Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 41 



broader than the peduncle, 3 inches tall, 5 wide. Involucral bracts 

 very broad oblong tips recurved 3 inches long 2± inches wide rosy. 

 Floral bracts linear oblong 2 inches long £ inch wide. Bracteole short- 

 er spathaceous. Calyx li inch long trifid deep red. Corolla lobes 

 linear spathulate li inch long blunt pink. Lip half an inch long ob- 

 long apex rounded blunt white, centre spotted pink. Filament hairy. 

 Anther oblong white with yellow hairs emarginate. Fruit obconic 

 with a long beak glabrous red 3 inches long l£ inch through. 

 Selangor, Ginting Bidai (Ridley 7810). Endemic. 



17. H. Maingayi, Ridl. I.e. 150. Rhizome very long, with red 

 shoots. Stems distant 9 feet tall f inch through. Leaves oblong 

 acute 18-24 inches long 5 inches wide glabrous above pubescent beneath, 

 petoile £ inch long. Peduncle one or two inches to a foot tall, sheaths 

 pink, tips oval. Spike subglobose Ik inch long. Outer bracts appress- 

 ed broad rounded retuse pink with silvery pubescence, margins glabrous 

 crimson. Inner bracts lanceolate over an inch long. Bracteole spatha- 

 ceous tubular 1 inch long, with three points. Flowers 2 inches long 

 rose colour. Calyx tubular w T ith 3 lanceolate points longer than corolla. 

 Corolla lobes blunt oblong. Lip 3 lobed, side lobes erect oblong, mid- 

 lobe longer deep rose. Filament linear, anther oblong more than i inch 

 excavate crimson. Fruit obconic 2 inch long nearly glabrous, pink. 



Amomum Maingayi, Bak. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 235. 



Nicolaia pallida, Horan Prodr. I.e. 



Singapore : Bukit Timah (Ridley 6539). Sungei Buluh (6237) ; 

 Johor : Batu Pahat, (Ridley) ; Pahang : Kota Glanggi ; Selangor, Dusun 

 Tua (Ridley 7801) ; Perak : (Wray 3600). 



13. Plagiostachts, Ridl. 



Stems tall leaves lanceolate. Spike or panicle from the side of 

 the leafy stalk on a short peduncle with sheathing leaves. Flowers 

 small, very densely crowded, with oblong" ovate laciniate bracts. Calyx 

 spathaceous short. Corolla tube short and thick, lobes oblong fleshy. 

 Lip flat oblong. Staminodes 2 short subulate processes. Stamen short 

 and thick. Anther oblong emarginate crestless. Capsule ovoid or 

 oblong, crustaceous, 3 celled, seeds 3-4 in each cell. 



Species 2 Malayan. 



P. lateralis, Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 32, p. 152. 



Rhizome thick. Stems 6 feet tall stout. Leaves lanceolate acumi- 

 nate pubescent 2^ feet long, 4 inches wide, petiole 1 inch long, ligule 

 obtuse bilobed 4 inch. Spike solitary or 3 on a peduncle stout, 6 inches 

 long cylindric, rachis pubescent thick bracts brown oblong laciniate. 

 Calyx as long as the corolla tube white, i inch. Corolla lobes ovate 

 acute dark red fleshy | inch long. Lip short emarginate papillose 

 orange yellow. Stamen pubescent white. Staminodes minute. Cap- 

 sule i inch long ovoid conic pale brown, 



