122 TH# SCITAMINE® OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
numerous oblong truncate green sheathing leaves 2 inches long 
split almost to “the base; spikes very dense many flo wered. 
Bracts light green stiff ovate acute 4 inch long. ^ Bracteole 
broadly ovate nearly encircling the flower. Calyx shortly tabular 
thinly cartilaginous, with three equal lobes, 2 inch long 43; inch 
wide. Corolla tube short and thick, lobes elliptic oblong obtuse 
мена чуар white, upper one 4 an inch long and 3 inch wide, 
e lower ones shorter. Staminodes short linear from a broad 
base blunt pale red. Lip three lobed,*lateral lobes erect rounded 
midlobe oblong obtuse rounded 1 inch across, centre depressed 
thickened bright yellow with pale red stripes on the side lobes. 
Stamen 3 an inch long, filament linear, antherdilate, with two 
curved iat | arms Lin inch long. All ‘yellow spotted with red. 
clu with : narrow transverse slit. Capsule glo- 
bose 4 3 an incli lon ong dark purple, seeds numerous 
erak. Maxwell's Hill (No. 2959), Bujong Malacca (9788.) 
C. utriculosum n. sp. 
Rhizome very еы заста considerably above the ground 
on stout roots, thic з about six feet tall clubbed at the 
- base. Leaves е ог кие аа lanceolate cuspidate narrowed 
at the base, 16 to 18 inches long 2 to 4 inches wide, glabrous, 
petiole one inch long or less channelled, ligule oblong obtuse 
glabrous. Spike terrestrial on a stout peduncle six inches tall 
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Corolla tube short and thick, lower lobes oblong uim thin 
punctate posticous one much broader rounded at the apex. Lip 
yellow with red v Staminodes linear flat apex rounded. 
Stamen filament Беи апі thin three-veined rather short, anther 
cells thick linear, crest ovate rounded with curved linear lateral 
arms, Style longer, stigma funnel-shaped. Capsule oblong, 
fusiform one inch long. Seeds numerous black small. 
