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up to 35 cm in length, the lower branches often subtended by 
1-foliolate leaves, the branches up to 20 cm in length, more or 
less ferruginous-puberulent, or in age nearly glabrous. Follicles, 
including the stalk, 5 to 6 cm long, inequilaterally obovoid, 
somewhat compressed^ about 3 cm wide, the sutures rather 
stoutly keeled, one side nearly straight or but slightly curved, 
the other very prominently curved, the apex broadly rounded and 
laterally subrostrate with a stout short beak, narrowed below 
to the stout, 1 to 1.5 cm long pseudostalk, the pericarp brown, 
shining, diagonally striate and glabrous externally, almost woody 
in texture, inside very densely tomentose with somewhat fulvous, 
simple, shining, short hairs. Aril 2-lobed, the lobes suborbi- 
cular, about 8 mm long, the seed very immature. 
British North Borneo, Tawao, Agama U22, July 14, 1917, on ridges, 
the fruit greenish-red. 
This species is strongly characterized by its 3-foliate leaves, many- 
nerved, rather large leaflets, and its large, inequilaterally obovoid, laterally 
beaked follicles, which are densely tomentose within with simple hairs, but 
glabrous and shining outside. It is probably as closely allied to Connanis 
grandis Jack as to other species. 
CONNARUS BQRNEENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis amplis, minute ferrugineo- 
pubescens; foliis 3- vel 5-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo-ovatis, utrin- 
que glabris, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi obtusis ad subro- 
tundatis, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 13 
cm longis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, perspicuis, curvato-adscen- 
dentibus ; paniculis axillaribus terminalibusque, usque ad 25 cm 
longis, multifloris; floribus circiter 5 mm longis, sepalis anguste 
oblongis, obtusis, pubescentibus, petalis oblanceolatis, nigro- 
punctatis, glabris, quam sepalis duplo longioribus; folliculis cir- 
citer 3 cm longis, oblique obovoideis, leviter compressis, stipitatis, 
in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, apice late rotundatis, lateraliter 
breviter acuteque rostratis, basi cuneatis, junioribus extus par- 
cissime pubescentibus glabrescentibus, intus pilis paucis simpli- 
cibus adpressis instructis. 
A scandent shrub, glabrous except the minutely pubescent or 
puberulent inflorescences, the indumentum ferruginous or sub- 
ferruginous. Branches terete, brownish, sparingly lenticellate, 
the young branchlets usually slightly pubescent. Leaves 3- or 
5-foliolate, about 20 cm long, the rachis and petiole glabrous; 
leaflets oblong-ovate, subcoriaceous, usually brown when dry, 
shining, 8 to 13 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide, apex acute to slightly 
acuminate, base obtuse to somewhat rounded; lateral nerves 4 
or 5 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent, curved-ascend- 
