acuminate apex, very sparingly appressed- 
pubescent of nearly glabrous, about 6 mm. long, 5 mm. wide. 
Petals subequal, the concave bases densely appressed-pubescent 
on both surfaces, about 4 mm. long and wide, then abruptly 
contracted and linear, the linear part often curv ed, sparingly 
appressed-pubescent, thickened, obtuse, about 1 mm. wide, 2.5 cm. 
long. Anthers numerous, 1.5 to 1.8 mm. long, narrowed below, 
the connectives thickened, truncate and minutely pubescent at 
the apex. Carpels 3, ovoid, glabrous; styles about 1 mm. long, 
the stigmas expanded, disciform, about 1 mm. in diameter; disk 
densely ferruginous-pubescent. Fruits ellipsoid, dark-brown 
smooth, glabrous, sessile, about 1 cm. long; seeds 2, collateral. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima and Sibuga, near Sandakan, 
Ramos 1178 (type), 1875, October and December, 1920. In damp 
forests at low altitudes. A species belonging in the group with 
Artabotrys suaveolens Blume, and apparently most closely allied 
to A. maingayt Hook. f. and Th. and A. gracilis King, differing 
from all of these in numerous details in floral structure. 
Fissistigma Griffith. 
Fissistigma clementis sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens. partibus junioribus foliisque subtus breviter 
adpresse ferrugineo-pubescentibus; ramis glabris; folis oblongo- 
ellipticis, chartaceis, 4-8 cm. longis, acutis vel acuminatis, basi 
rotundatis vel obtusis, supra olivaceis, glabris, nitidis, subtus, 
brunneis et minute adpresseque ferrugineo-pubescentibus; nervis 
lateralibus . utrinque 8-10, sanmilhne floribus axillaribus, 
sohtariis, circiter 2.3 cm. longis; calyce triangulari, 4 vel 5 mm. 
diametro; petalis crassissimis, exterioribus oblongo-lanceolatis, 
obtuse acuminatis, 8-10 mim. latis, extus minute aapresseque 
pubescentibus, interioribus ovatis, 4 mm. longis, 3.5 mm. latis, 
acutis; carpellis plusminusve 10, glabris. | 
A scandent shrub, the younger parts, lower surface of the 
leaves, and flowers more or less ferruginous-pubescent. Branches 
and branchlets terete, slender, dark-brown or nearly black when 
dry, the former glabrous the latter more or less appressed- 
pubescent with shining ferruginous hairs, the very tips of the 
branchlets densely ferruginous- or cupreous-pubescent. Leaves 
oblong-elliptic, chartaceous, 4 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, the 
apex acute or acuminate, the base rounded or broadly acute, the 
upper surface olivaceous, glabrous, the lower surface brownish and 
minutely appressed-ferruginous-pubescent, the hairs more or less 
shining; lateral nerves 8 5 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, 
obscurely anastomosing, not prominent; petioles somewhat 
Jour. Straits Branch 
