828 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
coriaceous, oblong-elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 20: to 35 cm. long, 9 to 
14 cm. wide, entire, brownish-olivaceous to greenish-olivaceous 
when dry, shining on both surfaces, the base broadly acute to round- 
ed, somewhat 3-nerved, the axillary glands when present not beard- 
ed, the apex broadly Came lateral nerves, including the basal 
pair, 6 to 10 on each side of the midrib, somewhat ascending, 
curved-ana:tomosing close to the margin, prominent on both sur- 
faces, the primary “reticulations rather lax, distinct, subparallel; 
petioles 1.5 to 2.5 em. long. Panicles axillary and terminal, in 
fruit 8 to 12 cm. long, somewhat pubescent. Fruits obovoid or 
pyriform, smooth, brown when dry, glabrous, about 3 em. long, the 
endocarp hard, bony, the mesocarp fibrous. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, Ramos 
1704 (type), 1438, 1622, October and November, 1920. In damp 
forests at low altitudes. A species manifestly in close alliance with 
the Phihppine Grewia stylocarpa Warb., from which it is easily 
distinguished by its much larger fruits. 
Neesia Blume. 
Neesia synandra Mast. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 382, 
Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 14 (1875) 504; Kine im Jour: 
As. Soc. 60 (1891) 56 [ Mat. Fl. Malay Penin. 1 (1891) 
165]. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, Ramos 
1540, November, 1920. The specimen is in fruit and so 13 not 
directly comparable with my material of V. synandra Mast. from 
the Malay Peninsula and Penang. The vegetative characters, how- 
ever, seem to be an exact match for Penang material, coll. Fow. 
The fruits are described as from 6 to 9 inches long and 4 to 9 
inches in diameter and further as ovoid-conie, much as in the 
Javan Neesia altissima Blume. The fruits of the present species, 
not quite mature, are ellipsoid, when fresh 30 cm. long and 18 cm. 
in diameter, when dry about 20 cm. long and 10 to 12 cm. in dia- 
meter. The leaves attain a length of 50 cm. and a breadth of 20 
cm. It may represent a distinct species, but more and complete 
material of both Neesia synandra Mast., and NV. altissima Blume 
will be necessary to determine this point. 
Boschia Korthals. 
Boschia griffithii Mast. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 14 (1875) 503, 
ba LOR COS Oa: 16, f. 40-42; King in Jour. As. Soe. 
Bengal 60. (1891) 55. [Mat. Fl. Malay. Pen. d5@l39m) 
164]. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, Ramos 
1794. In forests at low altitudes. All the known species of this 
genus are represented in the herbarium of the Bureau of Science. 
The present species was previously known from the Malay Penin- 
sula and Sumatra. 
Jcur. Straits Branch 
