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96 THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
A very pretty species, the whole of the inflorescence 
being pure white and much of it polished like Ber. It кеги 
rather dry parts of woods often growing on rocks. Ко 
occur in which the leaves on some of the ж дда see are 
‚ suppressed, the stems being merely covered with sheaths 
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branches of the panicle but more rarely than in other species. 
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ms three feet tall. Leaves narrowly lanceolate аси mina te 
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ligule very short, sheath glabrous. Panicle 12-15 inches 
long with distant slender branches spreading, me inch long or 
less.  Bracts = linear obtuse nearly } inch long. Flo- 
wers white, one or two only on the ends of the aie: Calyx 
Sse with E lanceolate lobes. Corolla tube verv slender 
1 an inch long, lobes boat-shaped ovate. Staminodes longer 
oblong linear. Lip short eg a aa ed, lobes rather long 
divergent. Filament 2 inch long anther oblong, spurs 2 linear 
езер sige ades longer than m anther. 
Government Hill near the cooly lines aes 
кы p athe т slender, narrow leaved plant, remarkable for 
its long persistent bracts, and long upcurved spurs of tlie antber. 
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tems over a foot tall rather slender. Leaves lanceolate 
acuminate. minutely pubescent beneath, 5 inches long, 14 inch 
wide, ligule and margin of sheath hispid. Panicle erect rather 
crowded at the ends of the branches, white. Cal alyx unequally 3 
lobed, lobes acute, 2 inch long, Corolla tube nearly 2 an inch long, 
lobes, oblong ovate obtuse 2. inch long. Staminodes very 
similar and as long, Lip short oblong ovate obtuse entire white 
with a violet central spot. Filament ian inch long, spurs of 
anther linear curved up at the ends 2. inch long, Capsule glo- 
bose smooth 1 inch long 
