THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 115 
G. Prainiana n. sp. Kæmpferia Prainiana Bak. l.c. 220. 
Leaves lanceolate acute 8 inches long 14 wide, pubescent 
on the back with a petiole of equal length and a long slender 
spike of many imbricate bracts, rising directly from the rhizome 
about 9 inches tall. Flowers red and white. Corolla tube an 
inch long, lobes $ an inch oblong ascending, lip oblong cuneate 
much longer. 
erak, Goping, (King’s collector, No. 226. 
My specimen has no flower, but the plant is very distinct 
in its bur sessile cylindric spike. It should be sought again in 
the Kinta valley 
G. tillandsioides. Bak. l.c. based on a drawing marg 
Kunstler from a plant probably collected in Perak, "I have not 
seen, and as far as GUN HON goes I see but little difference 
between it and the di 
A very curious plant 1 Той at the lase of Gunong Panti 
in Johore, has unusually large leaves ovate glabrous 9 inches 
long and 6 across, petiole 7 7 inches and one or more гуын 
imbricated spikes in the centre, 6 inches long, the bracts 14 
inch long. І could find no trace of flowers, but imagine it 
belongs to this genus d if so is 35 far the largest species. 
G. calophylla n. sp. 
izome short rather slender. Leaf solitary obovate 
rounded rather thick six inches long and four across, deep 
bluish green above with a white feather on each side, rosy pink 
beneath, petiole two inches long or more c elled rather 
florescence close to the leaf and enclosed with the 
petiole ia а red sheath, about as long as the iole. Brac 
narrow lanceolate red, blunt with a minute point, $ inch long 
rolled round the base of the flower, tw ike. Spikes 
six. in the inflorescence, on uncle an inch long. Calye 
tubular very short. Corolla tube one inch long lobes lanceolatx 
acute 3 inch long. Staminodes much shorter oblong obtuse 
rounded. Lip obovate bifid at the apex. zi white except for 
a stain of pale yellow in the centre of t ip Stamen short, 
anther oblong pubescent, crest broader oe the anther rounded 
retuse. Stigma cup-shaped. 
