BY HENRY N. RIDLEY. 
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pairs, 9-11 cm. long, 2*5-5 cm. wide ; petiole stout, 5 mm. 
long. Inflorescence terminal, panicled, 9-14 cm. long, 
branches 5 cm. long, all rufous-tomentose. Bracts lanceo¬ 
late acute, 1 mm. long. Pedicels 1 cm. long. Buds ovoid. 
Sepals ovate triangular, 2 mm. long. Outer petals ovate 
subacuminate obtuse, red-hairy outside, pale tomentose 
within, 8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide. Inner petals about as 
long, thick keeled, tips fugaciously hairy. Stamens oblong, 
few, short; appendage subtriangular, beaked, shining olive 
brown. Carpels rather few, covered with long red hairs, 
apices glabrous. 
Sarawak: Kuching (Haviland, 1845). 
This species is near M. litsecefolium, King, but differs in 
its larger flowers and the red tomentum, and the different 
form of the stamens. 
Melodorum fagifolium, n. sp. 
Glabrescent, branches red-scurfy. Leaves ovate to 
elliptic or oblong; apex blunt or shortly cuspidate, base 
rounded, above feebly scurfy, beneath more scurfy, pale ; 
nerves red-scurfy, inconspicuous above, prominent beneath, 
not inarching, nine pairs, 7-10 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide ; 
petiole black, red-scurfy, 15 mm. long. Panicles short, 
subterminal, lax, red-scurfy, 7 cm. Bracts small, 1 mm., 
lanceolate ovate. Pedicels 7 mm. long. Buds long conic, 
3-angled, blunt, tapering. Sepals ovate, 2 mm. Outer 
petals lanceolate, outside red-scurfy, 1 cm. long. Inner 
petals shorter, lanceolate, glabrous. Stamens in four 
whorls; appendage rounded, not beaked, convex, glabrous. 
Pistils few, hairy. 
Sarawak: Entoyut River (Hose, 897). 
Allied to M, litsecefolia , King, but with very glabrous 
leaves only, red-scurfy, and that somewhat thinly. 
Melodorum rubiginosum, var. 
Sarawak River (Haviland, 5); near Kuching (877); 
(Beccari, 1410, 1041); Haviland & Hose (3336). 
I am not quite certain of the identification of all of these, 
as they are only in young bud or fruits. The leaves are 
very glabrous, and the fruit wrinkled and velvety. They 
resemble, however, the var. oblonga of King, 
Melodorum rigidum , n. sp. 
A climber, with black branches. Leaves coriaceous, 
elliptic cuspidate, base rounded, above smooth, midrib 
