Among some material at the Philippine National Herbarium, Manila, which was recently made available for study at the Rijksherbarium, there was a Terminalia which was already in the early fifties recognized as new by both Dr E. Quisumbing and the late Dr E. D. Merrill. Unfortunately, the material was not available when Mr A. W. Exell revised the Combretaceae for the Flora Malesiana (ser. I, vol. 4: 548. 1954) and it remained unpublished. After a close study with Mr Exell’s revision, and by comparison of all Malesian species represented in the Rijksherbarium, it proved indeed to be a new species. Unfortunately its fruit is still unknown.