234 SCITAMINEAE OF BORNEO. 



G. parvus, Eidl. 



Sarawak. Bidi (Eidley). 



G. reticosa, Eidl. 



Sarawak, Bidi (Eidley). 



Gastrochilus pulchella, n. sp. 



Stems several short covered with red sheaths, 2 

 inches tall. Leaves 3, ovate to lanceolate acute base 

 rounded 3| inches long l|-2 inches wide bright shining 

 green with about 8 pairs of nerves conspicuous above, 

 petiole 1-li inch long. Spike shorter acute several 

 flowered bracts lanceolate acuminate cuspidate red. 

 Flowers opening singly. Corolla tube just pro- 

 jecting about 1 inch long, lobes linear oblong obtuse 

 white. Staminodes rounded oblong yellowish shorter 

 than the stamen. Lip i inch long entire, sides elevat- 

 ed, saccate, white, a central bar A shaped and the tip 

 broad and rounded cherry crimson. Filament short, 

 anther oblong not crested pubescent. 



Sarawak Bidi, Jambusan Caves. In wet woods. 

 Flowering September to January. 



This resembles G. pulcherrima, Wall, of Burma, but 

 differs in its smaller size, short stem, leaves and spike, 

 the lip is beautifully colored with its crimson red tip 

 behind which is a white spot surrounded by the arms 

 of a A of which the stem runs to the lip base. 



CUECUMA. 

 C. aromatica, L. 



" Entimut or Entimu," much used by Dyak women 

 as soap, and in medicine for shingles. Kuching, (E. 

 Shelford). 



Zingiber parpliyrosphaerd, Schum. 



Sarawak Eejang, (Haviland). 



Jour Straits Branch 



