54 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Amomum vitcllinum, Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. ii. 2-45, Bot. Rog. 

 1847, t. 32. 



Johor: Batu Pahat (Ridley) ; Selangor: Dusun Tua (Ridley 7792) ; 

 Penang Hill : (King's Coll. 1719) (Ridley 7237). 



In dense forest to about 2500 feet alt. rather rare. Endemic. 



A specimen labelled A. Wrayi, King's Coll. 1719, belongs to this 

 species, but the A. Wrayi Bak. Flor. Brit. Ind. VI. 254, from Penang 

 Hill is classed with the crestless alpinias and compared with A. 

 calcarata, and can hardly be the same thing. 



17. A. CANNAEFOLIA, Ridl. I.e. 174. Stem stout 4 or 5 feet tall. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong ovate narrowed at the base apex broad cuspidate 

 glabrous 12 inches long, 6 inches wide, petiole 4 inches long. Raceme 

 erect 6 inches long, peduncle 12 inches or less pubescent, Bracts linear 

 lowest one 12 inches long i inch wide green persistent. Flowers 

 numerous very shortly pedicelled. Bracteoles very small. Calyx dilate 

 trilobed pubescent £ inch long, lobes blunt hairy at tips. Corolla tube 

 slender, lobes linear blunt 1 inch long. Lip more than l£ inch oblong 

 entire crisped. Staminodes 0. Stamen 1 inch filament broadly winged 

 pubescent. Anther narrow crest 3 lobed, median much the largest 

 oblong crisped. Fruit oblong pubescent. Seeds 2 or 3 only oblong i 

 inch long smooth black. 



Selangor : Dusun Tua (Ridley) ; Negri Sembilan : Bukit Sulu ; 

 Gunong Berumbun (Cantley's Collector). 



In woods rare. Native name " Pua Minyak." Endemic. 

 A decoction of the roots and leaves used in fever. 



18. A. COMOSA, Ridl. I.e. 170. Stems slender 6 to 10 feet tall 

 slender. Leaves narrow lanceolate acuminate cuspidate, edges serrate, 

 with short stiff hairs at the tip 12 inches long, l£ to 2 wide, petiole 0, 

 ligule very short rounded. Raceme about 6 inches long dense mehis 

 pubescent. Bracts conical cup-shaped acute white falling oft" before 

 the flower opens. Flowers numerous. Calyx spathaceous white « 

 inch long. Corolla infundibuliform white a little longer, lobes oblong 

 pubescent ^ inch long upper one hooded. Lip $ inch lony, sides broad 

 upturned, apex narrow minutely bifid pubescent, median bar thickened 

 fleshy, white base pale yellow, with a bar of deep crimson dots on each 

 side. Staminodes I inch long spathulate apex broad rounded white 

 with a patch of deep crimson dots. Filament linear £ inch, anther { 

 inch long, crost oblong rounded small, pubescent. Capsulo cylindric 

 ribbed brownish yellow, 2 inches long •} inch thick. 



Kedah, Gunong Jerai, in forests (Ridley 4443). Endemic. 



Excluded Species. 



Alpinia Alhugas, Roscoe. A. calcarata, Rose. A. bracteat^Boxb' 

 A. nutans. Rose. A. vialacccnsis, Rose, all mentioned as occurring in 



