230 SCITAMINEAE OF BORNEO. 



careful drying separately from the inflorescence. This paper 

 must be taken therefore as a mere preliminary one for the 

 Scitamineae of Borneo. 



Globba. 



Gl. atrosanguinea, Teysm. and Binn. 



This pretty Globba with its large bright red bracts 

 and yellow flowers is abundant in the Sarawak woods, 

 Kuching (a small form), Bau (Eidley 11803), Bidi, 

 Puak, (Eidley), Barang(Haviland), Eejang, Sibu (Havi- 

 land 368). 



Gl. aurantiaca, Miq. 



Was obtained in Borneo by Korthals, no locality being 

 given for it. It is common in the Malay Peninsula. 



Gl. {marantella) propinqua, n. sp. 



Stems about 2 feet tall. Leaves lanceolate acumin- 

 ate narrowed into a short petiole glabrous above 

 beneath slightly pubescent 6 inches long If inch wide, 

 sheaths roughly short hairy, ligule oblong pubescent. 

 Eaceme nodding, shortly or not branched. Bracts 

 lanceolate oblong pubescent green approximate (when 

 young) i inch long. Eachis pubescent. Calyx tubular 

 rather long shortly 3 lobed, lobes ovate, mucronulate red. 

 Corolla tube rather long, petals lanceolate acute orange 

 yellow. Lip linear oblong, rather short apex emarginate, 

 lobes slightly divaricate orange yellow with a red central 

 spot. Filament long yellow, anther elliptic with four 

 nearly equal linear acuminate lobes, upper ones slightly 

 the broadest. Bulbils cylindric hairy reddish. 



Sarawak, Matang (Eidley 12260), Lundu, Bau (Eid- 

 ley). 



A plant with the habit of G. cernua, but resembling 

 Gl. aurantiaca, Miq. in the form of the flower. The 

 only yellow globba I have seen from Borneo. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



