244 SCITAMINEAE OF BORNEO. 



leaf 4 inches long glabrous. Flowers small greenish 

 corolla tube terete slender i inch long, upper sepal 

 under i inch narrowly boat-shaped hooded with a 

 terminal process lateral lobes oblong broader. Lip f 

 inch long entire obovate rounded staminodes at base 2 

 short cylindric processes stamen shorter than the lip, 

 filament cylindric stout anther oblong with two horn- 

 like excurved tips, and a thin entire short rounded crest. 

 Capsule globose smooth \ inch through green, no re- 

 mains of calyx. 



Sarawak, Bau (Eidley). 



A. cylindrostachys, Schum. 



Matang (Eidley) Santubong (Hewitt). " Lip yellow 

 along the centre limited by a red streak on either side 

 rest of flower pale with a pink tinge." 



I should hardly agree with Schumann in classing 

 this plant as an Alpinia. 



A. brachypoda, Schum. 



Sarawak, Matang (Beccari). 



A. § Bintulua, polycarpa, Schum. 



Sarawak, Tubao Bintulu (Beccari). 



A. § Cenoloplion glabra, Eidl. 



This was described from a dried specimen of Havi- 

 land's collected on Santubong, I met with it at Bidi 

 again and drew up a description from the living plant 

 which may be of interest. The plant is biat 4 or 5 

 feet tall. The leaves deep green plicate. The panicle 

 curved about 5 inches long bearing about 20 flowers, on 

 white pedicels the ovary glabrous. Calyx tube nearly 

 straight white with 3 ovate lobes petals linear oblong, 

 the upper one hooded white. Lip much longer flat 

 depressed in the centre and tip decurved obovate edges 

 wrinkled crenulate base dark cherry red passing into 



Jour. Straits Branch 



