92 THE SCITAMINEJ/E OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
longer calyces, but I can only consider them as extreme forms. 
l have the authority of Dr. King for identifying G. Kingü 
Baker with the ill-described G. panicoides of Miquel ‘of which he 
has seen a type. It would indeed be strange if so very abun- 
dant and conspicuous a plant had escaped Miquel. I cannot from 
the description distinguish G. stenothyrsa Baker. from this plant. 
It is based on specimens from "l'enasserim = by Parish, 
and ues а plant collected by Cuming in Malacc 
e all other Globbas, this often ыан “bulbils in the 
axils of the bracts, and often the whole panicle produces bulbils 
page of flowers. 
is known to the Malays by a variety of names, viz. 
Haliya hutan (wild ginger) Meroyan Tingal, and Meroyan 
B'rchoin, Pua Birah, Bunga Lidah Munta, Haliya K'ra. The 
slightly aromatic roots are used in native mediciue for fever, 
and rheumatism 
G!. pendula Roxb. Asiat. Res. XI. 859 Fl. Ind. 179. 
A large plant 3 feet or more tall. Leaves oblong cuspidate 
9 inches long, 4 across glabrous, ligule rounded pubescent, 
"erm with pubescent edges. Panicle stout sometimes nearly 
2 feet long, branches short жа селе. Bracts lanceolate 
caducous, Calyx funnel-shaped 1 inch long, with 3 unequal 
acute 16 bes. Corolla tube slender halt a inch long, lobes cymbi- 
form 4 inch long orange yellow. 
Staminodes thin oblanceolate obtuse as long. Lip adnate 
from a little above the siaminodes narrow bilobed. orange with 
a maroon не spot nearly + an inch long. Stamen filament 
over 1 an inch ugs lo elliptic horns linear subulate 2 
about as E as the anther, connective prolonged above the 
anther = a rounded Rcs ss. 
Pen Banks close to the Waterfall. Perak on Max- 
eid bill. S reda Peak by the Cascade. Pahang, Tabau river. 
the biggest species. The name pendu/ais by no means a 
eds one, as the stout panicle is usually stiffly erect. 
GI. montana n.s 
Stems about 2 feet tall. Leaves к cuspidate thin 7 
inches long 14 inch broad, with a long attenuate point, glabrous 
above paler pubescent beneath, petiole аса Pot usually distinct, 
