OREOMYRRHIS BORNEENSIS MERR. SP. NOV., AN IN- 
TERESTING ADDITION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE 
OF THE MALAYAN FLORA 
E. D. Merrill 
The discovery of a representative of the genus Oreomyrrhis 
Endlicher on Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in the Malayan 
region outside of New Guinea, adds another species to the rather 
remarkable list of plants now known from that mountain which must 
be considered as Australian types. It is, moreover, the first represent- 
ative of this small genus to be found in the Malayan region, or for 
that matter in the Old World north of Australia. Other Kinabalu 
species indicating unmistakable Australian or Austrahan-New Zealand 
alliances include Blechnum fraseri Luerss., Ranunculus lowii Stapf, 
Drimys piperita Hook, f., Didiscus saniculaefolius .(Stapf) Merr., 
Coprosma crassicaulis Stapf, C. hookeri Stapf, Nertera depressa Banks, 
Lagenophora gihhsiae Merr., Gaultheria borneensis Stapf, Euphrasia 
horneensis Stapf, Drapetes ericoides Hook, f., Patersonia lowii Stapf, 
P. horneensis Stapf, Centrolepis kanihaluensis Gibbs, Scirpus inun- 
datus Spreng., Schoenus kinabaluensis Stapf, and S. melancostachyus 
R. Br. Representatives of all the characteristically Australian genera 
of the above list, with the exception of Coprosma and Drapetes, and of 
Oreomyrrhis, have been found in the Philippines, but no representa- 
tives of the genera Schoenus, Drimys, Didiscus, Drapetes, Patersonia, 
Centrolepis, or Oreomyrrhis have been found in western Malaya, 
although some have been found in Celebes and in New Guinea, a 
distribution wholly to be expected of all of them. 
Oreomyrrhis borneensis sp. no v. 
Herba caespitosa, glabra vel subglabra, usque ad 15 cm. alta; 
foliis longe petiolatis, in ambitu oblongis, usque ad 4 cm. longis et 
1.5 cm. latis, bi-tripinnatim dissectis, segmentis numerosis, parvis, 
oblongis, acuminatis, i ad 2 mm. longis, 0.3 ad 0.5 mm. latis; pedun- 
culis erectis, quam petiolis brevioribus, sursum parce pubescentibus, 
tenuibus; floribus paucis (circiter 10), breviter pedicellatis; fructibus 
oblongis, acuminatis, 3 ad 4 mm. longis, distincte cinereo-hirsutus, 
carpellis distanter 5-costatis. 
A tufted perennial herb 8 to 15 cm. high, simple or with few basal 
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