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species, S. kingii, 6 the filaments are drawn, apparently by error, as united 
at the base. With this probable error corrected, and the number of 
ovules indicated as one in each instead of two, there remains no 
essential difference between Scortechinia and Alcinaeanthus ; and, in fact, 
the Philippine species seems to be very closely allied to the Malayan ones. 
The type of the genus, Scortechinia kingii Hook. f. is described as 
having leaves without basal glands, at least the glands are not mentioned 
in the description nor shown in the figure. In a second species, S. 
nicobarica Hook, f., the basal glands are present. 
In addition to the Philippine species mentioned above, the genus presents 
the following forms: 
SCORTECHINIA PARVIFOLIA (Merr.) comb. nov. 
Alcinaeanthus parvifolius Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1914) Bot. 
461. 
Philippines. 
SCORTECHINIA KINGII Hook. f. Ic. PI. Ill 8 (1887) pi. 1706; FI. Brit. 
Ind. 5 (1887) 366. 
Perak, Malacca, Borneo. 
SCORTECHINIA NICOBARICA Hook. f. Ic. PI. Ill 8 (1887) sub pi. 1706, 
nomen; FI. Brit. Ind. 5 (1887) 367. 
SCORTECHINIA FORBESII Hook. f. Ic. PI. Ill 8 (1887) sub pi. 1706, 
nomen. 
This last species seems never to have been described. 
New Guinea. 
SEBASTIAN A Sprengel 
SEBASTtANA CHAMAELA (Linn.) Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 s 
(1866) 1175, var. ASPEROCCA (F.-Muell.) Pax & Hoffm. in Engl. 
Pflanzenreich 52 (1912) 117. 
Sarawak, Santubong, Native collector 2359 (Bur. Sci.), February- 
June, 1914. 
The species is new to Borneo; India and Ceylon to Kwantung southward 
to northern Australia, with another variety in tropical Africa. Cuming 
232U, reported from the Philippines by Pax and K. Hoffmann, was from 
Malacca, not from the Philippines; the species has not been found in the 
Philippines. 
TRIGONOPLEURA Hooker f. 
TRIGONOPLEURA BORNEENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor, ramulis petiolis subtus foliis ad costa nervisque flori- 
busque pubescentibus ; foliis oblongis, coriaceis, acuminatis, 
usque ad 15 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 11, prominentibus ; 
floribus $ fasciculatis, pedicellatis, sepalis extus dense griseo- 
puberulis ; petalis oblongo-spatulatis, apice rotundatis, basi longe 
angustatis, 4.5 mm longis, ferrugineo-villosis, columna sursum 
incrassata. 
A tree, the branchlets, petioles, and leaves beneath on the costa 
Hook. f. Ic. PI. Ill 8 (1887) pi. 1076, fig. 3. 
