140 THE SCITAMINE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
the deseription, Elettaria foetens Bl. E. minuta, E. coccinea and Е, 
minor Bl. ininga, E. rubra, E. paludosa, E. tomentosa, Miq. 
all of Java, but the descriptions published of these are inadequate. 
'To the сой 2 belong H. imperialis, H. Maingayi, H. venusta, 
H. hemisphoerica of the Peninsula, H. invo! lucrata ( Amomum 
involucratum Benth.) of Ceylon, H. Fenzlii (A. Fenzlii Kurz. 
of the Nicobars. A. am p pallida B! .) H. macroce- 
phala, (E. macrocephala М 
Н. scyphus Retz. € vi. 18. Amomum  scyphiferum Koenig. 
etz. Observ. iii. 68. Bak. l.c. 237, Stenochasma urceolare 
Griff. Notul. iii. "431, 
Rhizome stout and woody, stems ten feet tall 4 an 
an inch through. Leaves oblong base oblique, 2 feet long and 
six inches wide dark green and glabrous above, paler beneath 
and hairy along the midrib or all over, petiole 2 inch long, ligule 
oblong obtuse hairy, nearly half an inch long. Spike cylindric 
| bagan peduncle, covered with oblong ovate bracts red, 
outer з empty 2 inches long 14 broad longitudinally and 
pagas ribbed, thick and stiff in texture. Bracteoles lorate 
lanceolate 2 inches long 4 inch wide, tips dark red with a scari- 
ous margin, minutely mucronate. Flowers solitary in the bracts 
opening one or two at a time, 31 inch long. Calyx spatha- 
ceous an inch long three- lobed flattened red, lobes rounded 
red tipped with white, Corolla tube much longer slender red, 
the lobes lanceolate oblong, upper one hooded 3 inch long 2 wida 
lower ones shorter adnate to the lip below fot the greater part 
of their length, all deep shining red. Lipa little longer than the 
upper petal, side lobes rounded embracing the stamen, apex 
fleshy tongue-shaped dark red pubescent especially i in the centre. 
Stamen filament short broad, anther cells пог grey, oe 
rous 3-celled, ovules numerous, Capsule oblong obscurely tri- 
angular $ inch long, } inch through он white, thinly: carti- 
laginous. Seeds numerous black smosth truncate angled j',inch 
mag enclosed in an acid pul 
