THE SCITAMINE/E OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 189 
Distinct in its narrow grassy leaves, and very small flowers. 
A. macrodus Scort. Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. xviii 309 from 
the Kinta Valley, Perak, has well developed staminoles, and a 
simple anther crest. Itis perhaps а Gastrochilus. I have never 
met wit 
HORNSTEDTIA. 
This genus was founded by Retz ( piu ies c. iii. ) on the 
two common species of the peninsula H. seyphus H. Leonurus. 
looking Retz’ work, made two genera Srenochasma and Achasma, 
and finally they were all placed. under dom by Bentham 8 ; 
Hooker, who was followed by Baker. I ose to restore 
genus and to include also under it the beautiful plants oikaisi d 
Pheomeria Lindl. and Nico/aia Horan. e genus thus may be 
described. Plants with tall rarely short leafy stems, often 12 to 
15 feet tall. Leaves numerous oblong petioled. Spikes radical 
on short or long peduncles, with large outer bracts usually red, 
ovate or oblong, forming а cup or spreading. Bracteoles thin 
tubular. Flowers sessile numerous. Calyx spathaceous thin. 
Corolla long er short-tubed, lobes oblong narrow not spreading. 
Lip narrow “often Jong, linear or narrowly oblong, the sides at 
the base convolute over the stamen. Stamen short and thick, 
anther fleshy, bent at an angle with the filament, crest very 
small or none. Staminodes none. Capsule oblong with thin 
cartilaginous walls and numerous black seeds, or (section Phæo- 
meria) or with a green fleshy pericarp and bony walls 
and brown angled seeds. Species about 20 known, scarce in 
тойа. kanda? in the Malay peninsula and the Western part of 
the Malay archipela 
eon. Bu-hornstedtia. Spikes on very short peduncles 
buried in the ground. Tube of flowers very long, lip long. Fruit 
onceng in the persistent outer bracts, thin-walled oblo ong. 
Section 2. Pheomeria. Spikes on tall peduncles, cone- 
shaped or cup-shaped. ‘Tube of flowers and lip short. Fruit glo- 
oody the outside green and fleshy, arranged in a ball, the 
азб having disappeared. 
T former section besides those of the Malay pin 
belong Alpinia linguiforme Roxb. of India, and apparently from 
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