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pubescent or ultimately glabrous, 4 to 5 mm. long. Flowers yellow, 
axillary, solitary, ¢ about 2.3 cm. long, their pedicels up to 5 mm. 
long, scmewhat pubescent and with 1 or 2 small bracteoles at or 
near the base. Calyx triangular, 4 to 5 mm. in diameter, some- 
what ferruginous-pubescent, the angles acute. Petals much 
thickened, the outer 3 oblong- ‘lanceolate, blunt-acuminate, 2 to 
ee) Ge long, 7 to 8 mm. wide, minutely appressed- pubescent with 
shining, Posie, shert hairs, keeled inside, hollowed at the 
base; inner petals ovate, about 4 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, acute,. 
somewhat pubescent. ‘Anthers numerous, 1 to 1.2 mm. long, 
their connectives oblong-truncate. Carpels ‘about 10, inequilateral, 
oblong, glabrous, 1 to 1.2 mm. long; styles about 0.7 mm, long. 
Very young fruits globose, glabrous, about + mm. in diameter, 
their pedicels 5 mm. in length. 
ees North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, Ramos: 
ii74 (type), October, 1920, in damp forests at low altitudes; 
Khota Balud to Kibayo, trail to Mount Kinabalu, Mrs. Clemens 
9766, October, 1915. A species in vegetative characters closely 
approximating to Fissistigma elegans (WwW all.) Merr., but differing 
in numerous floral characters. 
Oxymitra Biune. 
Oxymitra grandifolia sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, ramulis et petiolis et subtus foliis ad costam 
nervosque perspicue ferrugineo-pubescentibus; foliis magnis, 
chartaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, vel oblongo-obovatis, 25-50: cm. 
longis, apice plerumque late rotundatis, basi rotundatis, distincte 
cordatis, nervis utrinque 18-25, perspicuis, supra nitidis, costa 
excepta glabris, utrinque brunneis; infructescentiis extra- 
axillaribus, 4 vel 5 cm. diametro, fructibus numerosis, ellipsoideis, 
apiculatis, ferrugineo-pubescentibus, 10-12 mm. longis. 
A scandent vine, the branchlets, infructescences and leaves. 
on the lower surface conspicuously  ferruginous-pubescent. 
Branches brown, about 5 mm. in diameter, wrinkled when dry,. 
ferruginous-pubescent or glabrous, the branchlets very densely 
pubescent. Leaves chartacecus, oblong-obovate to oblong-elliptic, 
25 to 50 cm. long, 11 to 15 em. wide, the apex usually broadly 
rounded or sometimes very broadly and obscurely blunt-acuminate, 
the base rounded and usually shallowly cordate, the upper surface 
ohyaceous, smooth, shining, glabrous or the midrib somewhat 
pubescent, the lower surface brown, rarely slightly glaucous, 
sparingly ferruginous-pubescent on the midrib, nerves, and 
reticulations; lateral nerves 18 to 25 on each side of the midrib, 
somewhat ascending, slightly curved, anastomosing, very prominent 
on une) lower surface, the primary reticulations subparallel, 
distinct; petioles stout, pubescent, 6 to 18 mm. long. Infructes- 
cences extra-axillary, their peduncles stout, ferruginous-pubescent, 
1 to 1.5 em. long, the torus slightly thicker eon the peduncle, 
R. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
