Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 13 



Species about 20. India, Burmah and Siam, a few Malayan. 

 Several species cultivated for their rhizomes occur in and about gardens 

 all over the East. 



§ 1. SlNCOEUS, stem very short, flowers ap- 

 pearing with the leaves. 

 Leaves ovate, petiole short ••• ... 1. K. pulchra. 



Leaves oblong or lanceolate, petiole long 2. K. clegans. 



1. K. PULCHRA, Eidl. I.e. 107. Leaves 2 ovate blunt spreading 

 flat, 7 inches long 5 inches across dark olivaceous black with grey mark- 

 ings. Spike from between the leaves sub-cylindric 1 inch long covered 

 with persistent convolute bracts, outer one brown ribbed, inner about 

 20 thin lanceolate, peduncle 3 inches long. Calyx tubular, very thin. 

 Corolla tube 1 inch, lobes linear obtuse i inch long white. Staminodes 

 connate with the lip obtuse mauve. Lip deeply bilobed lobes oblong 

 rounded i inch long mauve base yellowish white. Filament very short. 

 Anther oblong crest very long linear apex rounded recurved. 



Lanka wi Islands (Curtis 2605). Distrib. Siam. 



2. K. ELEGANS, Wall. Cat. 6593. Rhizome short creeping. 

 Stems about 6 inches tall. Leaves 2 petiole and sheath about as long, 

 blade 5 inches long 3 inches wide lanceolate ovate blunt deep velvety 

 olive green. Peduncle li inch long slender spike narrow 1-li inch 

 long. Bracts green, or mottled red. Calyx spathaceous limb long lin- 

 ear truncate 3 toothed. Corolla tube H inch long slender, lobes 

 linear acute white. Lip deeply bilobed lobes rounded violet. Stami- 

 nodes ovate clawed, violet base yellowish. Filament thin linear. An- 

 ther crest ovate entire recurved. Baker, Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 222. 



Monolophus clegans, Wall. PL Ar. Ear. I. 21 t. 27. Horan. Prodr 

 22. 



Lankawi (Curtis 2637). Distrib. Pegu, Tenasserim. 



K. Galanga, L. Sp. PI. 3. Hort. Cliff 3. Rootstock tuberous. 

 Leaves suborbicular, subsessile green, 3-6 inches long spreading flat on 

 the ground. Flowers white, about 1 inch across. Occurs in and round 

 gardens where it is occasionally cultivated. The aromatic root is used 

 in medicine and as a spice. Native name " Chekur," Native of India. 



§ 2. Protanthium. 



K. rotunda, L. sp. 3. with a thick aromatic rhizome and erect ob- 

 long or lanceolate leaves a foot long or more marbled and variegated 

 dark green and grey purple beneath, flower scape short thick appear- 

 ing after the leaves with large lilac flowers, also occasionally occurs as 

 an escape from cultivation. 



