188 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
Woodiella sympetala sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 5 m. alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra, ramis 
teretibus, ramulis tenuibus; foliis oblongo-ellipticis vel oblongo- 
lanceolatis, chartaceis, 20-35 cm. longis, acuminatis, basi acutis 
vel rotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, subtus perspicuis 
curvatis, obscure anatomosantibus; floribus fasciculatis, 3.5- 
4 cm. longis, leviter pubescentibus, petalis deorsum omnino 
connatis ; fasciculis caulinis et in ramis vetustioribus, paucifloris. 
A tree about 5 m. high, glabrous except the inflorescences, 
-branches and branchlets terete, grayish, the ultimate branchlets 
about 1.5 mm. in diameter. Leaves oblong-elliptic to oblong- 
lanceolate, chartaceous, 20 to 35 cm. long, 6 to 13 cm. wide, rather 
pale when dry, shining, the apex rather conspicuously acuminate, 
base acute to rounded; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the 
midrib, usually shghtly impressed on the upper surface, very 
prominent on the lower surface, somewhat ascending, slightly 
curved, obscurely anastomosing, the primary reticulations slender, 
rather lax, subparallel; petioles 5 to 10 mm. long. Flowers 
fascicled on the branches below the leaves and on nodules on the 
trunk, yellowish-white, pedicelled, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, sparingly 
pubescent, their pedicels 2.5 to 3 cm. long, somewhat pubescent 
and with a small bracteole below the middle. Calyx about 1.5 em. 
in diameter, somewhat pubescent, 3-lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, 
obtuse or acute, valvate, 8 to 9 mm. wide. Petals 6, valvate in two 
series, coriaceous, black when dry, wholly united for the lower 
1 cm. the free portions of the outer ones oblong-elliptic to elliptic 
obtuse, somewhat narrowed below, 3 cm. long, 12 mm. wide, the 
inner three narrowly oblanceolate, as long as the outer ones, but 
about one-half as wide, all thickly coriaceous, the tubular lower 
part of the corolla cylindric or shghtly contracted at the throat, 
the lobes ascending or somewhat spreading. Stamens numerous, 
3 mm. long, the connectives truncate, overlapping, only slightly 
produced. Carpels numerous, oblong, appressed-pubescent, 1.8 
to 2 mm. long with 1 basal ovule; stigma orbicular, glabrous, 
compressed, sessile, about 0.8 mm. in diameter. Fruits oblong- 
ovoid, about 4 cm. long, dark-brown when dry, somewhat pubescent, 
subequally narrowed to the acute base and the obtuse apex, their 
pedicels pubescent, about 8 mm. long,the torus somewhat thick- 
ened, 1 cm. in diameter, ferruginous-pubescent; seed rather large 
(immature). 
British North Borneo, Sibuga and Kalabakan, near Sandakan, 
Ramos 1562 (type), 1808, V ical 262, September and Novemiens 
1916 and 1920. In damp forests, sometimes along smal] streams 
at low altitudes. This proposed new genus is dedicated to Mr. 
D. D. Wood, Conservator of Forests, British North Borneo. 
Through its petals being entirely united for the lower 1 cm. and 
otherwise strictly valv ate, this proposed new genus approximates 
to Papualthia, a genus well represented in the Philippines and in 
New Guinea; it differs from Papualihia in its stnietly 1-ovulate 
Jour. Straits Branch 
