326 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
6 et @ globosis, axillaribus, solitariis, pedunculatis, ¢ 8 mm. 
diametro, floribus +-meris, bibracteolatis, bracteolis linearis, hir- 
sutis; fructibus juniortbus oblongo-ellipsoideis, 2 cm. longis, den- 
sissime adpresse reflexeque hirsutis. 
A scandent woody vine, the branchlets and leaves on the lower 
surface rather prominently hirsute. Branches up to 5 mm. in 
diameter, grayish, ultimately glabrous, ‘the younger branchlets 
about 1.5 mm. in diameter, with two types of indumentum: pale, 
short, numerous, spreading hairs; and scattered, longer, purplish 
ones. Leaves chartaceous, oblong to broadly oblong-oblanceolate, 
entire, the upper surface olivaceous, glabrous or nearly so or the 
midrib somewhat hirsute, the lower surface paler and conspicuous- 
ly hirsute on the midrib, nerves, and reticulations, the margins 
entire, or obscurely denticulate in younger leaves, narrowed upward 
to the somewhat acuminate apex and helow to the rather abruptly 
rounded and distinctly cordate base: lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each 
side of the midrib, very prominent on the lower surface as are the 
reticulations; petioles hirsute, 10 to 18 mm. long. Staminate in- 
tHorescences axillary, peduncled, solitary, globose, the heads about 
S mm. in diameter, their peduncles hirsute, about 10 mm. long, the 
staminate flowers numerous, crowded, 2-bracteolate, the bracteoles 
linear, 3 to 4 mm. long, densely hirsute. Flowers funnel-shaped, 
about 3 mm. long, somewhat hirsute, 4-lobed, the lobes ovate to 
elliptic-ovate, acute, about 1.3 mm. long. Stamens 4, their fila- 
ments about 2 mm. in length; anthers elliptic-oblong, 1 mm. long. 
Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary, glabrous, the young fruits 
ovoid to oblong-ellipsoid, narrowed at both ends, about 2 cm. long, 
densely hirsute with reflexed, appressed, brown, stiff hairs, the 
calyces similar to those of the staminate flowers, somewhat accres- 
cent and 5 to 6 mm. in length. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima and Sibuga, near Sandakan,,. 
Ramos 1848, 1508, 1534 (type), October, November, and Decem- 
ber, 1920. In secondary forests at low altitudes. Sarawak, Upper 
Baram, Lio-Matu, Moulton 6703-25, October, 1920. A remark- 
able species, not only on account of its vegetative characters, but 
also on account of its solitary, globose, axillary, peduncled stamin- 
ate heads, in this last character differing radically from all pre- 
viously known representatives of the genus. 
Iodes Blume. 
lodes philippinensis Merr. in Philip. Jour. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot,. 
241. 
British North Borneo, Sapang and Batu Lima, near Sandakan, 
Yates 26, Ramos 1410. In thickets and secondary forests at low 
altitudes. The material exactly matches Jodes philippinensis 
Merr. which is common in the central and southern Philippines,. 
southern Luzon to Palawan and Mindanao, in all or most islands. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
