126 THE SCITAMINEZE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
three inches long by 2 through. Bracts ovate about 2 inch long, 
u s smaller lancolate, mucronate, witha sbort point, 
covered with hair-like processes. Bracteole similar but smaller. 
Fiowers solitary in the bracts, large and showy orange yellow. 
Calyx nearly one inch long tubular with three equal mucronate 
points hairy. Corolla tube 6 inches long wide, lobes oblong 
mucronate, pubescent. Lip convolute obovate 3 inches long 
and 2 inches wide. Stamen filament oblong rather short white 
woolly, tip rounded orange. 
Penang, Pulau Butong (Curtis. 1976) Balik Pulau, fl. July. 
Perak, Larut Hills (King’s Collector). 
This is very near C. g/obosus Bl. but is distinguished by its 
pubescent leaves, narrower more hairy bracts. with less long 
and-sharp points, and orange yellow flowers, The flowers аге 
about three inches long. The lip is not so wide as that of globo- 
sus and is edged with hairs. 
‚ ZINGIBER. 
_ This genus is very well marked by the curious prolonged 
point of the anther which occurs in no other genus I 
with Z. gracile. The spikes are cylindrical or conical, with large 
are one or more 
flowers. These are yellowish white, sometimes spotted with 
pink or mottled with black, on» or two only open ata time an 
they last but a day. The calyx is tubular aud short. The 
corolla tube projects but little beyond the bract, and the lobes 
are lanceolate or oblong. The lip is three lobed, the side lobes 
ich are 
