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CONTRIBUTIONS TO A FLORA OF BORNEO. 
Xylopia oxyantha, Hook. fil. & Thoms., 1. c. 85, 
Sarawak: Kuching (Haviland, 1966). 
The leaves are more coriaceous than in the type. The 
fruit is ellipsoid, blunt, narrowed at the base, 3*5 cm. 
long, 1*5 cm. wide, very unlike that of X. ferruginea t which 
is otherwise closely allied. 
Distrib. Singapore. 
Xylopia ferruginea , Hook. fil. & Thoms., 1. c. 85. 
Sarawak (Beccari, 8488): Baram, Morudi (Hose, 261). 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula. 
Xylopia congesta , n. sp. 
Glabrescent; leaves lanceolate, shortly acuminate, base 
shortly narrowed, thinly coriaceous, glabrous above except 
the depressed mid vein, which is obscurely pubescent; 
nerves eleven pairs, obscurely pubescent, transverse nerves 
and reticulations invisible, 8-9 cm. long, 3J cm. long, 
petiole 4 mm. Flowers in tufts in knots on the old wood, 
pedicels 1 cm. long, pubescent. Sepals very small, rounded, 
1 mm. long, pubescent. Outer petals linear from a broader 
base, 3 cm. long, 1 mm. wide. Inner ones similar, hardly 
pubescent, drying black. Stamens numerous, appendage 
irregularly rounded, depressed in the centre. Carpels 
rather numerous. 
Sarawak (Beccari, 2654). 
Allied to X. Scortechinii , King, but much smaller in all 
parts. 
Xylopia coriifolia , n. sp. 
Branches stout. Leaves elliptic rounded obtuse at the 
tip or obovate, narrowed at the base, very coriaceous, 
shining nerves faint above, inconspicuous beneath, seven 
or eight pairs inarching within the margin, intermediate 
nerves nearly as prominent, all very fine, 11-13 cm. long, 
4-5 cm. wide, petiole 5 mm. long, stout. Flowers few, 
2 or 3, in extra-axillary tufts, pedicels 1 cm. long. Sepals 
ovate acute, glabrous, 2 mm. long. Petals lanceolate, silky. 
Carpels cylindric, narrowed at the base, 6 cm. long, 7 mm. 
across, on a pedicel 15 mm. long. 
Sarawak: Kuching (Haviland & Hose, 3337) ; (Hose, 
1906); (Beccari, 2652, 3335). 
In all these the flowers are too young to be fully de¬ 
scribed, but the plant is very distinct in its coriaceous 
obovate leaves, and long fruit, like that of X. ferruginea . 
