92 
The Philippine Journal of Science 
1916 
Sarawak, Matang Road, Native collector 198 (Bur. Sci.), January 3, 1911. 
Closely allied to Fordia coriacea Dunn, but distinguished by its much 
more numerous, narrower, glabrous leaflets which are acute at the base, 
and by its longer racemes. I have before me a specimen of Hose 75 on 
which Dunn’s species was in part based. 
CLITOREA Linnaeus 
CLITOREA CAJ AN I FOLIA (Presl) Benth. in Mart. FI. Bras. 15: 121. 
Sarawak, Santubong, Foxworthy 422; Tabaan, Native collector 703, 1038, 
1905 (Bur. Sci.). 
A native of Brazil, now introduced and naturalized in Siam, the Malay 
Peninsula, Singapore, and Java; new to Borneo. 
CAN AVAL! A DeCandolle 
CAN AVALI A LINEATA (Thunb.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 404. 
Sarawak, Buntal, Native collector 1636 (Bur. Sci.); Baram District, 
Hose 54, 605, January and April, 1895. 
A littoral species of wide tropical distribution, not, however, before 
definitely recorded from Borneo. 
CAESALPINIA Linnaeus 
CAESALPINIA CRISTA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 380 (C. bonduc L., C. bondu- 
cella Flem.). 
Sarawak, Santubong, Native collector 2213 (Bur. Sci.), along the sea- 
shore. Tropics of the world. 
DESMODIUM Desvaux 
DESMODIUM GYRO! DES (Roxb.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 326. 
Sarawak, Native collector 1410, 2025 (Bur. Sci.) ; Baram District, Miri 
River, Hose 515, January, 1895. 
New to Borneo. India to Formosa, southward to New Guinea. 
DESMODIUM UMBELLATUM (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 325. 
Sarawak, Native collector 1045, 1620, 2210 (Bur. Sci.) ; Baram District, 
Hose 264, December, 1894. 
New to Borneo; along tropical shores, Mascarene Islands and India to 
southern China, northern Australia, and Polynesia. 
DESMODIUM TRIFOLIASTRUM Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I 1 (1855) 248. 
Sarawak, foot of Mount Santubong, Native collector 2319 (Bur. Sci.), 
February-June, 1914. 
Perak, Java, Mindanao, and New Guinea, probably also in other islands 
of the Malay Archipelago; new to Borneo. 
FLACOURTIACEAE 
CASEARIA Jacquin 
CASEARI A ELLI PTI FOLIA sp. nov. 
Arbor, foliis firme chartaceis, ellipticis, nitidis, subtus ad costa 
nervisque leviter pubescentibus, usque ad 11 cm longis, integris, 
basi acutis vel subacutis, apice late obtuse acuminatis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 8, prominentibus ; floribus axillaribus, fascicu- 
