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points. The lip is as usual very small, and deeply bifid, each 

 lobe consisting of a thin outer rounded wing while the inner 

 edge is more fleshy and prolonged into a short blunt point. 



Owing to the iDoomess of the materia! to hand several other 

 specimens of Zingiberacese could not be specifically determined. 



Family MARANTACE^. 

 (H. N. Ridley, C.M.G., M.A., F.R.S.) 



Donax cannaeformis Ridl. Sogeri. Common all over the 

 eastern islands. 



Cominsia Guppyi Hemsl. Between Sogeri and Javararie. 

 I am inclined to agree with Schumann that Cominsia Guppyi 

 Hemsl. and C. gigantea are the same species. 



Phrynium capitatum Willd. Sogeri. A common plant. 

 In fruit only. The species is recorded from Lidia, Cochin 

 China, China, and Java, but I am doubtful as to whether the 

 Malay plant is not distinct from the Indian one. 



Phacelophrynium Whitei Ridl. (n. sp.) 



Caules gracilis 30 cm. longis vel ultra. Folium lanceolatum 

 acuminatum basi subacuto subinsequilaterum 24 cm. longum. 

 7'5 cm. latum petiolo 10 cm. longo. Pedunculus 10 cm. longus 

 gracilis panicula 6 cm. longa ; ramis paucis congestis. Bractese 

 lanceolatse siccse 8 mm. longa, vel minora. Flores parvi vero- 

 similiter albi, pedicellis 2 mm. longis ad 1 cm. crescentibus. 

 Ovarium oblongum j^ubescens 1 mm. longum. Sepala 3 mm. 

 longa late lanceolata acuminata. Corolla tubo sepalis sequi- 

 longo lobis late oblongis obtusis, recurvis. Labellum obovatum 

 rotundatum, integrum. Anthera linearis. 



Mekeo District (807). 



A small-sized jDlant wdth a short many-spiked dense 

 panicle. The whole flower 1 cm. long. Allied to an undescribed 

 Borneo species. Though the inflorescence in these plants is 

 much smaller than in tj'pical PhacelojjhrijniiDn, I think that 

 as far as its structure goes it is best to keep them in this genus. 



The collection also includes specimens of some other Marantacese 

 which owing to poorness of material could not b3 specifically determined. 



Monophrynium sp. Mafulu (420). A fruiting specimen of 

 a large plant with broad cut-up leaves as in Phryniamfissifolium 

 Ridl. The fruit resembles that of Monophrynium fasciculatum 

 Schum., but is less acutely angled. The specimen is too 



R.S. — C. 



