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as illustrated in Figs, i and 2. These labels are printed in red 

 ink and are attached to the herbarium sheet immediately above 

 the herbarium label. 



Fig. I. Label for type specimens (original label in red ink). 



Fig. 2. Label for cotype specimens (original label in red ink). 



Recently it has been my privilege to work up two large col- 

 lections of plants from outside of the Philippines, the material 

 collected by the late Dr. C. B. Robinson in Amboina, to illustrate 

 the species figured and described in Rumphius's Herbarium Am- 

 boinense, and an extensive collection made on Mount Kinabalu, 

 British North Borneo, by Chaplain and Mrs. Clemens and Mr. 

 Topping. Both localities are "classical" regions in Mala^'an 

 botany, and naturally the collections from both places are very 

 rich in topotypes. In working up this material, wherever the 

 specimens agreed perfectly with the original descriptions of 

 species based by various authors on Amboina or Kinabalu speci- 

 mens, such specimens have received the special topotype label 

 as shown by Fig. 3. This topotype label is printed in green ink, 

 to distinguish it at once from t>^pe and cot^^pe soecimens. For 

 all practical purposes these topotypes are nearly as valuable as 



