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ranged, curved, anastomosing, the primary reticulations very 
lax, distinct, subparallel ; petioles 5 to 6 cm long ; stipules lanceo- 
late, acuminate, puberulent, about 7 mm long. Pistillate racemes 
simple, leaf-opposed, about 7 cm long, few-flowered, rather 
densely hirsute with stiff, pale-yellowish, more or less deciduous 
hairs, the pedicels about 1 cm long, the subtending bracteoles 
ovate, obtuse, 2 mm long or less. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 
hirsute, 5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, densely hirsute and also 
densely covered with long-stipitate glandular-capitate, hair-like 
papillae 2 to 2.5 mm in length; styles stout, 8 mm long, densely 
papillate. 
British North Borneo, Marutai, near Tawau, D. D. Wood 451, June 
6, 1917, back of the mangrove swamp. 
A strongly characterized species apparently as closely allied to Mallotus 
calvus Pax & K. Hoffm. as to any other species, but with fewer-nerved 
leaves, few-flowered racemes, much larger pistillate flowers, and hirsute 
and also densely long-stipitate, glandular-capitate ovaries. The leaf- 
opposed simple racemes are characteristic. 
MALLOTUS AFFINIS sp. nov. § Axenfeldia. 
Arbor circiter 12 m alta, subtus foliis ad costa nervisque parce 
ciliato-villosis, inflorescentiis plus minusve tomentosis; foliis 
omnibus alternis, oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-obovatis, subco- 
riaceis, usque ad 13 cm longis, abrupte acuminatis et minute 
apiculatis, integerrimis, basi minute biauricukitis et perspicue 
biglandulosis, subtus dense glandulosis, glandulis immersis; ner- 
vis utrinque circiter 10, subtus prominentibus, reticulis primariis 
prominentibus, parallelis; infructescentiis axillaribus, 6 ad 9 cm 
longis, simpliciter racemosis; capsulis dicoccis, circiter 1 cm 
diametro, densissime pallide stellato-tomentosis et dense echinatis. 
A tree about 12 m high, the branches terete, brownish- 
olivaceous, glabrous, smooth, the young branchlets slightly pubes- 
cent, the indumentum mostly of short simple hairs with a few 
stellate ones intermixed. Leaves all alternate, oblong-elliptic to 
oblong-obovate, entire, 8 to 13 cm long, 3.5 to 5.5 cm wide, 
rather prominently acuminate, the acumen stout, 1 cm long or 
less and minutely apiculate, base narrowed, minutely biauriculate 
and distinctly 2-glandular, the glands impressed on the upper 
surface, the upper surface grayish, shining, smooth, eglandular, 
the lower paler, rather densely glandular, the glands immersed ; 
lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, very pro- 
minent on the lower surface, curved, anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions prominent, parallel; petioles 3 to 5 cm long, thickened at 
their apices ; stipules acicular, 3 to 5 mm long. Infructescences 
axillary, simply racemose, 6 to 9 cm long, sparingly pubescent, 
