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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1916 
This species strongly resembles and is manifestly closely allied to 
Antidesma cumingii Muell.-Arg. of the Philippines, but is readily 
distinguished by a number of characters, notably by its much fewer-nerved 
leaves. From the glabrous fruit it is assumed that the ovary is also 
glabrous, while in Antidesma cumingii the ovary is densely pubescent. 
ANTIDESMA GRANDISTIPULUM sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, glabra, vel ramulis junioribus leviter 
puberulis ; foliis lanceolatis vel anguste oblongo-lanceolatis, usque 
ad 35 cm longis, longe acuminatis, basi acutis, nitidis, nervis 
utrinque 15 ad 17, prominentibus, anastomosantibus ; stipulis 
sessilibus, inaequilateralibus, usque ad 4 cm longis, acutis vel 
acuminatis, persistentibus, junioribus chartaceis, vetustioribus 
subcoriaceis, nitidis; inflorescentiis $ racemosis, axillaribus, 
solitariis, usque ad 35 cm longis, glabris, floribus 5-meris, 
pedicellatis ; fructibus 1.3 ad 1.5 cm longis, compressis, leviter 
inaequilateralibus, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, reticulatis, stylis 
terminalibus. 
A glabrous shrub or small tree, or the young branchlets slightly 
puberulent. Branches and branchlets terete, pale, slender. 
Leaves lanceolate to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 20 to 35 cm long, 
4 to 6.5 cm wide, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, brown and 
shining when dry, apex rather long and slenderly acuminate, 
base acute; lateral nerves 15 to 17 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, anastomosing into a distinct, arched, submarginal 
nerve, the reticulations distinct ; petioles stout, 5 to 10 mm long ; 
stipules large, prominent, persistent, chartaceous to subcoraceous, 
brown, shining, in texture and color similar to the leaves, some- 
what inequilateral, narrowed toward the base and to the acute to 
acuminate apex, the larger ones up to 4 cm long and 2 cm wide, 
those on the younger branchlets smaller, sometimes only 1.5 cm 
long and about 1 cm wide. Pistillate racemes axillary, solitary, 
in fruit up to 35 cm in length, glabrous, the fruiting pedicels 
2 to 3 mm long, the persistent calyx with five short teeth. Fruits 
oblong-ovate, somewhat inequilateral, brown, glabrous, and shin- 
ing when dry, reticulate, compressed, 1.3 to 1.5 cm long, the 
stigma terminal. 
Sarawak, Native collector 1148 (Bur. Sci.) (type), and a specimen, 
without number, from the Sarawak Museum, marked Kuching, November, 
1905. 
A very characteristic species, readily distinguishable by its long, narrow, 
slenderly acuminate leaves; its large persistent stipules; its very long, 
simple, pistillate racemes; and its large fruits. It is apparently closely 
allied to Antidesma pachystachys Hook. f. of the Malay Peninsula. 
