NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 201 
wide, the apex broadly rounded, the stigmatic portion broadly acute 
and laterally situated at about the upper two-thirds, gradually nar- 
rowed to the acute or somewhat obtuse base, inflated, about 2 cm. 
thick, outside very densely pubescent with dark reddish-brown hairs, 
inside simply pubescent with pale-brownish hairs. Seeds oblong, 
shining, the aril fleshy, yellowish-brown when dry, about 7 mm. 
long. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima near Sandakan, Ramos 1181, 
October, 1920. In damp forests and in-clearings at low altitudes. 
A species well characterized by its very prominently nerved leaflets, 
the nerves being tmpressed on the upper surface and very prominent 
on the lower surface. The dark-brown indumentum of the branches, 
inflorescences, fruits, petioles and on the midrib and nerves on the 
lower surface of the leaflets, composed of short simple hairs, is 
characeristic. It apparently belongs in the group with Connarus 
ferrugineus Jack. 
Cnestis Jussieu. 
Cnestis palala (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Thysanus palala “our. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 284, excl. syn. 
Rumph. 
Thysanus cochinchinensis DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 91. 
Cnestis diffusa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 586. 
Cnestis ramiflora Griff. Not. 4 (1854) 482. 
British North Borneo, Kudat, Castro 989, November, 1920, on 
slopes at low altitudes. Burma, Siam, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula, 
Sumatra, and the Philippines. The genus is new to Borneo. 
Loureiro’s description clearly applies to this species and his specific 
name should be adopted. 
R. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
