scattered hairs; nerves very prominent lieneatli, curved upwards, about 8 on 
eacli side of the midrib, the reticulations also rather prominent; petioles densely 
fulvous pilose, 2 nun. long or less; stipules densely fulvous pilose, laciniately 
divided into 5 to 8 linear segments about 5 nun. long. Flowers sessile, minute, 
1 to 3 in each leaf axil, completely surrounded by the laciniate, pubescent bracts. 
Fruit light blue, fcetid, subglobose, about 5 mm. iu diameter, crowned by the 
very short calyx teeth ; pyrenes 4, triquetrous, 2 mm. long, 1 mm. thick, rounded 
at the apex, the base somewhat pointed. 
(2088 Borden) November; (0997 Elmer) November. On exposed ridges in 
the mos.sy forest at about 1,050 m. 
2. Lasianthus obliquinervis Merrill, sp. nov. 
A shrub 2 to 5 in. high. Branches dark brown or nearl 3 r black when diy, 
[>uberulent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 10 to 10 cm. 
long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, glabrous and shining above, beneath pubescent on the 
nerves and midrili the apex sharpl_v acute or acuminate, the base somewhat 
inequilateral, rather abruptlj^ acute; nerves 5 to 0 on each side of the midrib, 
curved, strongly ascending, prominent beneath, the reticulations subparallel ; 
petioles pubescent, 1 to 1.5 cm. long; stipules obloug-ovate acute or acuminate, 
pubescent, about 6 mm. long, caducous. Flowers white, fascicled, 3 to 5 or 0 in 
each axil, ebracteate. Calj'.x pubescent, 3 to 4 mm. long, funnel-shaped, 5 to 0 
toothed, the teeth triangular, acute, about 1 mm. long. Corolla more or less pubes- 
cent, 1 cm. long, the tube about 0 mm. long, 5-lobed, the lobes oblong, acute, pubes- 
cent on both surfaces, about 4 mm. long. Stamens 5, the anthers sessile, included, 
about 1.5 mm. long. Style about 5 mm. long, glabrous. Fruit blue, foetid, sub- 
globose, somewhat pubescent, 0 or 7 mm. in diameter, each with about (1 trique- 
trous, p_vrenes about 4 mm. long. 
(247 Whit.ford) May; (1584, 2080 Borden) August, November; (2212 Meyer) 
December; (0802 Elmer) Noyember; (3296, 3703 Merrill) October, January; 
(0050, 0055, 0157 Leiberg) July. In forests and on exposed ridges 800 to 
1,200 m., abundant. Identified bj' Mr. Elmer in herb, as Lasianthus lucidiis 
Blume.- 
3. L. sp. 
(209, 319 Mhitford) May; (1580 Borden) August; (3770, 3893 Merrill) Jan- 
uary, August. With the preceding. Lasianthus lucidtis Elmer in herb., in part, 
non Blume. 
4. L. sp. (?) 
(0837 Elmer) November; (2084 Borden) November. In forests at 800 m. 
Identified by Mr. Elmer as Lasianthus Iccvigatus Blume, but the fruit with two 
pyrenes. Specimens in fniit only. 
23. AMARACARPUS Blume. 
1. A. pubescens Blume; (Micp FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1850) 304. 
(2837 Meyer) March; (1193 Whilford) March; (3194 J/erri//.) October; (0975 
Elmer) November. On exposed ridges in the mossy forest above 1,200 m. Java. 
24. MYRMECODIA .Tack. 
1. M. echinata Gaud.; Beccari, Malesia 2 (1884) 113. t. 32. f. //-!). 
{Dfcrrill) .January; (1144 Whitford) March. Epihpytic, mossj' forest on ex- 
])osed ridges 900 to 1 ,000 m. 
From the material available 1 am unable to separate this form from Gaudi- 
ehaud’s species which is known from the Islands of Aru and Rawak of the 
Mahqyan Archipelago. 
