100 THE SCITAMINEX OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
beneath, ligule very short glabrous. Panicle short nodding 
with a few distant short branches, lower bracts ovate lanceo- 
late 3 inch long green persistent; branches } inch long 
flowers 4 or 5 crowded at the ends. Calyx funnel-shaped entire 
à inch long. Corolla pale yellow, lobes ovate. Lip linear entire 
with a dark central spot. Anther with 4 equal triangular 
spurs. Capsule globose  pustular. 
Perak, Thaiping Hills 2-3000 feet. King (2414). (Curtis 
2073). 
Nearly allied to the last but distinguished by its broader 
persistent bracts at the base of the peduncle, and the calyx 
which is shaped like an old-fashioned conical goblet. 
G. versicolor Smith. Exot. Bot. t. 117 is mentioned as occur- 
lected it in Junk Ceylon, and saw it in a dwarf state near 
Malacca. (This latter plant was probably G. panicoides.) 1% 
oes not seem to have been seen in our region since. 
G. bulbifera Roxb. is stated in the Flora of British India to 
occur in the Malay Peninsula, but I have never seen it in a. wild 
state, nor does it occur їп any of the collections. 
HEDYCHIUM. 
Н. longicornutum Baker, ЕІ. Brit. India. vi. p. 228. 
An epiphytic plant with very thick grey fleshy roots which 
clasp the branches or stem ofa tree.  Rhizome short. Stems 
several about two feet tall, stout. 
glabrous except the margins which are hairy, dark ‘green, pur- 
plish beneath, one foot in length and four inches wide, ligule 
à ore long covered with 
brown silky hairs. Buds erect cylindrical acute scarlet. Calyx 
spathaceous oblique oue inch long slender pink. Corolla tube 
cylindrical slender 14 inch long, lobes narrowly linear deflexe 
red, three inches long by 4 wide. —Staminodes and lip similar 
linear undulate reflexed orange color, 11i ide. 
base white above, anther linear oblong orange 2 an inch long. 
Stigma projecting beyond, club shaped. Capsule oblong with 
