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the glands distinctly visible to the naked eye; primary lateral 
nerves about 25 on each side of the midrib, spreading, anasto- 
mosing, distinct on the lower surface, the reticulations lax; 
petioles stout, about 5 mm long. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, 
peduncled, about 10 cm long, bipinnate, the flowers subumbellately 
arranged at the tips of the primary branches, the branches 
alternate, the lower ones 3 cm long or less. Flowers pink, 6 
to 12 in each umbel, their pedicels 7 to 9 mm long. Sepals 
elliptic-ovate, acute or obtuse, about 3 mm long, prominently 
glandular, margins sparingly ciliate, distinctly imbricate in the 
basal parts, nearly free. Petals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
about 6 mm long and 3 mm wide, the upper part with few, 
scattered, large glands, the median portion of the lower half 
densely punctate-glandular with small glands. Anthers oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, about 4 mm long, the connectives not 
glandular. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style 4.5 mm long, not 
exserted in bud. 
Sarawak, Mount Poe, Foxworthy 201, May 24, 1908, altitude about 1,300 
meters. 
This species falls in the group with Ardisia lanceolata Roxb., but is 
not closely allied to that species. It is well characterized by its purplish- 
brown, oblong, obscurely undulate, prominently punctate, short-petioled, 
obtuse leaves. 
ARDISIA PYGMAEA sp. nov. § Bladhia. 
Suffrutex usque ad 20 cm altus, glaber, caulibus simplicibus, 
erectis vel infra decumbens ; f oliis confertis, obovatis ad oblongo- 
obovatis, integris, usque ad 13 cm longis, chartaceis ad subcoria- 
ceis, apice rotundatis, basi acutis vel subacutis, breviter petiolatis, 
nervis utrinque 12 ad 15, distinctis; inflorescentiis in axillis 
superioribus, usque ad 8 cm longis, simpliciter racemosis ; calycis 
lobis ovatis, acuminatis, perspicue glandulosis, margine ciliatis, 
circiter 1.5 mm longis; fructibus globosis, glabris, circiter 6 
mm diametro. 
A dwarfed, erect, simple undershrub about 20 cm high, the 
stems erect or decumbent below, woody, up to 5 mm in diameter, 
dark-brown. Leaves crowded toward the apices of the stems, 
olivaceous, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, obovate to oblong- 
obovate, 8 to 13 cm long, 4 to 5.5 cm wide, glabrous, epunctate 
or with but few glands, apex broadly rounded, narrowed below 
to the acute or subacute base, the margins entire ; lateral nerves 
12 to 15 on each side of the midrib, distinct; petioles 4 to 7 
mm long. Racemes simple, erect, up to 8 cm long, in the upper 
axils, glabrous. Pedicels 3 to 4 mm long, recurved, the subtend- 
ing bracteoles ovate to oblong-ovate, prominently glandular, up 
