NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 33T 
Myrtus Linnaeus. 
Myrtus moultonii sp. nov. 
Frutex, ramulis floribusque exceptis glaber; ramulis minute 
glanduloso- verruculosis : folis numerosis, alternis, oppositis vel 
quaternis, crassissime coriaceis, ellipticis, utringue rotundatis, 40) 
mm. longis, margine revolutis, nervis obsoletis, subtus glanduloso- 
punctatis; floribus axillaribus terminalibusque, solitariis vel 
confertis; calycibus cimereo-pubescentibus, lobis 4, ovatis, 1.5 mm. 
longis. acutis ; petalis orbiculeri-ovatis, stipitatis : staminibus 
circiter 30, 5— “6 mm. longis. 
A shrub, the branchlets, pedicels, and calyces somewhat 
cinereous-pubescent, the branches stiff, elongated, covered with 
somewhat shaggy, brownish or grayish bark, the younger ones 
somewhat glandular -verruculose. Leaves very numerous, alternate, 
opposite, or sometimes in verticils of 4, thickly coriaceous, elliptic, 
4 to 6 mm. long, 2.5 to 4 mm. wide, rounded at both ends, the 
margins revolute, the upper surface dark-olivaceous, smooth, shin- 
ing, the lower surface paler, prominently glandular-punctate, the 
midrib impressed on the upper surface, usually prominent on the 
lower surface, the lateral nerves and reticulations obsolete; petioles. 
about 1 mm. long. Flowers in the upper axils and crowded at the 
tips of the branchlets, their pedicels 1 to 2 mm. long; bracteoles 2, 
subtending the calyx, narrowly oblong, glandular-punctate, shghtly 
pubescent, up to 1.5 mm. long. Calyx tube about 2 mm. long, 
pubescent, rugose when dry, narrowed below, the lobes 4, ovate, 
subcoriaceous, glandular- punctate, subacute, about ILd) waren. long. 
Petals suborbicular-ovate, membranaceous, reticulate and elandular- 
punctate, the hmb about 2.5 mm. long, the claw 1 mm. in length. 
Stamens about 30 in one row, the filaments slender, 5 to 6 mm. 
long, bent inward in bud. Ovary 3-celled; ovules numerous. 
Sarawak, ane Baram, Gunong Temabok, Major J.C. Moulton 
Gig al November 2 2, 1920, altitude about 2100 m. The third species 
of the genus to feroind in Borneo; among the species familar 
to me most closely allied to Myrtus rufopunctata Panch. of New 
Caledonia. 
MELASTOMATACEAE. 
Melastoma Linnacus. 
Melastoma laevifolium sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, circitcr 2 m. altus, obscure e{ parcissiine 
strigillosus; ramis ramulisque tenuibus, teretibus, ramis glabris, 
ramulis rubro-hr unneis, paleis adpressis minutis sparsis obscuris 
instructis vel sublaevibus: folis lanceolatis, coriaceis, rigidis, 4—9 
em. longis, acuminatis, basi acutis, 3-nerviis, supra olivaceis, 
laevibus, parcissime strigillosis, subtus viridibus, sublaevibus, 
paleis minutis paucis instructis; floribus terminalibus, solitariis, 
d-meris, calyci obscure parceque paleaceo, paleis ovatis acutis 
adpressis vix 0.5 mm. longis instructo, lobis latis, brevibus, circiter 
2 mm. longis; antherarum majorum connectivo basi longe producto. 
Re OOC ING. 18601922. 
