32 SPECIES OF EUGENIA, SCHEFFLERA, AND SAURAUIA. 



ad 18 cm. longis, breviter acuminatis, basi acutis, margine 

 crenulatis, nervis utrinque 8 — 10, distinctis; floribus e rami's 

 defoliatis, solitariis vel binis, glabris, longe pedicellatis ; sepalis 

 yalde inaequalibus, exterioribus ellipticis, circiter G mm. longis, 

 interioribus latissime ovatis vel suboxbieularibus, circiter 8 mm. 

 longis; ovario glabro; stylis 3, circiter 9 mm. longis, basi 

 leviter connatis. 



A shrul), glabrous throughout, or the very youngest parts 

 slightly furfuraceons, soon becoming entirely glabrous. Leaves 

 mostly oblong, coriaceous, 10 to 18 cm. long,' 4 to 1 cm. wide, 

 usually olivaceous when dry, the lower surfaces brownish to 

 castaneous, shining, the apex shortly and rather obtusely acu- 

 minate, base acute, margins crenulate; lateral nerves 8 to 10 

 on each side of the midrib, prominent; petioles 2 to 3 cm. 

 long. Flowers on the brandies below the leaves, solitary or 

 in pairs, their pedicels ultimately 3 cm. in length (in young 

 fruit) in bud shorter, each with one or two ovate, obtuse bracts 

 in the lower part 1 mm. long or less. Sepals glabrous, un- 

 equal, the outer two elliptic, about G mm. long and 3.3 mm. 

 wide, tire inner three broadly ovate to suborbieular, about 8 

 mm. long. Corolla about 12 mm. long, the lobes 9 by G mm., 

 the apex truncate-rounded and refuse. Stamens about 30. 

 Ovary glabrous; styles 3, glabrous, about 9 mm. long, united 

 for the lower 1 to 2 mm. 



Sarawak, Matang, Haviland s.n., August, 1888 (type), 

 Penkuku, Haviland s.n.j near Kuching, Haviland 100J±, Janu- 

 ary 19, 1892 (with some of the leaves obovate), Satire collec- 

 tor 256, ooo, :2Jf9J Bur. Sci. 



This species greatly resembles Saurauia audi flora, DC, 

 of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java, but is at once 

 distinguished from it by its 3, not 5 styles ; it differs also in 

 various other characters. 



Saurauia spinuloso-setosa, sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, ramis et foliis utrinque et in- 

 florescentiis perspicue curvato-spinuloso-setosis, setis plerum- 

 que subpatulis, ferrugineis vel subferrugineis ; foliis chartaceis, 

 ellipticis vel ovato-ellipticis, usque ad 17 cm. longis, in sicci- 

 tate supra castaneis, subtus palliclioribus, apice tenuiter cau- 

 dato-acuminatis, basi saepe leviter inaequilateralibus, obtusis 

 vel rotundatis, margine perspicue spinulosis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 15, perspicuis ; cijmis axillaribus, solitariis vel fasci- 

 culatis, subsessilibus vel breviter pedunculatis, paucifloris ; 

 bract eis linearibus, 4 ad 6 mm. longis, setosis ; sepalis setosis, 

 oblongo-ovatis, acutis, circiter 5.5 mm. longis ; antheris circiter 

 30; ovario glabro, stylis 3, liberis, glabris, 3 mm. longis. 



A shrub or small tree, all parts prominently spinulose- 

 setose with brownish to ferrugineous, usually spreading, curved 



i Jour. Straits Branch 



