THE SCITAMINEJE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 157 
E. multiffora n. sp. 
Rhizome far creeping woody. Stems tall rather stout nearly 
half an inch through. Leaves numerous lanceolate cuspidate 
glabrous shortly petiolel, one foot long two inches wide, ligule 
short rounied, sheath about three inches long Flowering stems 
over two feet long slender, branched. Spike es secunl ver 
numerous and close together, sheathing leaves obleng cuspidate 
ribbed 4 inch long by 4inch wide. Flowers five or six in a 
spike, rather small. Bracteoles lanceolate short. Calyx tube 
very slender one inch long, lobes equal oblong lanceolate cuspi- 
date pubescent, points ciliate 8 inch long. Corolla tube as long 
as calyx lobes s obovate spathulate 3 inch long more than 4 
neh wid i Lip entire obovate pubescent white with a 
pies yellow bar and red m arkings an inch long. Stamen 
filament broad, crest rounded ibus small, 
n the Kelantan river near Siak (8972). 
A very distinct species in its slender flower stems crowded 
with spikes each jenene five or six et but pretty Hover 
only one or two of these however are out at once, I fou 
growing in a dense а swamp, ће stems creeping rco 
almost liquid mud, decayin » leaves anl w 
GEOSTACHYS. 
Rhizome stout woody, not subterranean, with stout roots. 
| the gr se (uo one species erect). онен 
secund, two or three іп a dry w pery bract on a short 
uncle, projecting but little roii the inyolute bract. Calyx 
tubular spathaceous wi entire cuspidate limb, corolla 
short filament and — anther with a small rounded crest or 
none, — 
Thi nus is a allied to Alpinia with which it was. 
doubtfully sais by Baker under the section Geostachys which 
I have reserved for its generic name. 16 differs in the flowers 
being borne not on the ends of the leafy stems, but in lateral 
leafless ones, also in the peculiar dry brown bracts which are 
