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144 THE SCITAMINEZE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
6 inches long 13 wide, the pons one inch, base broad, no petiole 
оса, ligule very small sheaths somewhat hispid. Spike 
small few-flowered on a peduncle half an inch long. Bracks ovate 
rac 
cylindric ribbed pubescent. Calyx short. Corolla tube short 
about an inch lobes linear red. Lip narrow entire fleshy. 
Stamen filament short anther $ inch long hardly retuse at the 
apex. Style filiform stigma cup-shaped pubescent. Stylodes 
i inch vom thick. 
Pahang. К wala Tembelirg. 
The smallest species I have seen, easily distinguished by the 
few-flowered spike, the flowers somewha resembling those of 
. Leonurus but much smaller. 
H- pcm a. n. 
with the central bar thickened yellow. Stamen filament short, 
anther bent oblong emarginate deep red, pollen cells white. 
Style filiform, stigma cordate recurved white. Staminodes 
oblong truncate grooved, А 
Selangor. Abundant at the Caves, Gua Batu. 1895. 
This plant i is remarkable for the inflorescence being reduced 
to but 2 or 3 flowers, with thin ue eth white bracts sunk 
jn the ground so that only the upper part of the flowers appear. 
H. triorgyale n. sp. Amomum triorgyale Bak. 1. c. 237. 
Stems 18 feet tall stout pubescent. Leaves oblong acute 25 
feet long 7 inches across glabrous above softly pubescent be- 
neath, petiole 4 inch, ligule large. spike short and broad ovate 4 
inches long and 2 inches thro ough. Bracts broad ovate 2 inches 
long and wide longitudinally ribbed pubescent deep rose 
