THE SCITAMINEZE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 117 
Pahang at Kwala Tenok; Tahan river, July 1891. 
G. oculata n.sp. 
Rhizome rather toig L ng. Leaf solitary ovate gla- 
brous 8 inches long by 44 wide, dark green, purplish beneath, 
with the base of the petiole. Spike 14 inch long. Bracts ovate 
to lanceolate 4 an inch E red, lower ones blunt, upper ones 
acute. Flowers 2 in a bract. Calyx 4inch long, lobes 2 very 
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lanceolate acute # inch long. Staminodes oblong lanceolate 
obtuse broader, pubescent l inch long white. ip obovate 
bilobed, 4 an inch long an as wide white, veces yellow 
1 2 deep crimson patches at the base, ‘Stam 1 filament 
groove between, pubescent, crest very short r 
Selangor, Pahang track on banks at about 1300 feet altitude. 
CURCUMA. 
e Turmerics are not very strongly represented їп the 
Malay Feainsuls. The head = of the genus lying further 
north in Northern India and Burmah. Very few occur in the 
Malay islands and of those that p it may b» doubted isti 
most of them are not aliens. The genus is closely allied to 
Gastrochilus chiefly differing in the cone-like flower spike with 
very broad bracts, the upper ones often differently colored 
from the lower ones, and as long or longer than the flowers. 
The rhizome is usually stout ani strongly aromatic and bears 
the rhizome and are from two to six or more in a tuft, usually 
oblong, or oblong ovate with long petioles. The flower spikes 
are in all our native species produced i in the centre of the leaf- 
