Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 9 



apart. Stems 4-6 inches tall covered with pubescent sheaths i to 1 inch 

 long. Leaf solitary erect ovate acute glabrous 6-8 inches long 3 inches 

 wide narrowed to a petiole i to 1 inch long. Panicle dense decurved 

 from the leaf-axil 2 inches long pubescent. Bracts oblong ovate pu- 

 bescent i inch long. Calyx funnel-shaped f inch long teeth very 

 obscure unequally bilobed pubescent. Corolla tube twice as long lobes 

 oblong hooded, staminodes similar. Lip very short subspathulate bilob- 

 ed tips rounded. Filament nearly f inch long, anther spurs 4 linear 

 acuminate acute the upper ones larger than the lower ones. 



Tringanu at Bundi (E. Rostado). 



G. marantina, L. Mant. II. 170, Fl. Ind. i. 78. A short usual- 

 ly tufted plant with persistent ovate bracts, the flowers almost always 

 replaced by bulbils occurs occasionally in or round gardens introduced 

 from Java. 



Singapore : Botanic Gardens ; Penang : Ayer Hitam (Birch, Curtis 

 3729). 



Excluded Species. 



G. versicolor, Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 117. Malay Peninsula from 

 Pegu to Singapore, Roxburgh, and Penang (Flor. Brit. Ind. VI. 205). 

 I have seen no specimens of from our regions, Koenig collected it in 

 Junk Ceylon in Siam, and says he saw it in a dwarf state near Malac- 

 ca. This latter was doubtless G. panicoides, Miq., or some other 

 common species mistaken for it. 



2. Hedychium, Koen. 



Herbs epiphytic or terrestrial, rhizomatous. Stems elongate. 

 Leaves oblong or lanceolate. Inflorescence terminal. Bracts oblong 

 or lanceolate subcoriaceous. Flowers 1 or more to each bract. Calyx 

 tubular 3 toothed. Corolla tube long slender lobes linear, spreading or 

 reflexed. Staminodes linear. Filament, slender long connective not 

 produced. Lip large bifid. Ovary 3 celled, many ovuled. Style long 

 filiform stigma small. Capsule globose, three valved seeds many small 

 with a coloured aril. 



Species about 40. Indo Malayan. 



Plants terrestrial roots fibrous. 



Flowers spicate, lip broad bilobed ... 1. H. collinum. 



Epiphytic roots thick fleshy. 



Rhizome short, flowers scarlet ••• ... 2. H. longicomutum. 



Rhizome long very thick, flowers white 3. H. macrorrhizum 



1. H. COLLINUM, Ridl. I.e. 103. A low tufted plant about 3 feet 

 tall. Leaves broad lanceolate acuminate cuspidate glabrous 6 inches long, 

 3 inches wide ligule oblong 1 inch long h inch wide spike rather lax 

 noilding 6 inches long. Bracts oblong truncate obtuse about 20 on a 



