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THE SCITAMINE® OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 179 
Leaves about six feet tall, blade oblong urate base broad 
two feet long and 8 inches wide glabrous green above whitish 
beneath, petioles four feet long.  Scapes rather slender about 8 
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inches long, spikes narrow fusiform six i ong. Br 
pale green ovate oblong truncate glabrous apices erect ot re- 
antheriferous one very narrow linear. Style stout. 
Perak in the Kinta valley on the limestone rocks at lpoh, 
and Kwala Dipang. : 
Closely allied to P. Grifithii but readily distinguished by: 
its much more slender cylindric spikes. 
Ph. jagoranum Koch. Wochenschrift. VI (1863) p. 358. 
Rather a small kind often forming masses on the ground. 
Leaves solitary or two or three, the blade 6 to 7 inches long, 
long fusiform slender on a terete peduncle an inch long. Bracts 
about 4 green lanceolate acute. Flowers in pairs. Sepals lan- 
e acuminate acute inch long green. orolla tube long 
anther on a narrow lateral lobe 
oblong. Lip more fleshy oblong rounded incurved, 
glabrous, with a rounded process оп one he inner 
ahd flattened and grooved ventral surface brown polished, the 
aril at the base oblong reddish with two long curved claws. 
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