184 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima and Sibuga, near Sandakan, 
Ramos 1259, 1623 (type), 1654, 1879, October, November, and 
December, 1920. In thickets and in forests along small streams 
at low altitudes, locally known as babancaon. A remarkable 
species on account of the small size of the plant; its elongated 
leaves which in color and texture resemble those of Goniothalamus 
macrophyllus Hook. f. and Th., its usually solitary and chiefly 
cauline flowers; its numerous ovules; and its greatly elongated, 
cylindric, 4- to 9-seeded fruits. In its numerous ovules it tran- 
scends the limits of the genus Gomothalamus, but unmistakably 
belongs in this group. 
Polyalthia Blume. 
Polyalthia tenuipes sp. Nov. 
Frutex 3 ad 4 m. altus, ramulis leviter pubescentibus; foliis 
breviter petiolatis, oblongo-ellipticis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, 
glabris, 18-30 cm. longis, 5-10 cm. latis, acuminatis, basi 
obtusis vel subrotundatis, symmetricis, leviter auriculato-cordatis, 
supra castaneis vel brunneo-olivaceis, nitidis, subtus pallidioribus 
vel brunneis, nervis utringue 15-17, subtus valde perspicuis, 
arcuato-anastomosantibus, nervis secundariis et reticulis distinctis ; 
infructescentis axillaribus, longissime pedunculatis, pedunculo 10: 
-20 cm. longo; fructibus ellipsoideis, 1 cm. longis, perspicue 
apiculatis, parcissime hirsutis, castaneis vel brunneis, pedicellis 
1.5-2 em. longis. 
A shrub 3 to 4 m. high, the young branchlets slightly 
pubescent, the older branches brown or dark-brown when dry. 
Leaves shortly petioled, oblong-elliptic, 18 to 30 cm. long, 4.5 to 
11 cm. wide, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous, the apex short- 
ly acuminate, the base obtuse or scmewhat rounded, symmetrical, 
shghtly auriculate-cordate, the upper surface castaneous or 
brownish-olivaceons, smooth, shining, the lower surface paler, 
usually brownish; lateral nerves 15 to 17 on each side of the 
midrib, very prominent on the lower surface, arched-anastomosing, 
the reticulations lax, distinct; petioles stout, 5 mim. long or less. 
Flowers unknown. Fruiting peduncles axillary, slender, 10 to 20: 
cm. long, glabrous o r slightly pubescent, the torus subglobose, up 
to 7 mm. in diameter, more or less ferruginous- hirsute. Fruits 
usually numerous, up to 30 on each peduncle, ellipsoid, about 1 cm. 
long, red when fresh, dark-brown when dry, very shghtly appressed- 
hirsute, distinctly apiculate, their pedicels 1.5 to 2 cm. lone, 
sparingly appressed-pubescent. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, amos 
1501 (type), 1823, 1285, 1931, October and November 1920; Wood 
962, October, 1920. In damp forests at low altitudes. <A species 
apparently most closely allied to Polyalthia longipes (Miq.) Koord. 
and Val. of Java, but differing from this and from its ally, 
Jour. Straits Branch 
