xiii, c, 2 Merrill: New Species of Bornean Plants H7 
merits about 3 mm long; anthers oblong-lanceolate, subcaudate- 
acuminate, 5 to 6 mm long, the connectives sparingly glandular. 
Sarawak, Baram District, Marudi, Hose 585, April, 1905. 
This species is well characterized by its unusually large flowers, in the 
characters of these differing entirely from Ardisia polyactis Mez, to which 
it is apparently most closely allied; in vegetative characters it closely 
approximates Mez’s species. 
OLEACEAE 
LINOCIERA Swartz 
LI NOCI ERA MACROBOTRYS sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, ramulis laevis, teretibus, rubro-brunneis ; foliis 
coriaceis, oblongis, subolivaceis, utrinque subconcoloribus, nitidis, 
usque ad 6 cm longis, subtus minute puncticulatis, utrinque acutis 
vel apice obscure acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, tenuibus, 
obscuris, interdum obsoletis vel subobsoletis, subtus leviter im- 
pressis, reticulis obsoletis; inflorescentiis usque ad 15 cm longis, 
amplis, multifloris, laxis, ramis inferioribus usque ad 9 cm longis 
quadripinnatim paniculatis ; floribus tenuiter pedicellatis, 4-meris, 
circiter 4 mm longis, petalis basi leviter connatis, oblongis, 
obtusis. 
A shrub 2 m high fide Foxworthy, entirely glabrous in all parts, 
the branches terete, smooth, reddish-brown, sometimes slightly 
glaucous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, 5 to 6 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm 
wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and apex, or the 
apex slightly acuminate, margins usually recurved, entire, when 
dry subolivaceous to brownish-olivaceous, of about the same color 
and shining on both surfaces, the lower surface minutely puncti- 
culate, the midrib impressed on the upper surface, somewhat 
prominent on the lower surface; lateral nerves very slender, 
obscure, sometimes obsolete or nearly so, about 6 on each side 
of the midrib, not anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete, often 
very slightly impressed on the lower surface; petioles about 5 
mm long. Panicles terminal and lateral, ample, 4-pinnately 
paniculate, up to 15 cm in length, branched from near the base, 
the lower branches up to 9 cm in length, lax, many-flowered, the 
bracts deciduous, about 3 mm long, the rachis and branches 
reddish-brown when dry. Flowers yellowish, brown when dry, 
4-merous, about 2 mm long, their pedicels 2 to 3 mm in length. 
Calyx-teeth triangular-ovate, acute,' 0.5 mm long. Petals some- 
what united, oblong, obtuse. Anthers 1.2 mm long, the connec- 
tives very broad. 
