xiii, c. 2 Merrill: New Species of Bornean Plcmts 95 
A glabrous scandent plant, the branches slender, pale or brown- 
ish when dry, obscurely striate. Leaves ovate to oblong, entire, 
pale-olivaceous, shining, of about the same color on both surfaces, 
chartaceous, 4 to 6.5 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, base broadly 
rounded and distinctly cordate, beneath with a pair of distinct 
auricle-like glands, narrowed upward, the apex obtuse to obtusely 
acuminate and usually minutely apiculate; lateral nerves pin- 
nately arranged, 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, curved, 
anastomosing, slender but distinct, the reticulations lax ; petioles 
1 cm long or less. Inflorescences 4 to 7 cm in length, few- to 
many-flowered, dichotomous, peduncled, the tendrils from the 
apices of the peduncles between the two primary branches. 
Flowers yellow, about 1 cm long, their pedicels slender, 1 to 2 
cm in length, the bracteoles minute, the perianth narrowly 
oblong-ovoid, acute at both ends, the sepals 4, oblong-ovate, 
obtuse, about 1.5 mm long, the petals linear-oblong, 1.5 mm long, 
thin, inserted at the apex of the perianth-tube. Stamens 4; 
anthers narrowly oblong, 4 to 4.5 mm long. Fruits red when 
mature, oblong-ovoid, narrowed at both ends, base and apex 
acute, 7 to 9 cm long, apparently pendulous, 3-valved, apparently 
terete, the valves thickly coriaceous, hard and stiff when dry, 
reddish-brown, smooth and shining. Seeds ellipsoid, compressed, 
prominently and densely subfoveolate, 8 to 9 mm long. 
British North Borneo, Mount Kalawat, Mrs. Clemens 11138, December 
10, 1915 (type) ; Mount Kinabalu, Kiau, Mrs. Clemens 10091, November 
27, 1915. 
This species much resembles the Javan Adenia cordifolia (Blume) Engl, 
as figured and described by Blume, Rumphia, 1 (1835) 167, t. 49, from 
which it is at once distinguished by its 4-merous, not 5-merous flowers. 
ADENIA CLEMEN TIS sp. nov. § Microblepharis. 
Frutex scandens, glaber; foliis chartaceis, oblongis, usque ad 
10 cm longis, subolivaceis, nitidis, utrinque subaequaliter an- 
gustatis, integris, tenuiter acuminatis, basi acutis, perspicue 
auriculato-glandulosis, nervis utrinque 4, distinctis; inflorescen- 
tiis axillaribus, cymosis, pedunculatis, paucifloris, 4 ad 6 cm 
longis; floribus 5-meris, anguste oblongo-ovoideis, 8 ad 9 mm 
longis, utrinque subacutis; fructibus ovoideo-ellipsoideis, tereti- 
bus, circiter 5 cm longis, apice subrotundatis, basi subacutis vel 
subrotundatis. 
A scandent glabrous shrub, the branches terete, pale or brown- 
ish, slightly striate when dry. Leaves oblong, chartaceous, 
subolivaceous to somewhat pale when dry, of about the same 
color on both surfaces or somewhat paler beneath, shining, 7 
to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 6 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the 
