BY HENEY N. EIDLEY. 
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Oxymitra oxyphylla , Miq., L c. 29. 
8.E. Borneo: Danau Baliay, Banau Kambat, Muara 
Karrau (Korthals). 
Endemic. Not seen. 
Oxymitra Korthalsiana , Miq., 1. c. 
S.E. Borneo : Banju-wiran (Korthals). 
Endemic. 
Oxymitra diadema, Miq., 1. c. 31. 
S.E. Borneo : Sakumbang (Korthals). 
Endemic. Not seen. 
Oxymitra excisa , Miq., 1. c. 82. 
Sarawak: Kuching (Haviland, 2216, 2103). 
Distrib. Bangka (Teysmann); Sumatra (Korthals). 
The type specimen from Sumatra of this curious plant 
has narrow leaves, glaucous beneath, as in the original de¬ 
ception. In Haviland’s and Teysmann’s they are very 
much larger, 15 cm. long, 10 cm. wide, oblong obovate and 
retuse, or broadly truncate. The glaucous colouring of 
the under side is almost invisible from the covering of red 
tomentum. In Haviland’s 2216 a ridge runs down the 
stem on each side from the juncture of the petiole, meeting- 
15 mm. below, and from the point of meeting springs the 
flower. In the other specimens and part of this one these 
ribs are not or hardly detectible, and the flowers are much 
closer to the petiole. The large ribbed bract close to the 
flower and the ribbed calyx increasing much in size after 
the fall of the petals is very peculiar. The inner petals in 
Haviland’s 2103, the only ones I have seen, are quite two- 
thirds as long as the outer ones. Miquel says one-half only. 
Otherwise his description fits this plant very well. It is 
very Melodorum- like, and has but one ovule to the carpel. 
Oxymitra linderifolia , n. sp. 
A glabrous shrub. Leaves coriaceous, smooth above, 
glaucous beneath, elliptic cuspidate acute, base rounded or 
shortly cuneate; nerves six pairs, elevated beneath ; mid¬ 
rib rounded beneath, depressed above, 15-18 cm. long, 
6-8 cm. wide; petiole 11 mm. long. Flowers solitary, 
extra-axillary, pedicels slender, 10 mm. long, with a short 
lanceolate bract in the middle. Sepals dagger-shaped, 
with a broad base narrowed to the point, 4 mm. long. Outer 
petals lanceolate linear, 9 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, fugaci- 
