NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 331 
A shrub or small tree glabrous except the sparingly pubes- 
cent pedicels and flowers, the ultimate branchlets 6 to 8 mm. in 
diameter, gray or dark-brown and with few appressed, lanceolate, 
acuminate scales 1.5 to2mm.in length. Leaves chartaceous oblong- 
elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate, 45 to 55 em. long, 15 to 20 cm. 
wide, the upper surface ereenish-olivaceous, somewhat shining, the 
lower paler, apex acute or shortly acuminate, narrowed below iG the 
acute es the margins distantly but rather conspicuously denti- 
culate or sometimes crenate, the slightly projecting teeth being 
formed by the exeurrent nervules; lateral nerves 15 to 19 on each 
side of the midrib, prominent on both surfaces, especially so beneath, 
and on the lower surface with occasional, widely scattered, appressed, 
linear-lanceolate scales, arched-anastomosing close to the margin, 
the primary reticulations lax; petioles often rather stout, about 3 
em. long. Flowers chiefly in large, very dense fascicles on the 
trunk amid larger branches below the leaves, the pedicels often very 
numerous, up ‘to 100 or more in a fascicle, sometimes few and but 
8 or 10 or even fewer in a fascicle, the pedicels slender, sparingly 
pubescent, up to 1.5 cm. long. Flowers about 1.4 cm. in diameter, 
the sepals elliptic, obtuse or rounded, about 4.5 mm. long, sparingly 
pubescent externally. Corolla lobes 5 to 6 mm. long, 2.5 to 4 mm. 
wide, the apex somewhat inequilateral. Stamens about 20, the 
filaments and anthers 2 mm. in length. Ovary ovoid, slightly 
pubescent; styles 3, free, 3.5 mm. long. Fruit globose, glabrous 
about 8 mm. in diameter. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima and Sibuga, near Sandakan, 
Ramos 1245 (type), 1829, Agama 1045, November and December, 
£920, On ites forested slopes at low altitudes. A species well 
characterized by being nearly glabrous throughout; by its very 
large, smooth, glabrous leaves; and by its densely fascicled flowers, 
the flowers heing for the most part borne on the trunk and larger 
branches, many “fascicles being from 3 to 5 cm. in diameter ame) 
often presenting 100 or more pedicels. 
THEACEAE. 
' Gordonia [llis. 
Gordonia grandiflora sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 12 m. alta; foliis brevipetiolatis, coriaceis, ob- 
longo-ellipticis. usque ad 18 cm. longis, breviter obtuseque acumi- 
natis, basi rotundatis vel leviter cordatis, margine crenulatis; 
floribus permagnis, 10 ad 11 cm. diametro; capsulis junioribus 5 
ad 6 cm. longis, apiculato-acumuinatis. 
A tree about 12 m. high, the stout branchlets and the iower 
surfaces of the leaves somewhat pubescent. Leaves subsessile, 
coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, 14 to 18 cm. long, 6 to 8 cm. wide, 
shining, margins “crenulate, apex very broadly and obtusely acu- 
minate, base somewhat narrowed and abruptly rounded or shghtly 
1h, Bs OCH INGE CO) Uz. 
