xin, c , 2 Merrill: New Species of Bornean Plants H5 
or dark-colored glands, these often visible to the naked eye; 
lateral nerves about 18 on each side of the midrib, slender, dis- 
tinct on both surfaces ; petioles 2 to 3 mm long. Panicles bipin- 
nate, terminal, few-flowered, about 4 cm long, the flowers um- 
bellately arranged at the tips of the ultimate branchlets, their 
pedicels up to 7 mm in length. Flowers (spread) about 1 cm 
in diameter. Calyx about 3 mm in diameter, the lobes oblong- 
ovate, obtuse, sparingly glandular, 1 mm long, their margins 
minutely ciliate. Petals 5 mm long, oblong-ovate, acuminate, 
sparingly glandular-punctate. Anthers oblong-lanceolate, acum- 
inate, 3 mm long, the connectives not glandular. Ovary glab- 
rous; style 3.5 mm long, not exserted in bud. 
British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Kemberanga, and Paka Cave 
to Low’s Peak, ascending to an altitude of 3,350 meters, Mrs. Clemens 10517 
(type), 10663, 10663a, November 12 to 15, 1915, Haslam, August, 1918. 
This species is manifestly allied to the Philippine Ardisia scabrida Mez, 
from which it is distinguished, among other characters, by its thicker 
leaves, and obtuse, distinctly ciliate sepals. 
ARDISIA LEPIDOTULA sp. nov. § A cr ardisia. 
Frutex circiter 1.5 m altus, ramulis et inflorescentiis et subtus 
foliis junioribus dense ferrugineo- ad cupreo-lepidotulis ; foliis 
oblongis, petiolatis, chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, integris, usque ad 
8 cm longis, brunneis vel olivaceis, basi acutis, apice distincte 
sed obtuse acuminatis, utrinque minutissime puncticulatis, nervis 
primariis utrinque circiter 12, tenuibus, indistinctis, interdum 
subobsoletis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 2 ad 4 cm longis, pauci- 
floris, tripinnatim paniculatis, floribus parvis, in ramulis ultimis 
umbellatim dispositis; sepalis oblongo-ovatis, obtusis, circiter 1 
mm longis, glandulosis, margine leviter ciliatis; petalis parce 
glandulosis, circiter 3 mm longis. 
A shrub about 1.5 m high, the young branchlets, lower surface 
of the younger leaves, and the inflorescences densely and min- 
utely ferruginous- to cupreous-lepidulote, the very old leaves glab- 
rous or nearly so. Branches terete, grayish-brown, rugose, 
glabrous. Leaves alternate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, oblong, 
4 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, entire, brownish or olivaceous 
and more or less shining when dry, base acute, apex distinctly but 
bluntly acuminate, the midrib usually impressed on the upper 
surface, prominent on the lower surface, both surfaces very 
minutely and obscurely puncticulate ; primary lateral nerves 
about 12 on each side of the midrib, very slender, usually obscure, 
often nearly obsolete ; petioles about 5 mm long, ultimately glab- 
rous, when young densely cupreous-lepidote. Panicles termi- 
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