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 When alive, the colour was a bright green above, but now, in spirit, a dark slate-grey with a purplish hue, with numerous minute white dots, isolated or in groups. There are five very conspicuous white spots on the upper surface of the thigh, one of them close to its origin, the other four a little lower down, arranged in a square. The flanks are whitish, veined with black, as in the Bornean specimen, the lower surface is a yellowish white. The enormous interdigital membranes are black near their base, but yellowish towards the edges, with yellow rays. going into the black portion.

The specimen is male, its testes being very large, 15 mm. in length. The Bornean specimen was female, whilst there is no record of the sex of the Perak specimen.

Its length from snout to vent is 81 mm., against 80 mm. in the case of the Bornean and 98 mm. in the Perak specimen.

The Flying Frog of which Wallace (Malay Archipelago, 10th edition, p.30) gives such a graphic description, is Rhacophorus pardalis and occurs in Borneo and the Philippines, whilst a third Malayan species, ''Rh. reinwardtii'', occurs in Java and Sumatra. Very similar species are found in Malabar (Rh. malabarisus), the Eastern Himalayan region (Rh. bimaculatus) and Madagascar (Rh. madagascariensis). 



The following new species of Scitamineæ have passed through my hands since writing the paper published in Journal No. 32 and do not appear to be described in Schumann's paper. Alpinia pectinata n. sp. Plant 4 to 7 feet tall. Leaves oblong lanceolate glabrous thinly coriaceous, blade 20 inches long 4 inches wide with a thick keel, ocrea obtuse. Panicle pendulous secund, with a long thick peduncle, dense with short crowded branches. Bracts many obconic half an inch long papery brown. Flowers pedicelled, pedicels in fruit: 1/2 inch long. Capsule globose trilocular 1/2 inch long. Seeds very numerous.

Celebes at Gunong Klabat 1800 to 1600 metres elevation, fruiting in January.

A remarkable plant in its one sided panicle with very short. branches bearing heads crowded together, about 100 in a panicle.