178 THE SCITAMINE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
a PHRYNIUM 
Ph. Grifithii Bak. l.c. 260. Ph. spicatum x Notulæ iii, 418. 
xb.)  itchenia musacea Bak. l.c. 225, Curcuma 
musacea Wall. Cat. 6596. 
Plant forming very large tufts, about five feet tall. Leaves 
erect blade oblong subaeute 2 feet long and 6 inches wide above 
light green beneath glaucous exce pt along one edge quite 
p arous ee long = slender je feet tall. Spikes from 
the bas inches long flattened on a peduncle about the 
same Ta шана whitish distichous, the edges connate at the 
base with the points recurved car tilaginons, 2 inches lon 
1j-broad. Flowers in pairs, each pair enclosed in a thin white 
fl 
white nearly + an inch long. Stamen tube little longer than 
corolla tube, the petaloid stamen is so deeply cleft as to appear 
to be two organs each lobe is spathulate with a claw with two 
involute edges and a broad expanded limb. Cucullate stamen 
rather narrow, the apex of the hood rather acute, the lateral 
lobe short and blunt, the edges yellow. Lip oblong obovate 
blunt rather fleshy the crest not transverse as usual but almost 
parallel with the line of the lip short thick and tongue-shaped, a 
long hairy ridge runs along the lower part of the lip in the same 
direction. Style very stout rounded on the tack and doubly 
grooved in front. Stigma depressed almost funnel shaped. 
se ed oblong with the a rounded and front flat, a 
small irregular white aril at the bas 
ense woods. Singapore, Bukit Timah, Jurong, etc. Johor 
Gunong Panti, Malacca, Bukit Bruang. Negri Sembilan, Bukit 
Tampin. Pahang, Tahan river. 
А common plant in the South. The flowers have a very 
sweet scent. 
Ph. cylindricum n. sp. 
A large tufted plant in the habit of P. брилі. Bak. 
