xi, c, 2 Merrill: Notes on the Flora of Borneo 81 
escent, 1 cm long or less. Racemes terminal, solitary, sometimes 
with one or two short basal branches, all parts densely pubescent, 
the pedicels slender, up to 5 cm in length. Buds clove-shaped, 
densely pubescent, the tube cylindric, slender, 8 to 10 mm long, 
the limb ovoid. Sepals oblong-ovate, obscurely acuminate, about 
8 mm long. Petals externally slightly appressed-ciliate, obovate, 
about 16 mm long, the limb broad, rounded, up to 14 mm wide, 
the claw stout, 2 to 4 mm long, base slightly narrowed, rounded. 
Fertile stamens three, stout, glabrous, about 10 mm long; 
anthers suborbicular, 2 mm in diameter; sterile filaments seven, 
6 to 7 mm in length. Ovary oblong, appressed ferruginous- 
pubescent especially in the lower part and along the margins, 
glabrous above; style short, glabrous. 
Sarawak, Baram District, Marudi, Hose 254, June 12, 1895. 
A species belonging in the group with Bauhinia pyrrhaneura Korth., but 
with shorter petioles, fewer nerves, and obscure reticulations. It also resem- 
bles Bauhinia bidentata Jack, but differs from that species in many 
characters. 
BAUHINIA MEGALANTHA sp. nov. § Phanera. 
Frutex scandens ramulis infloreseentiis floribusque dense ad- 
presse ferrugineo-tomentosis ; foliis chartaceis, late ellipticis, 
9- vel 11-nerviis, usque ad 10 cm longis, basi late rotundatis, 
foliolis usque ad f connatis, apice rotundatis ; infloreseentiis ter- 
minalibus, racemosis, paucifloris, floribus magnis, usque ad 
8 cm longis, longe pedicellatis, sepalis petalisque extus dense 
ferrugineo-tomentosis. 
A scandent shrub, the younger parts and the inflorescence 
densely ferruginous-pubescent with short, appressed hairs. 
Branches terete, brown, becoming quite glabrous. Leaves broad- 
ly elliptic, chartaceous, 7 to 10 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, the 
upper surface brownish-pruinose when dry, quite glabrous, the 
lower paler and appressed-pubescent with scattered, short, 
brownish hairs, base broadly rounded, sometimes very shallowly 
cordate, 9- or 11-nerved, apex cleft about one-fifth to the base, 
the lobes rounded, the sinus very narrow, the midrib excurrent 
as a slender, somewhat pubescent, 4 to 5 mm long mucro; pe- 
tioles slender, 3 to 5 cm long. Racemes terminal, solitary, few- 
flowered, the axis 8 to 20 cm long, and with the pedicels, calyx, 
and petals densely appressed ferruginous-pubescent with short 
hairs, the pedicels about 5 cm in length. Buds widely clavate, 
the tube cylindric, slightly gibbous at the base, 1.5 to 2 cm long, 
rather abruptly enlarged at the base of the oblong, acute limb. 
Sepals 4.5 to 5 cm long, about 8 mm wide, coriaceous, acuminate, 
at least twice as long as the tube. Petals subequal, about 5 
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