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inflorescences, the primary branches usually three in number, 

 cinereous-puberulent, and the shortly pedicelled, usually 8- 

 merous flowers being arranged in distant, few-flowered fascicles, 

 not in umbels. 



Saurauia, Willdenow. 



Saurauia planchonii, Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 23 (1860) 

 161. 



Sarawak, near Tegora, Haviland 2048 and a sheet with- 

 out number indicated as " = 2048 " ; Kuching, Haviland, in- 

 dicated as "= 764" (inflorescences immature) ; Matang, Rid- 

 ley; Ban, Ridley 11785, '"epiphyte, flowers red"; Tambusan, 

 Ridley. 



A characteristic endemic species. 



Saurauia heterosepala, Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 13 (1918) 

 Bot. 



'Sarawak, near Kuching, Haviland 27 and s.n., March, 

 1893. The specimens differ in a few minor details from the 

 type but I think represent this species. 



Saurauia oblancifolia, Merr. nom. nov. 



Saurauia oblanceolata, Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 13 

 (1918) Bot. 92, non Ridley, 1916. 



Sarawak, Bongaya, Ridley 9076, December, 1897, " shrub, 

 flowers white, said to be irritating/' The specimen agrees 

 closely with the type. 



Saurauia ferox, Korth., Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. (1839-42) 132, 

 *. SO. 



'Sarawak, Haviland s.n. Apparently typical of this en- 

 demic species. 



Saurauia amoena, Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4 (1894) 134. 



British North Borxeo, Mount Ivinabalu, Haviland 

 1361, a cotype of this endemic species. 



In addition to the above and those described below, there is 

 in the herbarium also a species indicated under an as yet unpublish- 

 ed name proposed by Stapf, represented by four specimens, and an 

 apparently undeseribed species represented by a rather inadequate 

 specimen from Gaya, collector not indicated but probably Eidley. 



Saurauia glabra, sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber; foliis coriaceis, in siccitate olivaceis, niti- 

 dis, subtus brunneis vel castaneis, plerumque oblongis, usque 



R. A. Soc, No. 79. 



