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lets and inflorescences. Branches and branchlets brown when 
dry, slender, terete, more or less lenticellate, slightly striate. 
Leaves membranaceous to chartaceous, oblong-ovate to oblong, 
7 to 11 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, pale-olivaceous and shining 
when dry, the base rounded to acute, the apex distinctly acumi- 
nate, the margins distantly dentate with short, stout, blunt, 
subrostrate or apiculate teeth, the basal parts entire or nearly 
so ; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 
curved, scarcely anastomosing, the nerves and their ultimate 
branches ending in marginal teeth, the reticulations indistinct, 
the lower surface with numerous, manifest, nerve-like lines; 
petioles 0.8 to 1.3 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, about as long 
as the petioles, depauperate-paniculate, rather few-flowered. 
Flowers white or cream-colored, 5-merous, about 3 mm long, 
their pedicels 2 mm long, the bracteole subtending the pedicels 
oblong, acuminate, less than 1 mm long, the two prophyllae sub- 
tending the flower similar to the bracteoles but slightly smaller. 
Calyx distinctly lineate, the lobes ovate, acuminate, about 1 mm 
long, their margins very minutely ciliate. Petals connate for 
about two-thirds their length, the tube not lineate, the lobes sub- 
reniform-ovate, rounded, lineate, about 0.8 mm long and 1.5 mm 
wide. Filaments attached near the base of the tube, three to 
four times as long as the anthers. 
British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Minitindok and Lobang Gorges, 
and Kiau, Mrs. Clemens 10494 (type), 10102, 10462, November 19 and 29, 
1915. 
The alliance of this species is with Maesa montana A. DC., from which 
it differs notably in its differently shaped, shortly acuminate leaves, and 
numerous other characters. 
MAESA CONFERTA sp. nov. 
Species ut videtur M. japonicae afflnis. Frutex glaberrimus, 
ramis nitidis, griseis vel brunneis; foliis submembranaceis vel 
chartaceis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 17 cm 
longis, nitidis, epuncticulatis, basi subacutis, apice tenuiter acu- 
minatis, margine distanter apiculato r dentatis vel subintegris, 
nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, curvato-adscendentibus, perspicuis, anas- 
tomosantibus ; infructescentiis axillaribus, quam petiolis brevio- 
ribus, fructibus valde confertis, ovoideis, circiter 5 mm longis, 
perspicue longitudinaliter striato-lineatis ; calycis lobis 5, ovatis, 
obtusis ad subacutis, lineatis, glabris, integris, circiter 1.5 mm 
longis. 
An entirely glabrous shrub, the branches terete, grayish to 
brownish, shining, elenticellate. Leaves submembranaceous to 
chartaceous, pale-olivaceous and shining when dry, not puncticu- 
