Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 19 



at the base into the petiole, inaequilateral 4q to 8 inches long, 2 inches 

 wide, petiole 5 or 6 inches long sheathing for about 3 inches all 

 glabrous except about the midrib on the back, where are a few scattered 

 hairs. Spike central 3 inches long. Bracts long and narrow contain- 

 ing 4 or 5 flowers with 2 long narrow linear acute, bracteoles 1 inch 

 long i inch wide. Calyx tube very narrow 2 inch long, lobes lanceolate 



2 longer than the third. Corolla tube slender 2 inches long, lobes linear 

 •5 inch long. Lip oblong entire apex rounded crisped, median bar 

 thickened. Staminodes as long as corolla lobes broader blunt. Fila- 

 ment rather slender. Anther oblong, crest oval, longer than the 

 stigma. 



Selangor: Pahang Track on banks (Eidley). Endemic. 



G. PANDURATA, Eidl. I.e. 114. Kaempferia panclurata, Eoxb. As. 

 Ees. XL 320, t. 2, Bot. Eeg. t. 173, Eosc. Scit. PI. t. 96. 



Cultivated by the Malays and Chinese for its aromatic root-stock, 

 and occasionally found in abandoned gardens belongs to this section. 

 It is probably a native of India and is called " Temu Kinchi " by the 

 Malays. The rhizome is yellow inside, and bears a tuft of about 5 ob- 

 long ovate leaves with a broad base and long petiole. The spike is 

 short. The flowers white or pink. Lip saccate white spotted pink. 



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16. G. BILOBA, Eidl. Trans. Linn. Soc. III. p. 379. Ehizome rather 

 long slender. Leaves solitary distant obovate subcoriaceous 6 inches 

 long 4 inches across, deep bluish green above with a white feather on 

 each side, bright rosy pink beneath, petiole 2 inches long or more stout. 

 Spike close to the leaf and enclosed with it in a red sheath as long as 

 the petiole or shorter, peduncle 1 inch long. Bracts narrow lanceolate 

 blunt red t inch long. Flowers white 6 or more enclosed in red bract- 

 eoles. Calyx tubular very short. Corolla tube 1 inch long lobes lan- 

 ceolate acute if inch long. Staminodes much shorter oblong obtuse 

 rounded. Lip obovate apex bilobed white pale yellow in the centre. 

 Stamen short. Anther oblong pubescent, crest broader rounded retuse. 



G. calophylla, Eidl. Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. XXXII. 

 p. 115. 



Selangor : Pahang Track in dense forest (Eidley) ; Pahang : Tahan 

 Eiver (Eidley). Endemic. 



The Pahang plant has a deeper bilobed lip, and the leaves less 

 distinctly marked with white and has a few other slight differences 

 but I think the two are specifically the same. 



17. G. OCULATA, Eidl. I.e. 117. Ehizome rather long creeping. 

 Leaf solitary ovate glabrous 8 inches long by 4^ inches wide dark green 

 purplish beneath prominent nerves about 14, petiole 10 inches longer 

 less. Perl uncle 1 inch long enclosed with the petiole in a sheath. 



