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villiformibus destitutes; racemis axillaribus, solitariis vel binis, 
usque ad 2.5 cm longis, paucifloris; floribus 5-meris, urceolatis, 
circiter 4 mm longis, calycis perspicue lineatis, lobis ovatis, 
obtusis, glabris, integris ; petalis f connatis, lineatis, lobis circiter 
1 mm longis, obtusis ad subacutis. 
A glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets elenticellate, 
terete, brownish. Leaves oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, mem- 
branaceous, rather pale when dry, slightly shining, 15 to 20 cm 
long, 6.5 to 9 cm wide, base acute to decurrent-acuminate, apex 
slenderly subcaudate-acuminate, the acumen acute, about 1.5 
cm long, the margins rather prominently subrepand-dentate, the 
lower surface very minutely subrubiginous-puncticulate ; lateral 
nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, prominent, somewhat 
ascending, the reticulations inconspicuous; petioles about 1.5 
cm long. Racemes axillary, simple, solitary or in pairs, up to 
2.5 cm long, few-flowered. Flowers 5-merous, about 4 mm long, 
the pedicels 3 mm long, the bracteoles 2, oblong, less than 1 mm 
long. Calyx-tube and lobes prominently lineate, the lobes ovate, 
obtuse, entire, 1.3 to 1.5 mm long. Corolla prominently lineate, 
the tube about 2 mm long, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse to 
subacute, about 1 mm long. Stamens attached at about the 
middle of the tube, the filaments about as long as the anthers. 
British North Borneo, Villamil 23i, June, 1917. 
This species is strongly characterized by being entirely glabrous; by 
its rather large, membranaceous, rather prominently subrepand-dentate, 
subcaudate-acuminate, rather many-nerved leaves, which are minutely sub- 
rubiginous-puncticulate; and its short, few-flowered, simple racemes, the 
flowers being 5-merous and prominently lineate. It is perhaps as closely 
allied to Maesa laevigata Scheff. as to any other known species. 
MAESA CLEM ENTIS sp. nov. 
Frutex, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque parcissime puber- 
ulis exceptis glaber, ramis ramulisque in siccitate brunneis, 
teretibus, parce lenticellatis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad oblongis, 
usque ad 11 cm longis, membranaceis ad chartaceis, pallide 
olivaceis, basi rotundatis ad subacutis, apice distincte acuminatis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 8, perspicuis, subtus haud puncticulatis, 
lineis nervilliformibus manifestis auctis, margine distanter sub- 
rostrato- vel apiculato-dentatis ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, de- 
pauperato-paniculatis, petiolo subaequantibus ; floribus 5-meris, 
circiter 3 mm longis, calycis lobis lineatis, ovatis, acuminatis, 
1 mm longis, margine minutissime ciliatis; petalis usque ad § 
connatis, lobes lineatis, orbiculari-reniformibus, rotundatis; fila- 
mentis quam antheris 3- vel 4-plo longioribus. 
A shrub, glabrous except the very slightly puberulent branch- 
