NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 195 
to 14 on each side of the midrib, slightly impressed on the upper 
surface, very prominent on the lower surface, curved-ascending, 
strongly curved near the margin, scarcely anastomosing, the second- 
ary nerves and reticulations lax, very prominent on the lower 
surface; petioles densely ferruginous or brown-pubescent, rather 
stout, 1 to 1.4 cm. long. Fruits axillary, subsessile, fascicled, or 
solitary, globose, glabrous, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter, dark-brown 
when dry, smooth, the accrescent calyx pubescent, truncate or 
irregularly 4-lobed, about 5 mm. in diameter, almost disk-hke. 
British North Borneo, near Sandakan, Ramos 1507, October, 
1920. In forests at low altitudes. <A species manifestly belong- 
ing in the group Litsea sessiliflora Hook. f., but the indumen- 
tum on the lower surface of the leaves much denser, the nerves only. 
slightly impressed on the upper surface, and the reticulations not 
at all impressed and scarcely evident on the upper surface. 
Litsea megalophylla sp. noy. 
Arbor ecirciter 12 m. alta, ramis incrassatis, 1-2 cm. dia- 
metro, cicatricibus magnis instructis, rugosis, ramulis dense ferru- 
gineo-pubescentibus; foliis coriaceis, obovatis vel obiongo-obovatis, 
28-50 cm. longis, rotundatis, basi cuneatis, supra laevibus, pallide 
viridibus, nitidtis, subtus brunneis, glabris, nervis utrinque circiter 
25, cum. retidulis valde perspicuis ; infructescentiis racemosis, 
ex axillis defoliatis, 4-5 cm. longis, ferrugineo- pubescentibus ; 
sepalis in cupulo valde accrescentibus paucis, ‘sublignosis, TUQOSIS, 
brunneis, glabris, cupulo 3 cm. longo, 2-2.5 em. diametro, truncato, 
<leorsum angustato crasse stipitato; fructibus ellipsoideis, leviter 
pubescentibus, 3.5 ad 4 cm. longis. 
A tree up to 12 m. high, the branches ‘glabrous, thickened, 
rugose, 1 to 2 cm. in diameter, brownish, the petiolar scars large 
and conspicuous, the ultimate branchlets 5 to 8 mm. in diameter, 
<lensely ferruginous-pubescent, more or less angular. Leaves coria- 
ceous, obovate to oblong-obovate, 28 to 50 em. long, 12 to 23 cm. 
wide, alternate, the apex broadly rounded, base cuneate, the upper 
surface smooth, pale-greenish when dry, the lower surface brown ; 
lateral nerves about 25 on each side of the midrib, somewhat spread- 
ing, very prominent on the lower surface, curved-anastomosing 
close to the margin, the primary reticulations subparallel, very 
distinct; petioles stout, 2 to 3 em. long, somewhat pubescent, 
ultimately glabrous. Fruits racemosely arranged on rather stout, 
ferruginous- ~ pubescent rachises from the axils of fallen leaves or 
from “the branches below the leaves, the rachises 4 to 5 cm. in 
length. Calyx accrescent, almost woody, cup-shaped, rugose, brown 
when dry, glabrous or nearly so, 2 to 2.5 cm, in diameter, 3 em, in 
length, abruptly contracted into a stout pseudostalk 1 to 1.5 em. 
in length. Fruits ellipsoid, brown when dry, sparingly pubescent, 
3.5. to 4 em, in length. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, Wood 953 
(type), Ramos 1460, October, 1920. In damp forests at low alti_ 
R. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
