152 THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
tomentose, ligule very short pubescent. р lateral 3 inches 
long, rachis tomentose. Flowers numerous $ an inch long, 
crowded, buds red, shortly stalked. Bracks “brownish 1 inch 
long ovate hairy outside. Calyx cartilaginous tubular 3-lobed 
red. Corolla tube barely as se thick, lobes oblong, upper one 
base reddish orange. der large oblong retuse pubescent 
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British North Borneo, Bongaya River 1897; Sandakan 
(Creagh) 
Pl. lateralis nsp. Amomum laterale Rid. Trans. Linn. Soc. ІШ. p 
381. 
A stout plant usually about six feet tall, with a thick under- 
ground rhizome. Leaves lanceolate acuminate pubescent 24 feet 
long, 4 inches wide, dark green, petiole one inch long, “ше 
obtuse bilobed 2 inch long. Spike about six inches long protr uded 
a foot or more ‘above the ground from ке side of the stem, зоше. 
ores branched, sas cylindrical, on a peduncle covered with 
ovate sheaths. bracts oblong with {кси edges. Calyx conic 
tubular as long as the ie white. Corolla tube thick 1 inc 
long, lobes ovate acute dark red fleshy. Lip short obtuse flat 
emarginate, fleshy orange yellow, papillose. Stamen filament 
short “thick pubescent, anther oblong pubescent white. Stami- 
nodes two short acute teeth. Stylodes flesh colour oblong trun- 
cate, with a short blunt tooth. Capsule 4 an inch long, ovoid 
conic beet walled, pale brown. Seeds 3 - 4 in each cell. 
ingapore, Bukit Timah, Bukit Mandai, Reservoir Woods. 
Negri Sembilan, Perhentian Tinggi 
Another species I found in fruit on Gunong Panti in Johore 
was as large as the last species but had spikes six inches long 
and oblong fruit + an inch in length containing about 12 black 
angled seed very “aromatic. 
ELETTARIOPSIS. 
This genus is most closely allied to cranes in and like it is 
almost peculiar in having the flower spikes borne on long creep- 
ing branches generally imbedded in mud, and rooting at inter- 
The rhizome is slender and oid y slightly aromatic. The 
