THE SCITAMINEZE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA, 151 
ое points. Flowers 2 inches long ea sh Calyx tubular 
three lanceolate points longer than the corolla. Corolla 
nt 
linear broad, anther bentatan obtuse syg more than 4 inch 
long deeply excavate dark crimson, pollen ite. Style very 
slender, stigma reniform slit linear, not Sone dark madder 
colour. Fruit obconic nearly glabrous half an inch long. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah, Sungei Buluh. Pahang, Kota 
Glanggi. Selanger, Dusun Tua. Perak (Wray No. 3). 
From the very short inadequate descr iption, Nicolaia pallida 
Horan. from Java may be the same pores This plant is 
really intermediate between the two section 
PLAGIOSTACHYS п. gen. 
Stems usually very talland stout with lanceolate leaves, 
pubescent. Flower spike thick borne on a peduncle covered 
z thi ^ 
leafy stalk. Вг ong ovate laciniate. Flowers nu- 
сөн small апа 8 alyx spathaceous short. Corolla 
e short and thick, lobes E or ovate fleshy. Lip flat 
Mir Stamen wit 8 thick filament an oblong 
anther, eet but with no ee Staminodes two short 
subulate processes. Style rather short. Capsule ovoid conic 
or oblong, three- d seed 3 or 4 in each cell, angled. 
alay peninsula and Borneo. 
The type species of this curious genus I referred originally 
to A пат being unwilling to make а new genus of it, as loug 
s the genus Amomum was understood as containing a heteroge- 
neous ас but Tam by no means certain now that the genus 
has not really more affinity with Alpinia. The peculiar position 
of the inflorescence is normally unique in the order. The 
fleshy simple flowers with a crestless anther are certainly more 
like those of some A/pinia than ее else, and Mr. Baker has 
referred P. strobi/ifera to that 
Р. strobiitfera n. Sp. Alpinia solum Bak. Kew Bulletin 1898. 
Stems about 2 feet tall fairly stout pubescen Lea 
lanceolate pubescent six inches — and three ib, sheath 
