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of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, spreading, curved, 
anastomosing, the reticulations distinct; petioles up to 8 cm 
in length. Flowers axillary, fascicled, their pedicels slender, 8 
to 14 mm long, sparingly furfuraceous, each usually with a single, 
linear-lanceolate, 1 to 2 mm long bracteole. Sepals 5, elliptic, 
obtuse to subacute, 4 to 4.5 mm long, smooth, sparingly pubes- 
cent. Fruit ovoid-globose, about 4 mm long, somewhat pubes- 
cent; styles 3, free to the base, 4 mm long; seeds numerous, 
about 1 mm long, brown, closely reticulate. 
British North Borneo, Minitindok Gorge, Mount Kinabalu, Mrs. Cle- 
mens 10496, November 19, 1915, the fruit dull- white. 
This species is readily distinguished among its congeners by its long- 
petioled, glabrous, cordate leaves, its fascicled flowers, three free styles, 
and somewhat pubescent ovaries and fruits. 
SAURAUIA MATTHEWSII sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor, ramulis plus minusve adpresse squamoso- 
setosis, squamae lanceolatae; foliis chartaceis, oblongo-lanceo- 
latis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, tenuiter acuminatis, margine 
curvato-setosis, deorsum angustatis, basi cuneatis, usque ad 
28 cm longis, supra glabris, laevis, nitidis, vel costa parcis- 
sime adpresse lanceolato-squamosis, subtus ad costa nervisque 
leviter hirsutis atque cum reticulis setis subpatulis leviter ciliatis 
instructis; nervis utrinque 11 ad 13, perspicuis; floribus axillari- 
bus, solitariis vel binis, pedicellatis ; sepalis inaequalibus, circiter 
7 mm longis, exterioribus extus densissime pallide setosis, setis 
tenuibus, leviter ciliatis ; ovario glabro ; stylis 3, alte connatis. 
A shrub or small tree, the branchlets more or less appressed- 
scaly with lanceolate, pale, acuminate, sparingly ciliate, rather 
stout scales up to 4 mm in length, and also somewhat pubescent. 
Leaves chartaceous, grayish or somewhat brownish when dry, 
oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 23 to 28 cm long, 6 to 8 
cm wide, the upper surface smooth, glabrous, or the midrib with 
few, closely appressed, lanceolate, stiff scales, the lower surface 
somewhat hirsute on the midrib and lateral nerves, and with 
numerous, spreading, somewhat curved, 1 to 3 mm long setae 
on the midrib, nerves, and reticulations, the setae sparingly 
ciliate, the apex slenderly and sharply caudate-acuminate, below 
gradually narrowed to the cuneate base, margins ciliate-setose 
with curved-spreading setae; lateral nerves 11 to 13 on each 
side of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, curved- 
ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, subparallel; 
petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long, appressed setose-scaly and pubescent. 
Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs, their pedicels 10 to 12 mm 
