108 THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
late acuminate about an inch long, narrow, spotted with red. 
Calyx one inch long tubular spathaceous entire spotted red, Co- 
rolla tube cylindric two inches long, } inch thick pale violet, 
lobes lanceolate cuspidate 4 an inch long ,3, inch wide, white 
inch long and wide, violet. Stamen, with the anther entirely 
outside the tube nearly 1 inch long, cells parallel rather fleshy 
Style longer than the anther purple. stigma capitate deep red 
purple. Siam, Kasum, (Curtis). 
his curious and pretty plant grows abundantly on the lime- 
stone rocks of Kasum, the rhizomes being imbedded so deeply 
in chinks of the rock that it is necessary to break away the rock 
to get at them. The gray green leaves and violet flowers make 
it an attractive plant. Structurally its most remarkable poiht is 
that the anther projects outside the tube entirely, instead of 
being concealed within as in the case of K. elegans, etc, and the 
style is also visible from the outside. 
GASTROCHILUS. 
This genus was first distinguished by Wallich who des- 
cribed two species from Kampferia as it then stood by 
Stamen thick and fleshy with an oblong anther, the crest of 
which is small rounded or | 
Distribution : India, the Malay peninsula and islands. 
