NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. rom 
A tree about 8 m. high, glabrous except the inflorescences which 
are more or less ferruginous-pubescent. Branches brown, terete, 
somewhat wrinkled when dry,.the bark shghtly or not at all fissured, 
the ultimate branchlets about 2 mm. in diameter, usually slightly 
verruculose. Leaves chartaceous or subcoriaceous, elliptic to oblong- 
elliptic, 18 to 30 cm. long, 7 to 12 cm. wide, the apex rounded, 
obtuse or sometimes obscurely acuminate, the base usually rounded, 
the upper surface olivaceous, strongly shining, the lower surface 
brownish, sometimes slightly glaucous; lateral nerves 14 to 20 
on each side of the midrib, very prominent on the lower surface, 
somewhat spreading, curved, obscurely anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions subparallel, distinct on both surfaces, petioles 2 to 3 cm. long. 
Pistillate flowers fascicled, axillary, their pedicels up to 10 mm. 
long; perianth 7 to 8mm. long, the buds oblong, cylindric, the lobes 
ovate to oblong-ovate, rounded or subacute, glabrous, 4.5 to 5 mm. 
long, coriaceous, united below into a sparingly ferruginous-pubes- 
cent, 2 to 3 mm. long tube; ovary ovoid, pubescent, the style stout, 
glabrous, 1.5 mm. long. Staminate flowers 8 to 9 mm. in diameter, 
the lobes broadly ovate, concave, rounded or obtuse, glabrous or 
obscurely pubescent, the buds depressed-globose, the pedicels 5 to 
6 mm. long, somewhat pubescent; staminal disk shortly stipitate, 
the disk distinctly triangular, about 2 mm. in diameter, the anthers 
6, in pairs at the angles of the disk. Fruits ellipsoid, brown when 
dry, 3 to 4 em. long, minutely ferrugimous-pubescent or ultimately 
glabrous, their pedicels stout, 1 to 2 cm. long. Aril lacerate only 
at the apex. ) 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima and Sebuga, near Sandakan, 
Ramos. 1278, 1530 (type), 1664, 1729, 1902, October, November, 
and December, 1920. Along small streams in dainp forests at low 
altitudes. A species apparently most closely allied to Anema 
korthalsu Warb., but its ultimate branchlets entirely glabrous, the 
leaves relatively much wider and with fewer nerves, the reticulations 
distinct on both surfaces, the anthers 6 only and borne on the 
angles of the distinctly triangular staminal disk. It is one of the 
few known species with relatively large staminate flowers. 
LAURACEAE. 
Actinodaphne Nees. 
Actinedaphnre diversifolia sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramis glabris, laevibus, ramulis dense ferrugineo- 
pubescentibus; foliis verticillatis, 10-30 cm. longis, utrinque 
subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis vel cuneatis, apice tenuiter 
atro-brunneis, ferrugineo-villosis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, 
subtus valde perspicuis, reticulis primaris subparallelis, dis- 
tinctis; umbellulis fasciculatis axillaribus extra-axillaribusque : 
bracteis orbiculari-ovatis, rotundatis, 2 mm. longis, deciduis, 
sessilibus vel subsessilibus, paucifloris: perianthii segmentis dense 
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