SPECIES OF EUGENIA, SCHEFFLEBA. AXD SAUKAUIA. 27 



solete; petioles 5 to S mm. long. Cymes depauperate, few- 

 flowered, axillary and terminal, solitary or few in a fascicle, 

 5 mm. long or less, the raehis short, usually with two short 

 lateral branchlets. each bearing one flower. Flowers obovoid. 

 about 3 mm. long, sessile or subsessile. the limb very slightly 

 produced, truncate. Petals wholly united into a deciduous 

 calyptra about 1.5 mm. in diameter. Stamens numerous, their 

 filaments very short. 



Sarawak. Kuching. Hariland 2930, May 19. 1893. 



This species is especially well characterized by its slender, 

 terete, pale branches and branchlets. the internodes 3 to 9 cm. 

 in length, and its very short, few-rlowered, depauperate, axil- 

 lary and terminal cymes, which do not exceed the petioles in 

 length. It differs radically from Eugenia baramensis. Merr.. 

 another Bornean species that has very short, few-flowered cymes 

 not only in its vegetative characters but also in its pale, terete, 

 not 4-angled branches and branchlets. 



Schefflera, Forster. 



Six species of this genus were definitely known from Borneo, 

 and an examination of the material in the Singapore herbarium 

 has enabled me to increase the list to ten. Of the previously des- 

 cribed species I was able to match but two in the Singapore her- 

 barium, these being Scliejjieva tetrandra, Merr.. represented by 

 Ridley 12251 from Matang. and Ear Hand s.n. from Kuching, and 

 ^. borneenxis. Merr.. represented by a Kuching specimen probably 

 collected by flaviJand. There are four additional species in the 

 Singapore herbarium, and five in the Bureau of Science herbarium, 

 making a total of nineteen Bornean species: however, as the mate- 

 rial representing these additional nine species is decidedly inade- 

 quate in each case, I do not consider it advisable to attempt to carry 

 the classification beyond the genus at the present time. 



Schefflera borneensis, sp. nov. 



Arbor parva. inflorescentiis perspicue brunneo-furfuraceis : 

 foliis longe petiolatis, 8- vel 10-foliolatis, foliolis oblongis, in- 

 tegris, coriaceis. usque ad 2(3 cm. longis, breviter acuminatis. 

 basi obtusis vel acutis, nervis turinque circiter 12, utrinque 

 cum reticulis distinctis : inflorescentiis lit videtur terminalibus. 

 ramis prionariis numerosis. confertis. racemose dispositis, us- 

 que ad 20 cm. longis: umbellis numerosis. tenuiter peduncu- 

 latis. 15 — 20-fioris : floribus parvis, 5-meris : petalis extus 

 parcissime et minutissime furfuraceis. ovatis. circiter 2 mm. 

 longis: fructibus circiter 4: mm. longis, subellipsoideis. acute 

 5-angulatis, sulcatis. 



A small tree, glabrous except the conspicuously brown- 

 furfuraceous inflorescences. Branches apparently thickened. 



R. A. Soc. Xo. 79. 



