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covered with sheaths, 3 inches long. Bracts ovate 

 papery pubescent pale brown when dry acute \ inch 

 long. Ovary silky. Calyx campanulate \ inch long, 

 pubescent with short broad rounded lobes. Corolla 

 tube funnel-shaped, as long as calyx tube, lobes oblong 

 obtuse white pubescent. Lip very fleshy oblong apex 

 fimbriate, white with a yellow central: bar. Staminodes 

 % long slender setiform . Anther oblong with 2 small linear 

 side auricles, no terminal crest, pubescent, style hairy. 

 Capsule globose pubescent, terminated by the short 

 thick calyx tube. 



Sarawak. Common in the woods at Kuching. 



One plant I found had 2 complete anthers. 



A. ccrasinum, n. sp. 



Stems very tall about 10 feet pruinose. Leaves oblong 

 lanceolate with a very broad base, and a long (inch) cusp 

 15 inches long 4 inches wide glabrous except the edges 

 and covered with yellowish hairs, petiole 1 inch long 

 channeled back rounded, ligule oblong J inch long 

 glabrous, sheath ribbed glabrous spikes 3 inches long, 

 rachis silky. Bracts white lanceolate acute 1 inch long. 

 Bracteoles lanceolate. Epicalyx tubular J inch long, 

 with 3 equal ovate lobes calyx 1 inch long lobes linear 

 white as long as the corolla tube. Corolla cherry red, 

 petals an inch long, upper one hooded, lower ones with 

 a white central bar oblong obtuse. Lip large side lobes 

 broad rounded as long as the petals white dentate 

 spotted with red on the edge, midlobe bifid short oblong 

 narrow dentate, with 3 red bands, and 2 broad red 

 bands on the inside of the side lobes. Stamen creamy 

 white, the anther with a broad semilunar entire crest, 

 no distinct central lobe. Fruit globose an inch through 

 green. 



Sarawak, on the lower slopes of Matang, (Ridley 

 12421). 



Jt. A. Soc, No. 46, 19C6. 



