164 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
processes at the base pink. Stamen about an inch long filament 
broadly linear white, anther notched at the apex, bent at an angle 
with the filament, cells linear, fleshy, thick. Style very slender 
fusiform, stigma rounded. Stylodia ovoid blunt small. Fruit 
small + inch long elliptic red with one or two rounded seeds 
only. 
‘Commonly cultivated and cm persisting after the ground is 
abandoned. This, the * Lankwas” of the Malays, whence its 
ms Galanga, does not seem to pe knownin a wild state any- 
where. 
А. Zingiberina Bak. (Bot. Mag. t. 6944) the Siam ginger, 
much resembles this but is distinct in the form of the lip which 
has no distinct claw, but is obovate and notched all round the 
edge, and much less deeply bilobed. 
А. scabra. vem оа Plant,iii 648. Bak. lc. 256. Hellenia scabra 
Bl, Enu 
A tall mes i stems abont six feet tall. Leaves lanceolate 
cuspidate a foot and a half long and two inches broad dark green 
(drying pale greenish) scabrid on the upper surface, petiole 
e 
small on pedicels nearly 2 inch long ebra cteate, white. Calyx 
сеа, 4 inch long, “with three teeth. Corolla tube longer 
rather slender curved, lobes жге oblong obtuse, 4 inch 
long, ool one- -hooded, white. Lip narrow icu than the 
petals, deeply bifid lobes linear md. "Bath n long filament 
linear slender, anther cells sed oo orit very short. 
Capsule globose smooth 2 inch t à 
This plant grows in woods on "the hills a& about 1000 feet 
altitude, Its general appearance is that of A. galanga. The 
leaves are dg: scabrid when dry. 
J e, Gunong Pulai. Selangor, Bukit Hitam. (Kelsall). 
Perak, Thaiping hills; Bujong Malacca. Kedah, Kedah Peak. 
A. rosella n.sp. 
A small tufted plant stems about 2 feet tall rather slender. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate with a long point glabrous rather 
