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Sarawak, Mount Poe, Foxwortliy 369 (type), 290, June 3, 1908 in 
forests on the upper slopes of the mountain, altitude 1,500 to 1,700 meters, 
with the Dyak name bai'ungian batu. 
The striking characters of this species are its small, coriaceous, very 
obscurely nerved, non-reticulate leaves, and its unusually large panicles. 
It does not seem to be closely allied to any other described Malayan species. 
LI NOCI ERA OLIGANTH A sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, vel bracteolis calycibusque parcissime pubescent- 
ibus, ramis ramulisque pallidis, teretibus ; foliis oblongis, charta- 
ceis ad subcoriaceis, usque ad 15 cm longis, in siccitate laevis, 
pallidis, nitidis, apice acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque cir- 
citer 8, tenuibus, supra saepe obsoletis vel subobsoletis, subtus 
leviter prominulis, reticulis obsoletis vel subobsoletis; inflores- 
centiis axillaribus, spiciformibus, solitariis vel binis, usque ad 
1.5 cm longis, paucifloris; floribus circiter 5.5 mm longis, 4-meris, 
petalis involutis. 
A tree, glabrous throughout or the bracteoles and calyces 
very obscurely pubescent. Branches and branchlets terete, 
slender, smooth, pale. Leaves opposite, oblong, chartaceous to 
subcoriaceous, eglandular, smooth, pale, and shining when dry, 
10 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the 
acute base and to the prominently but blunt-acuminate apex, 
the midrib impressed on the upper surface, somewhat prominent 
on the lower surface; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of 
the midrib, slender, not prominent, often obsolete or subobsolete 
on the upper surface, slightly projecting on the lower surface, 
obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations lax, indistinct, often 
obsolete or nearly so; petioles pale, stout, 4 mm long or less. 
Inflorescences spike-like, simple, axillary, solitary or in pairs, 
few-flowered, 5 to 15 mm long, all parts except the pale bracteoles 
dark-brown when dry, the bracteoles ovate, 1.2 mm long, usually 
slightly pubescent. Flowers opposite, subsessile, 5 to 5.5 mm 
long, 4-merous. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, rounded, 0.4 mm 
long, often obscurely pubescent. Petals 4.5 mm long, slightly 
united at the base, oblong, involute, obtuse, glabrous. Filaments 
very short; anthers elliptic, about 1 mm long. Ovary glabrous. 
British North Borneo, Villamil 385 (type), June, 1917. I am also 
disposed to refer to this species Hose 55U from Mount Trekan, Baram 
District, Sarawak, July, 1895, which closely resembles the type, differing 
in its even shorter inflorescences and more distinctly nerved leaves. 
The alliance of this species is manifestly with Linociera montana 
(Blume) DC. of Java, from which it is distinguished, among other char- 
acters, by its slender lateral nerves being distinctly raised on the lower 
surface of the leaves. 
