BY HENRY N. RIDLEY. 
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long, with two or three lanceolate linear acute red hairy 
bracts. Sepals ovate obtuse, hairy on the edge. Outer petals 
lanceolate acuminate obtuse, hairy, 1 cm. long; glabrous 
within. Inner petals broader, lanceolate obtuse, shorter, 
8 mm. long. Stamens fairly numerous, short; appendage 
suborbicular, rather large flat glabrous. Ripe carpels ellip¬ 
tic, 12 cm. long; 7 cm. shortly beaked, stalk 12 mm. long. 
Sarawak: Luridu on Mt. Gading (Haviland, 982) ; 
Gomong Rantau (Korthals). 
Goniothalamus parallelovenius , n. sp. 
Leaf large, oblong, slightly narrowed towards the base ; 
apex cuspidate obtuse, base rounded, thinly coriaceous 
glabrous ; nerves, thirty-six pairs, parallel, conspicuously 
elevate beneath, inarching within the margins ; midrib 
rounded. Flower large, on a rather stout pedicel 2*5 cm. 
long. Sepals coriaceous triangular, obtuse, 6 mm. long, 
5 mm. across at the base. Outer petals coriaceous narrow, 
lanceolate acuminate obtuse, minutely mealy hairy, 6*5 cm. 
long, 1 cm. wide; base dilate, 5 mm. long. Inner petals 
broadly lanceolate, narrowed at the base, obtuse, 4 cm. 
long, 12 mm. wide. Stamens narrow, linear 8 mm. long 
with a narrow conic erect scabrid appendage. 
Sarawak (Beccari, 8772). 
This appears to be most nearly allied to G. uvarioides , 
King, differing in its much larger flowers and long inner 
petals. The leaf resembles closely that of G. Curtisii, 
King. I have only seen one leaf and a detached flower. 
Goniothalamus uvarioides , King, l. c . 78. 
Borneo (Motley, 960). Not seen. 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula. 
Goniothalamus fasciculatus, Boerl., Ic. Bogor. lix. 
Central Borneo (Jaheri). Not seen. 
Endemic. 
Goniothalamus Ridleyi, King, is stated by Boerlage to 
have been collected in Borneo by Beccari ( sub Ic. lix.). 
I have not seen it. 
Mitrephora humilis , Miq., El. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 81. M. Main- 
gayi, Hook. fil. & Thoms., FI. Br. Ind. i. 77 var. Kurzii. 
Sarawak: Mt. Koum limestone (Haviland, 1716) ; 
Baram (Hose, 98). 
British North Borneo: Kinabalu, Dakombang (Haviland, 
1811). 
S.E. Borneo (Korthals), 
