THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY 
PENINSULA. 
The traveller in the forests of the Peninsula can hardly fail 
to notice the beauty of many of our wild gingers (Scitominee) 
and would be surprised to find how much this interesting group 
of plants has been neglected by botanists, for though many have 
have often been well figured and described. In studying this 
group here, I have in nearly every case compiled the de- 
scription from specimens in the jungle itself, or from plants 
rought home and cultivated in the Botanic Gardens. 
16 Order consists of five groups, which, beginning with 
the most specialised, are Zingiberacee, Marantacee, Canmacem, 
Lowiacee and Musacec. 
typical monocotyledonous flower consists of three 
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bears in its edge an anther cell. This curious arrangement is 
