338 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BORNEAN PLANTS. 
An erect shrub about 2 m. high nearly glabrous throughout, 
the branches and branchlets terete, smooth, the ultimate branchlets 
reddish-brown, 1.5 mm. in diameter or less, supplied with very few 
widely scattered, appressed, ovate scales about 0.2 mm. long. 
Leaves lanceolate, coriaceous, rigid, 4 to 9 cm. long, 1 to 1.4 em. 
wide, narrowed upward to the acuminate apex, the base acute, 
3-nerved, the upper surface olivaceous, somewhat shining, smooth, 
obscurely and very sparsely strigulcse, the lower surface paler and 
with few widely scattered, minute, appressed scales similar to those 
on the branchlets, the midrib, nerves and reticulations reddish in 
contrast with the greenish surface; petioles slender, 7 to 10 mm. 
long, with very few minute, appressed scales. Flowers terminal, 
solitary, 5-merous, their pedicels about 1 cm. long. Calyx about 
1 cm. long,subcylindric,acute at the base, about 8 mm.in diameter, 
the lobes short, broad, subobtuse, about 2 mm. in length, the 
pedicels, tube, and lobes supphed with minute, appressed, widely 
scattered, triangular- -ovate scales 0.5 mm. long or less. Petals 
oblong- due eihout 3 cm. long, 1.5 em. wide, farrowed below to 
the subacute base, the apex acute or somewhat obtuse. Stamens 
unequal, the filaments of the shorter ones 9 mm. long, their anthers 
curved and about as long as the filaments, the longer filaments 12 
mm. in length, their anthers linear-lanceolate, curved, about 1.5 
em. long, the connectives produced about 14 cm., 2 appendiculate, 
the appendages stout, 2 mm. long. Top of the ovary produced, 
about 2 mm. long around the base of the style and conspicuously 
ciliate. 
British North Borneo, Sandakan, Ramos 1132, September, 
1920. In thickets near the seashore. A species perhaps most 
closely allied to Melastoma nitidum Zoll.; differing, however, in 
numerous characters. In the genus it is well characterized by 
being nearly smooth and elabrous, the scales on the branchlets, 
petioles, pedicels, calyces, and leaves being inconspicuous, minute, 
and widely scattered, the upper surface of the leaves being entirely 
glabrous. 
Dalenia \orthals. 
Dalenia pubescens sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, ramulis et inflorescentis et subtus folus 
perspicue ferrugineo- vel cupreo-stellato-pubescentibus; folliis 
orbiculari-ellipticis vel ellipticis, 20—27 em. longis, coriaceis, basi 
late rotundatis, 7-nerviis, apice truncato-rotundatis vel acutis, 
perspicue abrupteque apiculato-acuminatis, supra glabris, nitidis, 
subtus ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; paniculis usque ad 1m. longis; 
floribus numerosis; alabastro cylindrico, 1.5 cm. longo; calves 
calyptraco, calyptra acuta, 5 mm. longa; petalis 4, ovatis, acuminatis, 
5 mm. longis; staminibus fertilibus 4, antheris oblongo-lanceolatis, 
obtusis, appendicibus ovatis, membranaceis, 0.5 mm. longis, 
sterilibus 4, minoribus, appendicibus anterioribus lineari-lanceo- 
latis, lateralibus 2—3 mm. longis, interioribus 5—6 mm. longis. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
