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base, apex somewhat abruptly acute, base dull purple, above 

 pale green, darker at the edges and the tip, hairy, i^- inch 

 long, f inch wide. Lower pair shorter, ovate, pale green, 

 acute, hairy. Petals 2 inches long, spathulate, broadest to- 

 wards the tip, which is subacute, half twisted at the base, 

 glabrous ; margin dull yellowish green with a longitudinal 

 •purple central bar, many round spots. Lip glabrous, purplish, 

 ij inch long, f inch wide. Anther orbicular, widely emarginate 

 at the tip and retuse behind, yellowish with a green centre. 

 Fruit cylmdric, narrowed at each end, 2 inches long. 



Common in woods near the streams, growing in deep 

 moss, in shady spots at an altitude of 5,600 feet on the Padang. 



Certainly allied to C. barbatum, Lindl., but distinct in the 

 smaller abruptly, acuminate upper sepal and petals without 

 hairs on the glandular dots. The leaves are much smaller than 

 in most specimens of C. barbatum, Lindl. 



APOSTASIACEiE. 



*235. Apostasia nuda, Br. ; Ridl. op. cit. p. 330. Banks 

 of the stream at the Padang Camp. 



Distribution. The whole Peninsula. 



SCITAMINE^. 



*236. Hedychium collinum, Ridl. op. cit. p. 331. This 

 beautiful and fragrant plant grows near the Gully and on the 

 stream-banks on the Padang, but is not common. It has only 

 been previously met with on Kedah Peak and is allied to H. 

 Gomezianum, Wall. 



237. [Alpinia PETioLATA, J5a^. Was fouud near Wray's 

 Camp at 3,300 feet. Occurs also in Perak. 



238. A. MuRDOCHii, Ridl. Also grows here. It was 

 found in flower and fruit.] 



239. Camptandra Tahanensis, n. sp. 



Whole plant 5 or 6 inches tall, succulent. Sheaths four 

 or five on the stem, lanceolate, acute, lower ones ribbed when 

 dry. Leaves 2 to 4, ovate-acuminate, caudate, obliquely bright 

 green, 3 to 3J inches long, i^ inch wide; petiole i inch long. 

 Peduncle ^ to ^ inch long. Bract urn-shaped, top rounded, 

 J-f inch long, green, containing two flowers. Calyx cylindric, 

 \ inch long, truncate, slightly dilated upwards, reddish, persis- 

 tent* in fruit. Corolla-tube slender, half an inch long, 

 protruding far from the top of the bract ; lobes white, f inch 

 long, oblong. Lip large, obovate, with two yellow central 

 semiovate longitudinal keels. Capsule oblong, \ inch long. 



Gunong Tahan, abundant in damp spots by streams, but 

 nearly over in July. Allied to C. ovalifolia, Ridl., of Semangkok 

 Pass, but with larger flowers, with longer tube to the corolla, 

 and different lip. 



The second flower in the bract opens about the time that 

 the fruit of the first flower is ripe. 



