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Alpinia Fraseriayia Oliver. 



Baram mouth, Jan. 1895 ; no. 61. 



Endemic. 



Clinogyne grandis Baker. 



Baram, April 18, 1895 ; no. 696. 



Dioscorea damona Roxb. 



North Celebes, Minahasa district; no. 801. 



D. pyrifolUi Kunth. 

 - Baram", Dec. 1894 ; no. 80. 



S mil ax leucophylla Bl. 



North Celebes, Minahasa district ; no. 823. 



S. odoratissima Bl. 



Baram district, Mt. Skiwa, 1-2000 ft., Dec. 1894 ; no. 442. 



DraccBna f/raminifolia Wall. 



Baram district, iVliri river, Jan. 1895 ; no. 527. 



D. angusti folia Roxb. 



Baram district, Miri river, Jan, 1895 ; no. 542. 



DianeUa ensi folia Red. 



Baram, Nov. 1894 ; no. 150. 



Moiiochoria hastcefoUa Presl. 



Baram district, Miri river, Feb. 1895 ; no. 508. 



Forrestia )narginata Hassk. 



Baram district, Entoyut river, Nov. 1894 ; no. 370. 



Flagellana indica L. 



Baram, Dec. 1894, no. 166 ; Miri, April 28, 1895, no. 609. 



Pinanga lepidota, sp. nov. Palma ut apparet elegans, inter- 

 nodiis rubro-puuctulatis ; frondibns flabellatis, suboblongis, mar- 

 ginibus subparallelis, apice alte bifidis, lobis subtruncatis, grosse 

 dentatis, costulis in utroque latere circa 14 percursis ; infra basin 

 attenuatam cum segmento angusto lanceolate acuminato distanti 

 utrinque suffultis ; petiolo et rliachi junioribus albido-lepidotis ; 

 vagina tubulosa, ore obliqua, tenniter striata, lepidoto-puberula ; 

 spadice simplici, glabro, erecto ; fructibus distichis l»te brimeis. 



Tiie frond consists of a large terminal portion, broadening very 

 slightly upwards, 25-26 cm. long by 10-5 cm. broad just below the 

 apical nicision, which is 10-11 cm. deep ; the lower small pair of 

 segments are 2-3-ribbed, 12-14 cm. long, and l'3-l-5 cm. broad; 

 they are subopposite, and situated about 4 cm. below the large^ 

 segment. In one leaf there is but one lower segment, the larc^e 

 segment being asymmetrical, the larger side on which there is no 

 lower segment containing 18 lateral ribs. Petioles Q'6 cm. long. 

 The hairs on the petiole and rachis of the younger leaves are flat 

 and whitish, with a few narrower red ones interspersed ; a slightly 

 raised line between each of the lateral ribs of the leaf-blade is 

 sparsely covered with similar small narrow reddish scale-hairs. 

 On the sheaths the scale-hairs consist of a flat red portion, breakin<^ 

 up at the margin into flexuose whitish hairs. On the young sheaths 

 the naarginal hairs are closely packed laterally, forming a scale-like 

 covering ; in the older they spread irregularly, giving a puberulous 



