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traced passing into the curious short transverse bars betw een the ribs which form tlie 

 " cancellation " or fenestration of many Scitaminea^ in Borneo and Sumatra. In this 

 form, too, the margin of the sheath in the upper part is fringed by acuminate 

 fimbriate processes as much as 3 cm. long. In the typical form there is nothing of 

 this, the sheaths are not even cancellate, nor are their margins fringed or broken up in 

 any way. The inflorescence and flowers are identical in both forms. 



The calyx and lip are gland-dotted, the stylodes fleshy, oblong, truncate, with short 

 blunt teeth, the style slender, hooked at the tip, with a very small stigma. 



Alpinia poeptheocaepa, Eidl., sp. nov. 



Caiilis altus, validus, 1'6 cm. crassus. Folia coi'iacea, oblonga, lanceolata, basi lata, 

 50 cm. longa, 15 cm. lata, bi'eviter vel vix petiolata, petiolo 1 cm. (vel minus) crasso, 

 ligula ovato-rolundata 1 cm. longa pubesceute, vagina minute cancellata pubescente. 

 Panicula terminalis, decurva, pedunculo 4 cm. longo 7 mm. crasso pubescente, 

 parte florifera 12 cm. longa, capitulis ad G appressis multi-bracteatis multifloris 

 4 cm. longis secundis. Bractece ovata?, amplectentes, pubescentes, 3 cm. longae. 

 Bracte<B secundariie, late ovatse, carinatse, mucronata?, 4 cm. longa?, 2 cm. latae, 

 coriaceae, marginibus deuticulatis hirtis, inferiorcs plures steriles. Calyx (in 

 fructu) tubo brevi 1 cm. longo sericeo in uno latere breviter fisso, lobis lanceolatis 

 acuminatis cuspidatis costatis aequilongis. Corolla tubo gracili 1"5 cm. longo, 

 lobis crassis sericeis lineari-oblongis, postico corniculato cucullato 1 cm. longo, 

 caeteris vix brevioribus. Labellum eequilongum, lineari-oblongum, obtusum, sub- 

 cymbiforme, extus sericeum. Stamen filamento brevi. Anthem dorso dense 

 sericea, appendice longo bifido sericeo. Stylus longior, stigmate late obovoideo 

 truncato. Capsula globosa, pubescens, grisea, 4 cm. longa. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. 



" Flowers yellow, fruit mangosteen colour." 



This fine plant appears to be nearest to A. macrocephala, K. Sclium., one of the two 

 plants included in his section Anioniice^is, dift'ering largely, however, in its many-bracted 

 compound inflorescence, the denticulate bracts, and the presence of an appendage to 

 the anther. The other plant given in his section Amomiceps, namely, A. capitellata. 

 Jack., has nothiijg in common with A. niactvcejihala, and is very closely allied to 

 A. Javanica, Blume. 



Alpinia pteeocarpa, K. Sebum, in EngL Pflanzenreich, H. 20, p. 322. 



Canoe Camp. 



" Eruit greenish ochre, flowers white, lip yellow." The flowers have not been 

 described previously. The following description may therefore be added here : — Ovary 

 obconic, silky. Calyx tubular, dilated, with 2 lateral teeth 2 mm. long, acuminate, hairy 

 at the tip, and a short median one, 8-9 mm. long, gland-dotted. Corolla tube shorter, 

 lobes ovate, 5 mm. long, obtiise, silky on the back and gland-dotted on the murgias. 

 Lip broadly ovate, boat-shaped and suddenly narrowed to an oblong rounded tij), 

 glabrous, gland-dotted, adnate from the base to the stamen, 7 mm. long. Statiieii 1 cm. 

 long, filament linear, with wide wings decurrent into the lip and two raised lines up the 



