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sessile. Pistils rounded rhomboid. Style short but dis- 

 tinct and columnar. Stigma discoid. 



Sarawak Saribas (Haviland 2089). 



July 1892. Endemic. 



Raphidophora. 

 Species with entire leaves. 



R. Lobbii, Schott Bonplandia V. p. 45. Borneo (Korthals). 

 Common in the Malay Peninsula. 



R. sylvestris, Engler Prodr 239. Sarawak (Beccari), and var 

 obtusata, same collector. 



Distrib. Java, New Guinea, 



R. Peepla, Schott. Bonplandia V. 1857 p. 45. Kapuas River 

 at Tutnbangtliang (Grabowski). 



Distrib. India, Ceylon and Moluccas. 



R. minor, Hook, fil, Sarawak, Kuching scrambling over bushes 

 near the river. Common in the Malay Peninsula. 



R. migrcscens, n. sp. 



Stem woody stout flexuous § inch through angled, 

 internodes 1^ inch long. Leaf coriaceous drying black, 

 blade oblong lanceolate acuminate somewhat oblique, base 

 rounded 7 inches long by 2 wide, nerves very fine and 

 close, primary ones not distinct, petiole 3 inches long 

 grooved rather slender hardly winged at all. Knee 

 short and thick. Peduncle stout '^-3 inches woody. 

 Spathe not seen, spadix 3 inches long very thick cylindric 

 blunt. Pistils rounded 6 angled at the tip. Style none. 

 Stigma round sunk, pulvinate. 



Sarawak, Matang (Ridley, Bartlett). 



Bartlett's specimens have narrower more lanceolate 

 leaves, but it is evidently the same plant and from the 

 same locality. 



R. A. Soc, No 44, 1905. 



