Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 25 



Distribution. India, Ceylon and Malay Archipelago. 



2. C. GLOBOSUS, Bl. Enum. PI. Jav. 62. Stems tall 6 to 8 feet 

 rather slender bases covered with reddish brown sheaths. Leaves on 

 one side of the stem only, sheaths terete 1 inch long blade broadly 

 oblanceolate acuminate 7 inches long 22 inches wide, midrib beneath 

 sometimes pubescent petiole i inch long, ligule annular ciliate. Spike 

 from the rhizome on a peduncle 3 inches long, compact as long as the 

 peduncle. Bracts broad ovate stiff red an inch long with a long sharp 

 pungent mucro. Flowers cherry red. Bracteole resembling the bract 

 but smaller. Calyx tubular with three pungent lobes, an inch long red. 

 Corolla tube as long as the calyx, lobes lanceolate pubescent acute 1 

 inch long i inch wide. Lip obovate involute 2 inches long fringed with 

 hairs. Filament f inch across. Anther crest ovate obtuse red, back of 

 stamen covered with white wool. Bak. I.e. Bidl. I.e. 125. Valeton. 

 Ic. Bogar. VII. 163. 



C. acanthoccphalus, Schum. Eng. Bot. Jahrb. XXVII. t. VI. D. 



Singapore : Bukit Timah (Eidley) ; Johor : Gunong Panti ; Selang- 

 or : Kwala Lumpur Caves (Eidley 8474) ; Perak : Larut Hills ; Pa- 

 hang : Tahan Eiver (Eidley 2392) ; Sungei Ujong : Tampin (Goodenough 

 1908). Distrib. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. On rocks and banks in damp 

 woods. 



3. C. KlNGll, Bak. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 250. Stems about 6 feet 

 tall. Leaves oblanceolate oblong cuspidate 8 inches long 3 inches wide 

 glabrous above softly pubescent beneath, sheaths hispid, ligule hardly 

 distinct not hairy. Spike from the rhizome on a peduncle 2 inches long, 

 conic cylindric 3 inches long, 2 inches through. Bracts ovate | inch long, 

 upper ones smaller lanceolate mucronate with a short hairy point. 

 Bracteole similar but smaller. Flowers orange yellow. Calyx nearly 

 an inch tubular, lobes 3 equal mucronate hairy. Corolla tube 6 inches 

 long lobes oblong mucronate pubescent. Filament oblong rather short 

 white woolly apex rounded orange. Eidley I.e. 125. 



Penang : Pulau Betong (Curtis 1976) ; Perak : Larut Hills (King's 

 Coll. 2104). Endemic. 



4. C. Kunstleri, King. Mss. Leaves oblanceolate narrowed at 

 the base apex acuminate cuspidate glabrous 6-7 inches long 2^ inch 

 wide, petiole \ inch long, sheaths 1^ inch long glabrous dilate. 

 Peduncle 3 inches long, rather slender. Capitulum 1\ inch long sub- 

 globose. Bracts thin lanceolate. Calyx tube little over £ inch thick 

 purplish, lobes 3 acute. Corolla tube i as long again rather slender 

 lobes oblong over an inch long. Lip convolute obovate rounded 

 1\ inch long \ inch across. Stamen flat thin appendage long linear 

 broad. Stigma with a broad trilobed crest. Ovary hispid. 



Perak : Larut Hills 500 to 1,000 feet (Kunstler 2037). Endemic, 



