xiii, c, 2 Merrill: New Species of Bornean Plants HI 
to 2.5 mm in length. Calyx about 5 mm in diameter, the lobes 
ovate, acuminate, about 1.5 mm long, prominently glandular, 
margins ciliate. Fruits globose, glabrous, about 6 mm in dia- 
meter, the styles slender, 3 to 4 mm long. 
Sarawak, Native collector 672, U2h, 1UU8, 1178 (type) Bur. Sci., one of 
the specimens from Matang Road, July 25, 1911, the others not localized. 
This very characteristic species is somewhat anomalous in the section 
Bladhia in its racemose inflorescences, entire leaves, and in being glabrous 
throughout. It does not appear to be closely allied to any previously de- 
scribed species of the genus. 
ARDISIA LUCIDA sp. nov. § Pimelandra. 
Arbor circiter 8 m alta, novellis minutissime ferrugineo-tomen- 
tosis exceptis glabra; foliis oblongis, chartaceis, nitidis, usque 
ad 13 cm longis, alternis, supra subolivaceis, subtus pallide 
brunneis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acuminatis, integris, 
epunctatis, nervis utrinque circiter 14, curvatis, anastomosanti- 
bus, supra plerumque impressis, subtus prominulis ; inflorescentiis 
axillaribus, circiter '2 cm longis, bipinnatim paniculatis, e basi 
ramosis, floribus umbellatim dispositis; calycis lobis oblongis, 
acutis, 1.2 mm longis, leviter furfuraceis, margine minute ciliatis, 
eglandulosis. 
A tree about 8 m high, glabrous except the minutely ferrugin- 
ous-tomentose growing tips of the branchlets. Branches terete, 
brownish, smooth. Leaves alternate, chartaceous, shining on 
both surfaces, the upper surface subolivaceous, the lower pale- 
brownish, epunctate, oblong, 9 to 13 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, 
subequally narrowed to the acute or somewhat acuminate base 
and the distinctly acuminate apex ; primary lateral nerves about 
14 on each side of the midrib, usually impressed on the upper 
surface, prominent on the lower surface, curved, anastomosing, 
the reticulations close, not prominent; petioles 9 to 13 mm long. 
Panicles bipinnate, branched from the base, axillary, about 2 
cm long, solitary, lax, few-flowered, the flowers umbellately dis- 
posed, the pedicels, in fruit, about 5 mm long. Calyx slightly 
furfuraceous, about 4 mm in diameter, the lobes oblong, acute, 
about 1.2 mm long, eglandular, margins slightly ciliate. Fruits 
globose, glabrous, about 5 mm in diameter. 
British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Lobang and Minitindok Gorges, 
Mrs. Clemens 10^35 (type), 10331, November 15 and 19, 1915. 
This species, a characteristic one of the section Pimelandra, falls in the 
group with, and is most closely allied to,, Ardisia brachybotrys Lauterb. & 
K. Schum. of New Guinea, from which it may be distinguished by its 
differently shaped, smaller leaves, its eglandular sepals, and its smooth, 
not tuberculate fruits. 
