44 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



18 inches tall rather slender. Leaves 8 lanceolate acuminate glabrous 

 G inches long li inch wide ligule short rounded. Spike short, peduncle 

 \ inch long covered with dry lanceolate bracts li inch long. Flowers 

 4 ovary oblong pubescent i inch long. Calyx tube U inch long pubes- 

 cent at base apex long acuminate. Corolla tube long narrow £ inch 

 longer pubescent lobes oblong i inch J wide lip oblong rounded 1 

 inch long all white except the tip of the lip which is blue anther oblong 

 crest moderately large. Stigma large cup-shaped. 



Negri Sembilan at Bukit Tanga, Seremban (W. J. Napier). 



7. E. LONGITUBA, Eidl. Trans. Linn. Soc. III. 382, Journ. Roy. 

 A9. Soc. S. Br. I.e. p. 156. Stem several feet tall. Leaves oblong 

 lanceolate cuspidate 2 feet long 3 inches wide, narrowed and inaequi- 

 lateral at the base, glabrous above woolly pubescent beneath, petiole 1 

 inch long pubescent. Flowering stems very long far creeping { inch 

 thick and eventually woody. Spikes numerous { inch apart. Bracts 

 (sheathing leaves) oblong cuspidate 2 inches long. Flowers in pairs. 

 Calyx tube 2 inches long slender apex ovate 3 toothed. Corolla tube i 

 inch longer lobes oblong obtuse rosy 1 inch long i inch wide. Lip ob- 

 ovatecrenulate 1? inch long white tip yellow, 4 pink lines in the centre. 

 Filament narrow pubescent, crest 4 toothed. Capsule 1 inch through 

 globular white. 



Pahang : Tahan Eiver (Ridley 2403) ; Selangor : Gunong Hitam 

 (Goodenough). Upper Perak at 3000 feet elevation (Wray 3586). In 

 dense forests. Endemic 



15. GEOSTACHYS, Ridl. 



Rhizome stout woody not subterranean. Leafy stems 2-3 feet 

 tall. ' Leaves lanceolate cuspidate glabrous. Peduncles lateral decurv- 

 ed, rarely erect. Flowers secund, 2 or 3 in a dry papery brown bract 

 on a short peduncle. Calyx tubular with an ovate cuspidate limb. 

 Corolla tube shorter thick, lobes oblong as long as the tube. Lip entire 

 obovate as long. Staminodes none. Stamen short. Anther linear 

 with a small rounded crest. Capsule orange or red elongate or globose. 

 Species 5 or 6. Endemic. 



Scapes decurved 



Flowers 4 together in each bract ... 1. G. sccunda. 



Flowers 2 together in a bract. 



Lip obcuneate entire 2. G. decurmta. 



Lip 3 lobed 3. G. Penan ensis. 



Flowers 1 in each bract ••• ... ••• 4. G. rupestris. 



Scapes erect ••• 5. G. dlegans, 



1. G. BECUNDA, Ridl. I.e. 158. Stems stout and tall. Leaves 

 over 12 inches long H inch wide narrow lanceolate glabrous, petiole 

 1 inch long, ligule 1 inch. Scapes deflexed 6 inches long, base covered 



