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CONTRIBUTIONS TO A FLORA OF BORNEO. 
ously pubescent. Inner petals in a narrow cone, 5 mm. 
long. Torus very small, hairy. Pistils conic, hairy. 
Ovules one or two, superposed. Carpels globose, 5 mm. 
long, on pedicels of equal length. 
Sarawak : Kuching (Haviland, 3B3B ; Haviland & Hose, 
3335). 
The latter specimen, in fruit only, has smaller leaves, but 
appears to belong to the same species as the flowering 
specimen. The species is allied to 0. glauca, from which 
it differs in the more coriaceous leaves, with fewer nerves, 
and the wider petals. 
MelodorumMaingayi, Hook. fil. & Thoms., l.c. 80. 
Sarawak : Santubong (Bartlett, Haviland, 1539). 
Melodorum latifolium , Hook. fil. & Thoms., I . c. 116. 
Sarawak (Beccari, 3787) ; Kuching (Haviland, 849). 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Philippines. 
Melodorum parviflorum , Scheffer, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 
xxxi. 344. 
Var. angustifolium. 
Sarawak : Kuching (Haviland). 
Not the plant referred to this species by King, which is 
described by Boerlage (Ic. Bogor. ii. 134) as M. Kingii , 
Boerl. 
Distrib. Bangka. 
Melodorum fulgens, Hook. fil. & Thoms. 1. c. 120. 
Sarawak, two miles from Kuching (Haviland, 416). 
British North Borneo : Kabun China (Creagh) ; Brunei 
(Lobb). 
W. Borneo: Sungei Landak (Teysmann). 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula, Philippines. 
Melodorum kinabaluense, Stapf, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. 
vol. iv. 130. 
British North Borneo : Mt. Kinabalu, at Penokok, at 
3000 ft. elevation (Haviland, 1310). 
Endemic. 
Melodorum paniculatum f n. sp. 
Young parts ferruginous tomentose. Leaves elliptic 
acuminate, base rounded, coriaceous, glabrous above except 
the midrib, hairy; beneath rufous-tomentose ; nerves 
prominent beneath, rufous-tomentose, eleven to twelve 
