THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 91 
This plant is very near G. panicoides Miq, differing in the 
absence of spurs to the anther, and the form of the ca 
is possible that it is only an abnormal form. The Singapore 
plant produced leafless or almost leafless stems bearing pani- 
cles. 
$ CERATANTHERA. 
Anther 2-spurred. Flower yellow. 
Gl. panicoides. Miquel. l.c. 614. 
Gl. Kingii. Baker. l.c. 204. G. stenothyrsa Bak. l.c. 
Stems tufted, from nine inches to two feet in height 
usually rather slender, sheaths at the base монга with red, more 
or less pubescent. ‘Leaves narrow lanceolate acuminate to 
vate acuminate 12 inch to 5 inches long and ł to one and a 
half inch broad, ligule hispid. Panicle slender, the branches 
usually short sometimes rather long spreading. Flowers usu- 
ally few. Bracts lanceolate green. Calyx short unequaily 3 
toothed, one tooth much longer than the others, lanceolate 
parallel, connective developed all round and at the base pro- 
longed into a pair of subulate spurs. Style longer than the 
stamen, stigma very small. Capsule globose A rounded 
green 2 inch long terminated by the enlarged ca 
Singapore, Bukit Timah and other woods; ees (Feilding). 
Malacca, Sungei Hudang ; е Selangor, К wala Lumpur, 
Batang ылыа Petaling. Sungei Ujong; Bukit Tumiang. 
Perak. Bruas. Dindings. Province Wellesley, Tasek Gelugur. 
Lankawi, (Curtis 2642) also Lingga island (Hullett). Sumatra on 
the Kelantan river, Siak. Borneo, Sandakan, Bongaya river, 
Labuk M and Sarawak. 
This sa very common plant along stream banks and in 
damp spots in woods all over the Malay "Peninsula. It is very 
variable in size, form of leaf, and length of panicle and its 
branches. The forms from Sarawak and Sandakan are stout 
broad leaved forms with branches an inch and а half long, and 
