New Malayan Plants. 



By H. N. Ridley, 



The following" plants apparently undescribed have turned 

 up lately in various collections made in the Peninsula. 



SCITAMINE.aE. 



Zingiber Wrai/ii, Prain mss. A slender plant over a foot tall. 

 Leaves elliptic, lanceolate, glabrous, 9 inches long", 3 inches 

 wide, narrowed at the base but not petioled. Peduncle 4 

 inches tall covered with large loose sheathing leaves, 

 spike three inches long, ovoid obconic. Bracts thin 

 elliptic 1-J-inch long -J inch wide or less. Flowers soli- 

 tary yellow. Bracteole spathaceous, lip spotted and 

 marked with purple. Anther narrow linear, beak half an 

 inch long. 



Upper Perak at 300 feet elevation (Wray 3735). 

 The only specimen I have seen is in poor condition but 

 it seems a distinct plant from any described, from its 

 rounded head of thin bracts, most of the allied species 

 having cylindric spikes. 



Elettariopsis cyanescens, n. sp. Rhizome J inch through, violet 

 inside, covered with dry sheaths, stems 18 inches tall, 

 rather slender base, olivaceous. Leaves 8, lanceolate 

 acuminate glabrous 6 inches long 1^ inches wide, hardly 

 petiolate, ligule rounded short. Spike short, peduncle 

 half an inch long covered with long dry lanceolate bracts 

 lj inches long-, flowers four. Ovary oblong pubescent^ 

 inch long. Calyx tube 1 J inches long, pubescent at the 

 base, apex long acuminate. Corolla tube narrow \ inch 

 longer pubescent, lobes oblong half an inch long £ inch 

 wide lip, oblong rounded 1 inch long. All white except 

 the tip of the lip which is blue. Stamen oblong, crest 

 moderately large, stigma large cup-shapedj with pubes- 

 cent edges. 



B. A. Soc.No. 41, 1903 



