Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 11 



3. Odontychium, Schum. 



A terrestrial plant with numerous stems from a rhizome. Leaves 

 linear lanceolate, panicle terminal lax with short three-flowered branches. 

 Bracts spathaceous cup-shaped. Calyx tubular brown papery unequally 

 bilobed. Corolla tube cylindric, upper lobe linear hooded, low r er ones 

 linear spathulate adnate to the base of the lip. Lip linear tip three-lobed, 

 lobes toothed. Staminodes linear. Stamen twice as long as upper petal 

 Anther oblong, ovary trilocular. Capsule globose, termiated by the 

 calyx tube. 



0. denticulatum, Schum. Pflanzen reich. Zingiberaceae, p. 59. A 

 terrestrial plant forming large clumps stems 2 feet tall, leaves lanceo- 

 late acuminate glabrous with small thorn-like processes along the edge 

 8 inches long or more 3 inches wide petiole i inch long sheath hispid. 

 Panicle a foot long branches short 3 flowered. Bracts 1 inch long. 

 Calyx brown papery i inch long. Corolla tube straight, upper lobe 

 narrow tip hooded pinkish, base green If inch long, laterals deflexed 

 greenish narrow linear ending in three toothed lobes, the middle lobe 

 bifid green, the base channelled red. Staminode little shorter than the 

 petals red, stamen white pubescent. Hedi/chium denticulatum, Ridl. 

 I.e. 102. Dindiugs, woods at Lumut, fl. July (Ridley 7822. 9453). 



Excluded Specie's. 



H. coronarium, Koen. " Malacca " in Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 226, is 

 not a native of the Peninsula. It is sometimes to be seen in gardens, 

 and is called " Ganda suli." 



4. Camptandra, Ridl. 



Herbaceous glabrous plants, rhizome very short. Stems 1 or few. 

 Leaves few ovate petiolate. Flowers several enclosed in a terminal 

 green spathe, showy fugacious. Calyx tubular with 3 equal lobes. 

 Corolla tube long slender lobes lanceolate or oblong. Lip obovate 

 bilobed. Staminodes large obovate petaloid. Stamen shortly project- 

 ing, beyond the tube. Anther long slender curved dorsifixed versatile, 

 the base prolonged into two parallel processes, the upper part only 

 polliniferous, style slender, stigma capitate. Capsule oblong, seeds 

 numerous, curved fusiform aril lacerate. 



Species 4 Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 



Stems several short, leaves 4 or 5 ovate 1. C. parvula. 



Stems 1 or 2, tall. Leaves few large cor- 2. C. latifolia. 



date 



Stems 1 or 2, tall, ovate peltate ••• ... 3. C. ovata. 



1. C. PARVULA, Ridl. I.e. 104. Stems several about 6 inches tall. 

 Leaves 4 or 5 ovate acuminate oblique, 2-3 inches long, 1 inch wide, 

 petiole slender 1 inch. Spathe ovate acute 1 inch long. Flowers 



