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and petioles sparingly ferruginous-pubescent, the branches and 
branchlets brown or dark-brown when dry. Leaves chartaceous, 
brown and shining when dry, oblong-ovate, entire, acuminate, 7 
to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, glabrous, base broadly truncate- 
rounded and often shallowly cordate, prominently 5- or 7-nerved ; 
petioles pubescent, 1 to 2 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, a 
simple raceme or with one or two branches from the base, up 
to 7 cm in length, rather densely many-flowered, the rachis and 
pedicels appressed-pubescent with rather pale hairs, the bracts 
and bracteoles linear, pubescent. Pedicels slender, about 2 cm 
long. Buds somewhat clove-shaped, the tube slender, narrowed 
below to the pedicel, 2 to 3 mm long, the limb oblong-ovoid, 
narrowed at both ends, acute, pale-pubescent externally with 
grayish or cinereous, short hairs. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 
reflexed, about 6 mm long. Petals subequal, 7 to 8 mm long, 
oblong-obovate to oblong-spatulate, much crisped, obtuse, base 
narrowed, acute, rather densely pale appressed-pilose externally, 
the claw 1 to 2 mm long. Fertile stamens 3; filaments slender, 
glabrous, about 6 mm long; anthers broadly ellipsoid, 1.7 mm 
long. Ovary shortly stipitate, inequilateral, oblong, densely pale- 
hirsute, about 4 mm long, much shorter than the style, which is 
glabrous above, hirsute below. 
Sarawak, Native collector 199 (Bur. Sci.). 
Well characterized by its entire, acuminate, glabrous leaves; its densely 
flowered inflorescence; pointed buds, the tube short, gradually narrowed to 
the pedicel; and its densely hirsute ovaries. It does not seem to be closely 
allied to any other Bornean species. 
BAUHINIA HOSEI sp. nov. § Phanera. 
Frutex scandens partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque dense 
cupreo-ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis, 
in siccitate brunneis, usque ad 9 cm longis, basi 5-nerviis, 
cordatis, apice acuminatis retusisque; inflorescentiis racemosis, 
floribus longe pedicellatis ; petalis extus parce ferrugineo-pubes- 
centibus, obovatis, usque ad 16 mm longis, rotundatis; antheris 
circiter 2 mm diametro; ovario deorsum dense piloso, sursum 
glabro. 
A scandent shrub, the younger parts and inflorescence densely 
pubescent with short, mostly appressed, shining, cupreous- 
ferrugineous hairs. Branches brown, smooth, glabrous, terete. 
Leaves thickly coriaceous, oblong-ovate, 7 to 9 cm long, 4 to 
5.5 cm wide, base rounded, prominently cordate, 5-nerved, apex 
acuminate, the acumen slightly retuse, the upper surface quite 
glabrous, the lower surface similar in color, pubescent on the 
nerves, ultimately glabrous or nearly so; petioles densely pub- 
