BY HENRY N. RIDLEY. 
98 
Outer petals 2*5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide at the base, rather 
abruptly narrowed, linear obtuse, red, hairy. Inner petals 
very short, lanceolate, glabrous, acuminate, 5 mm. long. 
Stamens with the appendage prolonged backwards, de¬ 
pressed in the centre. 
Sarawak: Kuching (Haviland, 8141, 3151). 
This is, I think, certainly a Melodorum and not a Xylopia , 
as it is clearly a climber. The leaves are very remarkable 
in being small ovate, with two glands at the base close to 
the petiole. 
Melodorum Kentii, Hook. fil. & Thoms., 1. c. 116. Mitrella 
Kentii, Miq., 1. c. 39. 
Sarawak (Beccari, 2268, 3740). 
S.E. Borneo : Sakumbang (Korthals). 
Distrib. Java. 
Xylopia malayana , Hook. fil. & Thoms., 1. c. 125. 
Sarawak: Kuching (Haviland, 1842). 
British North Borneo: Kudat (Fraser, 114); Paku-Paku, 
Labuk Bay (Ridley, 9059). 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. 
Xylopia stenopetala, Oliver, Ic. PL 1568. 
Sarawak : Penkulu Ampat (Haviland, b, p, m, d); Bau 
( 2022 ). 
Distrib. Penang. 
Xylopia fusca, Maingay in Hook, fil., FI. Brit. Ind. i. 85. 
Sarawak (Beccari, 555). 
Xylopia Ridleyi, King, L c. 121. 
Sarawak: Sadong (Haviland, 856). 
Distrib. Singapore. 
Xylopia mucronata , Boerlage, 1c. Bogor. ii. Ixxv. 
Sarawak (Beccari, 1579, 1578, 1588, 1487) : Kuching 
(Haviland, 1009) ; swampy jungle near Kuching (Havi¬ 
land, 414). 
Haviland says this is a climber, and the petals are 
yellowish. 
