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BUEBIDGEA. 



B. niticla, Hook. til. Bot. Mag. 1879 t. 6903. 



N. W. Borneo, Murat between the Lawas and Trusan 

 rivers (Burbidge). 



Alpinia. 



A. § Hellenia exostylis, Schum. 



Borneo no locality given (Korthals). 



A. Fraseriana, Oliver. A. rosella, Eidl. 



Brit. North Borneo ; Kudat Eidley ; Brunei Bay 

 (Bp. Hose) also in Billiton (Schumann). 



A. sumatrana, Miq. 



Borneo no loc. (Korthals). 



A. comu-cervi, n. sp. 



Leaves lanceolate acuminate 15 inches long 1| inch 

 wide glabrous petiole i inch long, ligule short truncate. 

 Panicle on an 8 inch peduncle, 12 inches long with 

 numerous short branches about \ inch long glabrous. 

 Bracts fugacious. Ovary glabrous. Calyx tube cylindric 

 as long as the corolla tube with short ovate lobes. 

 Petals short oblong blunt i inch long. Dorsal one 

 hooded lip shorter split to base, lobes narrow subbifid 

 truncate, one point shorter than the other. Stami- 

 nodes short thick, cylindric obtuse. Filament short 

 thick, anther as long, connective linear rounded. 



Sarawak no locality (J. Hewitt). 



A. reticosa, n. sp. 



Stem about 4 feet tall. Leaves lanceolate acuminate 

 18 inches long 2 inches wide hardly petioled glabrous, 

 midrib ribbed, ligule very 'large oblong rounded f inch 

 long ribbed, sheath closely reticulated with rounded 

 reticulations, all glabrous. Panicle shorter than the 



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