196 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
tudes. A species strongly characterized by its unusually large, 
obovate to oblong-obovate, coriaceous, rounded, very prominently 
nerved and reticulate leaves" by its thickened branches : and by its. 
racemose infructescences which are borne on the branches below 
the leaves. The accrescent calyces and fruits are unusually large. 
It probably belongs in the group with Litsea megacarpa Gamble, of 
the Malay Peninsula, but is radically different from that species. 
Litsea ellipticibacca sp. noy. 
Arbor parva, ramulis leviter brunneo-pubescentibus exceptis 
glabra, ramis teretibus, laevibus, ramulis 2 mm. diametro; foliis. 
alternis, corlacels, anguste oblongis, 15-20 em. longis, utrinque 
subaequaliter angustatis, basi cuneatis, apice acutis, nervis utrin- 
que 14-20, subtus cum reticulis subconfertis distinctis; fructi- 
bus axillaribus, fasciculatis, sepalis accrescentibus in cupulo, in- 
crassato truncato circiter 12 mm. diametro, breviter pedicellato,,. 
fructibus ellipsoideis, apiculatis, circiter 1.5 cm. longis. 
A small tree, the very young branchlets sparingly appressed 
brown-pubescent, otherwise glabrous (flowers unknown). Branches. 
terete, smooth, dark-brown, the ultimate branchlets about 2 mm. 
in diameter. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, narrowly oblong, 15 to: 
20 em. long, 3.5 to 5 cm. wide, subequally narrowed to the acute 
apex and to the cuneate base, the upper surface smooth, somewhat 
shining, brownish or olivaceous when dry, the lower surface paler : 
lateral nerves 14 to 20 on each side of the midrib, spreading, some-- 
what curved, distinct on the lower surface as are the rather close 
reticulations ; petioles 1 to 1.8 cm. long, dark-brown or nearly black 
when dry. Fruits in axillary fascicles and in the axils of fallen 
leaves, usually about 3 in a fascicle, the accrescent calyces shallow-- 
ly cup-shaped, thickened, brown, truncate, about 12 mm. in dia- 
meter, the pedicels stout, 3 to + mm. in length. Fruits ellipsoid. 
or shghtly narrowed upward, apiculate, dark-brown or olivaceous 
when dry, shining, rather coarsely reticulate-rugose, about 1.5 cm. 
long. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima near Sandakan, Ramos 1397 
(type), 1266, October, 1920. In damp forests along small streams. 
at low altitudes. This species manifestly belongs in the group. 
with Litsea singaporensis Gamble and L. perakensis Gamble, from. 
both of which it is distinguished by its ellipsoid, not globose, fruits, 
Litsea grandis (Wall.) Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 5 (1886) 162; 
Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 75* (1912) 136. 
Tetranthera grandis Wall. Cat. (1830) no. 2552, nomen nudum > 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 157 (1864) 188. 
Sarawak, Siol, Native collector 2404 Bur. Sci. February-June,. 
1914. Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java. 
Jour. Straits Branch. 
