218 CXLIX. SOITAMINEE. (J. G. Baker) ` [Gaetrochilu:. 
4. G. tillandsioides, Baker; perennial, stem 0, leaves distinctly 
petioled, flowers many in a long subsessile spike with imbricate bracts, 
staminodes linear-oblong not longer than the corolla-segments. 
?PERAK ; Kunstler. 
Leaves 6-8 in., oblong, subacute, base rounded, green above, purplish beneath, 
petiole nearly or quite as long as the blade. Spike 6 in. ; bracts 20-30, oblong, about 
1 in. Staminodes }-} in., whitish, similar to the corolla-segments in shape an 
size; lip orbicular-cuneate, 4 in. long and broad, pure white with a faint yellow spot 
at the throat; stamen half as long as the lip; filament as long as the anther.— 
Described from a specimen cultivated in Hort. Culcutt. 
5. G. rubrolutea, Baker; perennial, leafy stem produced, leaves 
oblong caudate sessile or shortly petioled, flowers many, spike very narrow 
terminal on the stem or on a radical scape, corolla-tube not longer than the 
bract, staminodes yellow rather longer than the red corolla-seginents. 
Knuasia Hints; J. D. H. & T. T., Clarke. . 
Leafy stem 4-1 ft. or more. Leaves 6-8 in. narrowed to the base, Spike 2-3 in., 
as long as its peduncle or scape, much narrower and fewer flowered than 1n 
pulcherrima ; bracts few, small, closely sheathing the scape. Corolla-segments 
lin.; staminodes yellow, 1 in. broad; stamen nearly as long as the staminodes ; 
lip oblong-cuneate, panduriform, upper half red, lower yellow. 
6. G. parvula, Wall. Cat. 6590; annual, stem short, leaves small 
shortly petioled oblong. flowers solitary from the centre of the o 
corolla-tube not longer than the bract, staminodes longer than the corolla 
segments. 
Tavoy, Gomez. fa 
A dwarf annual, with 3-4 acute membranous leaves 134-2 in. long at the top itl 
short stem. Root-jibres all slender. Bract green, under 1 in., wrapped tig li d 
round the corolla-tube, its base hidden by the sheath of the uppermost leaf, Coro is 
segments linear-oblong, greenish, 4 in.; lip 4 in., obovate-cuneate; stamen arcua 
half as long as the lip. Habit of a Kampferia of the Sincorus section. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN AND UNDESCRIBED SPECIES. t 
G.? TILIÆFOLIA, Baker; annual, root-fibres slender fascicled, leafy stem shor 
leaves 4-5 by 3 in. distinctly petioled ovate cuspidate, base oblique, spike 4-5 te 
terminal, sessile dense-fid., bracts 1-1} in., oblong-lanceolate scariose imbri 
corolla-tube as long as the bract, segments lanceolate under an inch, stam!D ica 
not longer than the segments, lip oblong-cuneate 1} in.—Kuasia HILLS, trop o 
region, Hk. f. & Thomson (Monolophus 6, Herb. Ind. Or.). I have not been able 
make out the structure of the anther. odr. 
G. AFFINIS, Wall. mss. ez, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 372; Horan. Pr 
22).— Assam. 
G. JENKINSII, Wall. mss. l. c.—Assam. (See under G. longiflora.) 
8. KÆMPFERIA, Linn. 
Rootstock often tuberous, fibres various. Stem short or 0. Leaves few 
Flowers spicate, on radical scapes, or terminating a leafy stem. de 
short, cylindric, splitting down one side. Corolla-tube long, slen si 
segments equal, usually spreading. Staminodes broad, petaloid; stani 
short, arcuate; anther-cells separated on a broad connective, which 15 Sp 
duced above into a petaloid crest, not spurred below; lip broad, bw) 
bifid. Ovary 9-celled; style long, filiform; stigma turbinate. Cap of 
oblong; pericarp thin. Seeds subglobose, aril small lacerate.— Tropic 
the Old World. 
