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THE SCITAMINEZ ОЕ THE MALAY PENINSULA. 149 
Var. speciosa. Elettaria specios : ВІ. Enum. I. p. 51. A. elatior 
ook. Journ. Bot. I. p 359. 
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Native of the Peninsula, Java and Sumatra. Selangor, 
Rawang. Perak, Tambun near Ipoh, Larut (King’s Collector 
3075). 
Elettaria anthodioides I is probably the same plant but 
appears to be rather smaller 
H. fulgens n. sp. 
Rhizome stout and woody an inch through. Leafy stems 
about 15 feet tall and one inch through swollen at the base. 
long, ligule covered with brown wool. Scape four feet tall, 
stout 1 en through, covered with dark green sheaths rounded 
at the t and mucronate below the tip, head about 3 inches tall ° 
4 Nahen асгозз. Bract stiff coriaceous, lower ones broadly 
ovate with a stiff mucro 3 inches wide and long dull red outside, 
polished blood rea within edges greenish white. Inner bracts 
(floral ones) linear oblong obtuse dull red edged whitish mucro- 
nate. Flowers about as long as “benet; a spathaceous 
+ inch long. Stigma large style pubescent. Stylodes broad 
at the base lobulated a 
Perak, Larut hills. 
This species soet rom H. imperialis in its stouter and 
shorter scape broader and shorter head with stiff red ovate 
bracts, nearly iie calyx very shortly split, tongek and broader 
corolla lobes, xus yis stame en. In many ki pae it is inter- 
hemisphericum Hook 
H. venusta n. sp. 
Stems ten feet tall 12 inch through clubbed at the base, 
