194 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
long, 8 to 14 em. wide, the apex acute or very obscurely acuminate, 
rather minutely apiculate, somewhat narrowed below to the cuneate 
base, the upper surface olivaceous or greenish-olivaceous, glabrous, 
smooth, shming, the nerves impressed, the lower surface usually 
brownish, pubescent with scattered, short, usually ferruginous hairs :. 
lateral nerves about 20 on each side of the midrib, prominent on 
the lower surface, spreading-curved, obscurely anastomosing, the: 
reticulations rather distinct; petioles pubescent, 1 to 3 cm. in 
length. Flowers fascicled on the larger branches and on the trunk, 
few to many umbellules in a fascicle, the individual peduncles up 
to 15 mm. long, densely pubescent, the involucral bracts obovate, 
6 mm. long, truncate-rounded, densely pale-pubescent. Staminate: 
flowers 6 in each umbellule, their pedicels 3 mm. long, densely 
pubescent. Perianth-seoments 6, usually oblanceolate, 4 ce 5 mm. 
long, somewhat pubescent. Fertile stamens 12, their filaments 
slender, 6 to 7 mm. long, somewhat ciliate; anthers about 1 mm. 
long. Glands conspicuous, dark-colored, oblong-obovoid, somewhat 
stipitate, about 1 mm. long. Fruits 2 or 3 in a fascicle, rarely soli- 
tary on the smaller branches, up to 20 in a fascicle on the trunk, the 
latter fascicles up to 7 cm. in diameter. Accrescent calyx cup- 
shaped, glabrous, about 1.5 qm. diameter, shallow, truncate, brown 
when dry, obscurely 6-sulcate or rounded-angular, subsessile or very 
shortly pedicelled, the fruits ellipsoid, more or less angular to: 
suleate when dry, rounded, about 12 mm. long. 
sritish North Borneo, Sebuga and Labuk, Ramos 1894 (type), 
1591, Villamil 309, November and December, 1920, and February, 
foe” nda level forests at low altitudes. A species probably 
as closely allied to Litsea cauliflora Stapf as any other described 
form, but differing in numerous details. It is well characterized 
by its fascicled, cauline inflorescences. 
Litsea sandakanensis sp. nov. 
Arbor parva ramulis et subtus foliis dense patuleque ferrugineo- 
pubescentibus ; foliis oppositis, chartaceis, oblanceolatis vel oblongo- 
ellipticis, 22-34 cm. longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, 
basi acutis, apice acutis val acuminatis apiculatisque, supra vivid 
olivaceis, nitidis, subtus ferrugimeis, nervis utringque 12-14, 
subtus cum reticulis valde perspicuis; fructibus subsessilibus, axi- 
laribus, fasciculatis vel solitariis, globosis, glabris, 8-10 mm. 
diametro, sepalis accrescentibus in cupulo, truncato vel irregulariter 
4-lobato subdisciformi, 5 mm. diametro. 
A small tree, the branches, petioles and lower surface of the 
leaves densely nil softly ferruginous-pubescent with spreading 
eee. Leayes opposite, chartaceous, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 
22 to 34 em. long, 6 to 10 cm. wide, subequally narrow ed to the 
broadly acute base and to the acute or slightly acuminate and 
distinctly apiculate apex, the upper surface greenish- olivaceous, 
shining, glabrous except for the pubescent midrib, not foveolate, 
the lower surface ferruginous, softly pubescent; lateral nerves 12 
Jour. Straits Branch 
