320 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
Sarawak, Upper Baram, Lio-Matu, Major J. C. Moulton 6714 
(type), 6071-4, October 12 and 15, 1920. Altitude about 160 m. 
A species strongly characterized by its lanceolate, slenderly 
acuminate, few-nerved leaves, and it; lanceolate sepals. The type 
presents pistillate flowers only, the other numbers cited staminate 
flowers only, the latter for the most part being abnormal in their 
accrescent outer sepals. 
Galearia Zollinger and Montz. 
Galearia stenophylla sp. nov. § Hugalearia. 
Frutex, ramulis inflorescentiisque pubescentibus ; foliis lineari- 
lanceolatis vel lanceolatis, 10—25 em. longis, 1—2.5 em. latis, basi 
acutis, apice obscure acuminatis, nervis utrinque 10—15, distan-. 
tibus, arcuato-anastomosantibus, perspicuis: racemis terminalibus, 
3—) em. longis, fructibus 1-locellatis, leviter adpresse pubescenti- 
bus, 6—7 mm. longis, 8—10 mm. latis. 
A shrub, the branchlets rather densely pubescent with short, 
brownish hairs, the branches terete, glabrous, grayish or brownish. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 10 to 25 cm. 
long, 1 to 2.5 cm. wide, greenish-olivaceous, slightly shining, 
glabrous on both surfaces, the base acute, gradually narrowed up- 
ward to the somewhat acuminate apex; lateral nerves 10 to 15 on 
each side of the midrib, curved, arched-anastomosing, prominent 
on the lower surface, the reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 2 to 4 
mm. long. Fruiting racemes terminal, 3 to 5 cm. long, rather 
densely pubescent. Fruits dark-brown when dry, sparingly ap- 
pressed-pubescent, 6 to 7 mm. long, 8 to 10 mm. wide, 1-celled,. 
their pedicels ferruginous-pubescent, about 5 mm. long. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, Ramos 
1542, November, 1920. In forests at low altitudes. A very 
strongly marked species, readily distinguishable from all previously 
described forms by its very narrow, elongated, lanceolate leaves. 
Galearia sessiliflora sp. nov. § Hugalearia. 
Frutex, ramulis inflorescentiisque exceptis glaber; foliis char- 
tacels, oblongo- ellipticis, 18—25 cm. longis, perspicue acuminatis,. 
basi plerumque leviter asymmetricis, rotundatis vel subacutis, ner- 
vis utrinque 5—8, subtus valde perspicuis; inflorescentus @ folia 
subaequantibus, floribus sessilibus, fasciculatis; calycis lobis ovatis, 
1 mm. longis, pubescentibus ; petalis elabris, spatulatis vel oblongo- 
obovatis, eu —3 mm. longis, rotundatis, leviter cucullatis; ovario 
dense pubescente. 
A shrub about 2 m. high, glabrous except the somewhat pubes- 
cent branchlets and inflorescences, the branches terete, grayish or 
brownish, 2 to 2.56 mm. in diameter. Leaves chartaceous, oblong- 
elliptic, 18 to 25 em. long, 4 to 9 em. wide, greenish-olivaceous, 
slightly shining, the base rounded or subacute, usually somewhat 
Jour. Straits Branch 
