24 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



basal. Bracts stiff often spiny. Calyx tubular with three lobes. 

 Corolla tube broad funnel-shapped as long lobes large lanceolate or 

 oblong. Lip large obovate usually entire trumpet-shaped. Staminodes 

 absent. Stamen very broad and thin connective above long acute or 

 curved up. Anther cells narrow linear. Capsule woody splitting on 

 one side, seeds numerous angled. 



Species about 40. South America, Afiica and Indo Malaya. 



Spike terminal flowers white ... ... 1. C. s})Cciosus. 



Spike on the rhizome. 



Bracts strongly spiny. Flowers red ... 2. C. globosus. 



Bracts hairy not pungent. Flowers 



yellow ••• 3. C. Kingii. 



Bracts glabrous thin ... ... ... 4. C. Kunstlcri. 



1. C. SPECIOSUS, Smith Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 249. Stems 6 to 10 

 feet tall 2 to 1 inch through covered with dull brown sheaths, often 

 branched above and spiral. Leaves oblong acuminate 9 inches long 3 

 inches wide above glabrous dark green, beneath more or less pubescent, 

 petiole i inch long pubescent, ligule short annular reddish. 

 Spike ovate or oblong terminal (very rarely from the rhizome) 6 inches 

 or less. Bracts ovate mucronate not pungent red 4 inch long. Bracteole 

 shorter lanceolate acute. Calyx short cartilagineous red, lobes very 

 short, lower one longest. Corolla tube short hardly i inch long lobes 

 equal mucronate 2 inches long, white often tinged rose. Lip very large 

 obovate convolute 4 inches long and wide white central bar yellow. 

 Stamen 2 inches long filament hairy on the back i inch across, crest 

 oblong acuminate orange beneath. Capsule half inch long red. Seed 4 

 or 5 in each cell. Bak. Fl. Brit. Ind. 250, Roxb. As. Res. XL 349, Fl. 

 Ind. i. 58, Wight Ic. t. 2014, Rchb. Fl. Exot. t. 69, Paxt. Mag. IV. t. 

 245. G. arabicus, Jacq. 1'c. t. 1, Hellenin grandifiora, Retz. Obs. VI. 

 68, Banksia speciom, Koem. Retz. Obs. III. 75. Common over the 

 whole peninsula. 



var. argyrophy litis, Wall. Cat. 6555. Bak. l.c.c. 



A more slender woodland form. Stems more branched, leaves 

 more pubescent on the back often quite silky. Bracts and calyx less 

 brightly coloured, often green. Flower spikes and ilowors small. Lip 

 entirely white. Petals often tinted pink. 



Common in woods, Singapore, Malacca, Perak (King's Coll. 436.) 

 Very rarely indeed a spike of flowers appears rising directly from the 

 rhizome. 



Schumann Monogr. dor Zingiberaoeerj von Malaisien (Englers 

 Bot. .Tabid). XXVII) makes 5 varieties ono of which var. sericea is 

 doubtless argyrophyllus, the rest are very slightly different forms. 



The native name is " S'Tawar or Tawar," and the plant is chiefly 

 used in magic ceremonies. 



