BY E. D. MfiRBILL. 519 



PONTEDERIACEAE . 



MoNOCHORiA Presl . 



MoNOCHORiA VAGINALIS (Burm. f.) Presl; Merr. Enuni. Born. 

 PI. (1921^ 111. 



Kuching, s.n. Tropical Asia to Africa, Japan, and 

 Malaysia. 



LILIACEAE . 



Smilax Linnaeus. 



Smilax calophylla Wall. Cat. No. No. 5131 ; A.D.C. Monog. 

 Phan. 1 (1878) 60. 



Mount Poi, s.n., altitude about 1500 m. Malay Peninsula 

 and Sumatra, new to Borneo. 



DiANELLA Lamarck . 



DiANELLA ENSiFOLiA (liiun. DC. ; Merr. Enum. Born. PI. 

 (1921) 114. 



Mount Murud and Mount Poi, Nos. 123, 195, at and above 

 an altitude of 1500 m. Widely distributed in the Old World 

 tropics. 



ZINGIBER ACE AE. 



Hedychium Koenig. 



Hedycchium mjobergii sp. noY. § Gandasuliiim. 



Ut videtur epiphytica ; foliis cbartaceis, oblongis, acuminatis, 

 circiter 17 cm longis et 5 cm latis, acuminatis, deorsum 

 angustatis, basi cuneatis, glabris vel parcissime pilosis, nervis 

 primariis utrinque circiter 12, tenuibus, adscendentibus, indis- 

 tinctis ; petiolo circiter 1.5 cm longo ; vaginis plus minusve 

 adpresse pilosis ; ligulis anguste oblongis, obtusis, adpresse 

 pilosis, petiolo subaequantibus ; inflloescentis terminalibus, 

 cylindraceis, circiter 15 cm longis, 2 ad 2.5 cm diametro, 

 breviter pedunculatis, bracteis imbricatis, cbartaceis vel 

 membranaceis, ellipticis ad oblongo-ellipticis, circiter 3 cm 

 longis, 1.5 cm latis, rotundatis, extus perspicue adpresse 

 ferrugineo-pilosis, intus glabris vel subglabris, plerumque 

 bifloris ; bracteolis circiter 1.5 cm longis; calycis tubo circiter 



