30 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



length, yellowish white. Lip shorter side lohes rounded midlohe 

 lanceolate acute. Anther oblong brown beak yellow. Eidley I.e. 131. 



Singapore : Bukit Timah (Ridley) ; Johor : Bukit Tana Abang, Batu 

 Pahat (Kelsall) ; Malacca : (Grifffith) Bukit Sedanen (Goodenough 1434 ; 

 Dindings: Tanjong Hantu (Ridley 7224). Common in woods. Native 

 names " Tepus Merah," " Tepus Kechil." 



var major. Stems about 5 feet tall stout, leaves elliptic oblong 

 acuminate 18 inches long 5 inches across stiff sheaths glabrous, petiole 

 very short. Spike glabrous. Flower 3 inches long. Corolla tube 2 

 inches. 



Pahang : Kwala Tembeling (Ridley); Perak : Bujong Malacca 

 (Ridley 9820). Endemic. 



Z. officinale, Rose. Trans. Linn. Soc. VIII. 348. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. 246. The ginger " Haliya " is cultivated largely. It never es- 

 tablishes itself and its native country is not known. 



11. AMOMUM, L. 



Rhizome usually long, leafy stems tall. Leaves lanceolate oblong 

 or linear. Inflorescence obconic from the rhizome, on a short peduncle. 

 Bracts lanceolate or ovate containing 1 or more flowers enclosed in 

 thin bracteoles. Calyx as long as the corolla tube. Lobes of corolla 

 oblong or lanceolate. Staminodes absent or small. Lip large, often 

 very large convolute. Stamen broad, crest rounded with two horn-like 

 or linear processes from the upper part. Style shorter than the crest. 

 Capsule globose or oblong sometimes covered with short processes. 

 Seeds numerous. 



Species African, India and Malayan. 



No staminodes. 



Lip large convolute obovate. 



Anther crest small rounded upper angles 



prolonged ... ... ... ... 1. A.xanthophlebiwn. 



Anther crest reniform, angles not pro- 

 longed ... ... ... ... 2. A. flavum. 



Anther crestless, fruit softly spinose. 

 Lip hilobed at the tip, fruit oblong ... 3. A. l&ppacettm. 



Lip entire denticulate, fruit large globose 4. A, ochrevm. 

 Lip small boat-shaped ... ... ... 5. A. uliginosum. 



Tsvo staminodes developed. 



Lip trilobed, spike cylindric ... ... 6. A. cylindraceum 



Lip trilobed hastate, spike obconic ... 7. .1. hastilabium. 



Lip bifid at apex ••• ... ••• ... 8, A. mwrodons. 



