34 Material* for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



to the base, 2 feet long 4 inches wide glabrous. Spikes several cylin- 

 dric or fusiform 3-4 inches long on peduncles 6 inches long covered 

 with the green sheaths. Bracts papery striate and pale brown oblong 

 subacute li inch long ^ inch wide silkily pubescent. Bracteoles tubu- 

 lar fawn colour silky bilobed i inch long' Calyx tritid silky. Corolla 

 tube barely longer lobes linear oblong white \ inch long. Lip spoon- 

 shaped a little longer white, tip yellow, with two red lines at the base. 

 Starninodes oblong truncate buff. Filament broad, anther short nar- 

 rower, quadrate, upper angles produced, crest entire oblong blunt. 

 Ovary silky. 



Pulau Tiuman (Bidley). Sclangor, Kwala Lumpur Caves (Ridley 

 8173). In thick woods flowering in December. Endemic. 



11. A. MICRANTHUM, Ridley I.e. 138. Rhizome far creeping slen- 

 der, roots long woolly. Stems slender 2 feet tall. Leaves narrow lan- 

 ceolate acuminate 6-7 inches long i inch wide glabrous dark green, 

 petiole very short or 0, ligule very short truncate. Spikes short 

 obconic dense 1 inch long, on peduncles as long. Bracts narrow 

 laceolate acute pubescent { inch long brown. Flowers very small £ 

 inch long. Calyx green with 3 short acute lobes. Corolla tube a 

 little longor i inch long, lobes linear narrow pale yellow. Lip oblong 

 enlarged towards the apex, then suddenly narrowed and bifid, pale 

 yellow dotted pink. Starninodes short linear. Filament tapering up- 

 wards. Anther small oblong, upper angles produced into acute curved 

 processes with a small rounded entire crest. Fruit small globular 

 covered with short processes purple brown. 



Penang Hill (Curtis 2884) (Ridley 9337) ; Negri Sembilan : Gunong 

 Angsi (Ridley 10,008) ; Perak : Gunong Horan (Scortecbini 614). 

 Endemic. 



12. HORNSTEDTIA, Retz. 



Rhizome stout. Stems tall rarely under 10 feet stout. Leaves 

 oblong. Spikes on a long or short peduncle from the rhizome, conic or 

 hemispheric or subcylindric. Outer bracts largo red, ovato or oblong 

 forming a cup. Bracteoles thin tubular. Flowers numerous sessile. 

 Calyx spathaceous thin. Corolla long or short tubed lobes narrow 

 connivent. Lip narrow linear or oblong, sides at the baso convolute 

 ovor the stamen. Starninodes 0. Stamen short and thick, anther fleshy, 

 bent at an angle with the filament, crest very small or none. Capsule 

 oblong with thin cartilaginous walls and numerous black seeds, or sub- 

 globose, with a fleshy pericarp and bony walls, seeds brown. 



§ 1. Eu-HORNSTEDTIA. Peduncles short, 

 spike cylindric or subglobose. Fruit oblong car- 

 tilaginous, concealed in the porsistont bracts. 

 Lip little longer than the petals linear lloshy. 

 outer bracts ovate or lanceolate stiff. 



