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When alive, the colour was a brhht green above, but now, 

 in spirit, a dark slate-grey with a purplish hue, with numerous 

 minute white dots, isolated or in groups. There are five very 

 conspicuous white spots on the upper surface of the thigh, one of 

 them close to its origin, the other four a little lower down, 

 arranged in a square. The flanks are whitish, veined with black, 

 as in the Bornean specimen, the lower surface is a yellowish 

 white. The enormous interdigital membranes are black near 

 their base, but yellowish towards the edges, with yellow rays 

 going into the black portion. 



The specimen is male, its testes being very large, 15 mm. 

 in length. The Bornean specimen was female, whilst there is no 

 record of the sex of the Perak specimen. 



Its lensrth from snout to vent is 84 mm.-, against 80 mm. in 

 the case of the Bornean and 98 mm. in the Perak specimen. 



The Flying Frog of which Wallace (Malay Archipelago. 

 10th edition, p.30) gives such a graphic description, is Rhacopho- 

 r us partialis and occurs in Borneo and the Philippines, whilst a 

 third Malayan species, Rh. reinivardtii, occurs in Java and Suma- 

 tra. Very similar species are found in Malabar (Rh. malabari- 

 sw), the Eastern Himalayan region (Rh. bimacidatiis) and Mada- 

 gascar (Rh. madagascariensis). 



Some New Eastern Gingers. 



The following new species of Scitaminea? have passed 

 through my hands since writing the paper published in Journal 

 No. 32 and do not appear to be described in Schumann's paper. 

 Alpinia pectinata n. sp. Plant 4 to 7 feet tall. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate glabrous thinly coriaceous, blade 20 inches long 4 

 inches wide with a thick keel, ocrea obtuse. Panicle pendulous 

 secund, with a long thick peduncle, dense with short crowded 

 branches. Bracts many obconic half an inch long papery brown. 

 Flowers pedicelled, pedicels in fruit : -J inch long. Capsule 

 globose trilocular -J inch long. Seeds very numerous. 



Celebes at Gunong Klabat 1300 to 1600 metres elevation, 

 fruiting in January. 



A remarkable plant in its one sided panicle with very short 

 branches bearing heads crowded together, about 100 in a panicle. 



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