2 54 Scitauiiiiea:. \Amomum^ 



segm. \ in., oblong, obtuse, silky dorsally ; lip oval, longer than 

 the cor.-segm. ; fil. stout, anth.-cells hairy, tips divergent, crest 

 transversely oblong, entire. 



Moist low country; very rare. I have only seen the C. P. specimens 

 from Reigam Korale, collected in 1861. FI. March. 

 Endemic. 



9. A. hypoleucum, Thw. Enum. 318 (1861). 



c. P. 3532. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 240. 



Rootstock very stout, annulate, emitting many long 

 flexuous straw-coloured, naked, spike-bearing stems, several 

 feet long; leafing stem, 4-5 ft. long and about i in. thick at the 

 base; 1. \\-2 ft. by 3-5 in., petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, base acute, glabrous and shining above, apprcssed 

 pubescent with silvery-white hairs beneath, petiole 1-3 in., 

 sheath loose, ligule short, 2-lobed; peds. many, ascending 

 from the nodes of the flg. stems, 1-2 in. long, stout, clothed 

 with oblong, thin, pale scales; spikes narrow, pale, 3-fld., 

 \\-2 in. long, ovate; bracts oblong, retuse, membranous, 

 much shorter than the fl., glabrous, pale; fl. 2 in. broad and 

 upwards; cal.-tube \\-2 in. long, oblong, spathiform, tumid, 

 3-toothed or -lobed; cor.-tube as long as the cal., slender, 

 glabrous, segm. i in., subequal, oblong, obtuse or dorsal 

 mucronate; lip much larger than the cor.-segm., \-i\ in. 

 broad, orbicular, base cuneate, narrowed into a linear claw ; 

 anth.-cells glabrous, hardly divergent above, crest semilunar; 

 stigma globose; fr. globose, i in. diam., smooth, deeply 

 6-lobed, dark red. 



Damp forests 1-4000 ft. ; very rare. Alagalla. Fl. June, July ; white, 

 lip stained with yellow and veined with pink. 

 Endemic. 



10. A. pterocarpum, TJiiu. Enum. 317 (1861). 

 C. P. 3021. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 241, 



Rootstock very stout, annulate, root-fibres vermiform; 

 leafing stem 3-6 ft. or more; 1. 1-3 ft. by 2-6 in,, sessile, 

 oblong - lanceolate, acuminate, base acute, membranous, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, sheath smooth, ligule A-i in, 

 membranous, bipartite, segm, lanceolate, acute; flg, stems 

 ascending from the rootstock at the base of the stem, 

 2-5 in, long, very stout, woody, clothed with large decidu- 

 ous sheaths ; spike ovoid or globose, few-fld., i in, diam., 

 elongating in fr.; bracts \\ in,, oblong, glabrous, caducous, 

 white; fl. pedicclled, 2 in. broad; cal.-tube \-\ in., spathiform, 

 3-toothcd, glabrous; cor.-tube as long as the cal., slender, 



