4:6 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



5. G. ELEGANS, Ridl. I.e. 160. Stems about 3 feet tall leaves 

 narrow lanceolate acuminate 1 foot long 1 inch broad glabrous, petiole 

 i inch long, ligule ovate obtuse g inch. Scapes erect 1? feet tall, base 

 covered with dry sheaths, lowest ones obtuse 2 inches, upper ones acute, 

 rachis pubescent. Panicle 5-6 inches long with flowers in pairs in an 

 ovate bract, on a short peduncle outer bracts ovate mucronato pubes- 

 cent. Calyx spathaceous brown. Corolla tube shorter £ inch long lobes 

 oblong obtuse buff. Lip obovate oblong refuse little longer. Filament 

 very short. Anther oblong narrow cmarginate, crest. Capsule orange 

 globose I inch long glabrous. 



Malacca : Mount Ophir (Derry 603, Ridley 3137). Common on 

 rocks and the ground up to 4000 feet elevation. 



16. Altinia, L. 



Rhizome short aromatic. Stems tall leafy. Leaves lanceolate, 

 shortly petiolate, ligule short. Panicles terminal, flowers numerous 

 often showy. Bracts caducous often petaloid. Calyx tube short tubu- 

 lar. Corolla tube thick little longer, lobes linear or oblong. Lip large 

 and convolute, or small narrow lobed or entire. Staminodes broad and 

 spathulate, or reduced to narrow subulate processes or absent. Stamen 

 long fleshy, filament thick, anther broad crest usually absent, well 

 developed (section Ccnolophon). Fruit globose or cylindric, yellow red 

 or black, dehiscent irregularly. Seeds numerous black angled enclosed 

 in a sweet aril, aromatic. 



Species about 60. India, Malaya, Siam, China and North Australia. 



§ 1. HELLENIA. Flowers small, white or 

 pink. Lip narrow not convolute often bifid. 

 Anther usually crested. Fruit small globose 

 few seeded. 



Lip entire obovate 1. A.conchigera, 



Lip entire narrow oblong 2. A. sccundi flora. 



Lip bifid spathulate 3. A. Galanya. 



Lip bifid lobes narrow no anther crest ... \. A. melanocarpa. 



Lip bifid lobes narrow anther crested- •• 5. A. scabra. 



§2. Catimbioi. Flowers large. Lip broad 

 convolute, red and yellow. Anther not crested. 

 Fruit globose large. Seeds numerous small, 

 angled, in a sweet aril. Panicle or raceme 

 erect lax ; bracts oblong or boat -shaped. 



Staminodes absent. Bracteoles small 



caducous ... ... 6. A. viutica. 



Staminodes absent. Bracteoles large boat- 

 shaped 1 inch 7..1. assimilis. 



