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nal, 2 to 4 cm long, bipinnately paniculate, few-flowered, densely 
cupreous-lepidote, the primary branches few, 1 cm long or less, 
the flowers umbellately arranged on the ultimate branchlets, their 
pedicels 3 mm long or less. Sepals oblong, obtuse, about 1 mm 
long, not at all imbricate, margins minutely ciliate, glandular- 
punctate. Petals glabrous, oblong-ovate, subacute, sparingly 
glandular, about 3 mm long. Styles not at all exserted. 
Sarawak, Mount Poe, Foxworthy 375, 386 (type), June 3, 1908, near 
the summit, altitude about 1,700 meters; Mount Santubong, Native collector 
2227 Bur. Sci. 
In the group of comparatively few species to which this form pertains, 
it is well characterized by its small inflorescences but more especially by its 
ferruginous to cupreous lepidote indumentum. 
ARDISIA HOSEI sp. nov. § Acrardisia. 
Arbor glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis oblongis ad 
oblongo-lanceolatis, chartaceis, olivaceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, 
acuminatis, basi acutis, utrinque perspicue glandulosis, nervis 
primariis utrinque 15 ad 18, tenuibus; inflorescentiis termina- 
libus, pedunculatis, 10 ad 12 cm longis, bipinnatim paniculatis, 
paucifloris; floribus magnis, apertis circiter 2.5 cm diametro, 
racemose dispositis, pedicellis 1 ad 1.3 cm longis; sepalis sub 
anthesin apertis, hand imbricatis, oblongo-obovatis ad obovato- 
ellipticis, obtusis, glabris, perspicue nigro-punctatis, in alabastro 
valde imbricato; petalis circiter 1.2 mm longis, obtusis, glan- 
duloso-punctatis, oblongo-ellipticis. 
A glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets terete, reddish- 
brown, sparingly glandular-punctate. Leaves alternate, charta- 
ceous, olivaceous, slightly shining, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
13 to 20 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide, base acute, apex somewhat 
acuminate, the acumen blunt, both surfaces conspicuously and 
rather densely glandular-punctate, the glands all alike in size, 
margins entire; primary lateral nerves 15 to 18 on each side 
of the midrib, slender, sometimes scarcely more prominent than 
are the secondary nerves; petioles 1 to 1.8 cm long. Panicles 
terminal, bipinnate, few-flowered, peduncled, 10 to 12 cm long, 
the flowers racemosely arranged on the ultimate branches, the 
pedicels 1 to 1.3 cm long. Flowers unusually large for the genus, 
when spread about 2.5 cm in diameter. Sepals in bud strongly 
imbricate, in anthesis spreading, not at all imbricate, oblong- 
obovate to elliptic-obovate, entirely glabrous, conspicuously black- 
glandular, rounded or obtuse. Corolla-lobes nearly free, about 
12 mm long, 5 mm wide, obtuse, glandular, oblong-elliptic. Fila- 
