THE SCITAMINEZE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 125 
C. globosus Bl. Enum. Pl. Jav. 62. 
Stems tall rather slender woody 6 to 8 feet high, bases 
covered with thin reddish brown sheaths. Leaves on one side of 
inches across dark green above lighter beneath, nerves above 
conspicuous with transverse reticulations glabrous agak e, midrib 
pubescent or not. Spike from the rhizome on a short thick 
woody horizontal or ascending pedunc!e 3 inches joue and half 
an inch thick, ш many flowered three inches long and 
half an inch thick, prickly from the sharp points of the bracts. 
Bracts stiff cartilagineous broadly ovate with a sharp stiff mucro 
half an inch long striate red covered with short blunt processes, 
an inch long including ge point. 8. solitary in the bract, 
large and showy, but. fugacious, cherry rel. Bracteole like the 
bract but inequilateral and smaller. Giles tubular cartilaginous 
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inged with hairs. Stamen filament broad thin 3 
inch across, connective oblong much wider than the “ше crest 
ovate obtuse recurved red, back of stamen covered with ite 
wool, anther + an inch long oblong white. Style slender thick- 
ened upwards. Stigma transversely oblong, slit transverse. 
sd and banks in wet woods. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah. Je ohore, Gunong Panti. Selangor, 
Petaling, боа Вай. Perak, Mas well’s Hill. Pahang, Tahan river. 
us Jjong, Bukit Tampin ; ; Perhentian Tinggi. A native 
also of Jay 
С. у Baker. Flor. Brit. Ind. lc. 250. 
m about six feet tall slender. Leaves oblanceolate oblong 
AE 8 inches long by 3 wide glabrous above, softly pubes- 
cent lereath, sheaths 2 inches long hispid ribbed, ligule hardly 
distinct with no long hairs on the edge. Spike from the rhizome 
on à long, stout peduncle over 2 inches long, conical cylindric, 
