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late, oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 12 to 17 cm long, 4 to 
6.5 cm wide, base subacute, the apex slenderly acuminate, the 
acumen subacute, up to 2 cm in length, the margins very dis- 
tantly apiculate-dentate, the teeth always short, sometimes obso- 
lete and the margins entire or nearly so; lateral nerves 5 or 6 
on each side of the midrib, rather prominent, curved-ascending, 
anastomosing, the reticulations lax, indistinct; petioles about 1 
cm long. Infruetescences axillary, shorter than the petioles, of 
solitary or paired, simple racemes, the rachis 5 mm long or 
less. Fruits ovoid, brown, about 5 mm long, prominently striate- 
lineate, their pedicels 2 mm long or less, the bracteoles minute, 
0.4 mm long or less. Persistent calyx-teeth 5, ovate, obtuse to 
subacute, entire, glabrous, prominently lineate, 1.5 mm long. 
Seeds numerous, sharply angled, quadrangular, about 1 mm in 
diameter. 
British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Kiau, Mrs. Clemens 9969 
(type) , 9968, November 29, 1917, “fruit greenish-brown, pale-striped.” 
While the flowers of this species are unknown, I feel rather confident 
that its alliance is with Maesa japonica (Thunb.) Moritzi, which it resem- 
bles in its vegetative characters and especially in its fruits. It is well 
characterized by its very short infruetescences, which are distinctly shorter 
than the petioles, and its crowded fruits. 
ARDISIA Swartz 
ARDISIA MOULTON II sp. nov. § Tinopsis. 
Frutex vel arbor, ramis griseis, teretibus, glabris, ramulis 
.junioribus et inflorescentiis dense brunneo- vel castaneo-furfur- 
aceis ; foliis oblongis, coriaceis, nitidis, epunctatis, integris, 
usque ad 20 cm longis, basi acutis, apice acuminatis, nervis 
primariis utrinque circiter 35, distinctis vel indistinctis ; inflo- 
rescentiis terminalibus, usque ad 12 cm longis, tripinnatim pani- 
culatis, floribus in ramulis ultimis subumbellatim dispositis, con- 
fertis, breviter et crasse pedicellatis, calycis tubo obconico, 3 
ad 4 mm longo, lobis late ovatis, valde imbricatis, acutis vel 
acuminatis, circiter 6 mm longis, coriaceis, obscure punctatis, 
margine ciliatis. 
A shrub or tree, glabrous except the distinctly and rather 
densely brownish- to castaneous-lepidote branchlets and inflores- 
cences, the leaves often minutely lepidote. Branches terete, 
grayish. Leaves alternate, oblong, coriaceous, somewhat shin- 
ing, brownish-olivaceous, of about the same color on both sur- 
faces, epunctate, 12 to 20 cm long, 2.5 to 7 cm wide, subequally 
narrowed to the acute base and the somewhat acuminate apex, 
entire, the midrib somewhat impressed on the upper surface, 
very prominent on the lower surface; lateral nerves about 25 
