143 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



white. Lip as long oblong fleshy slightly tapering to the 

 blunt tip, concave with a median depressed line quite 

 entire except that occasionally there is a short tooth on 

 one side. Filament of stamen adnate below the anther 

 to the lip and forming a tube with it. Anther cells ob- 

 long white narrow. Connective very thick fleshy ending 

 above in an irregularly dentate thick appendage. Style 

 shorter than connective. Stigma thick and wide with a 

 transverse slit. Stylodes forming a complete circle with 

 numerous vertical grooves. 



New Ireland (Micholitz). 



This plant has long been in cultivation for its orna- 

 mental foliage. I saw it in Ceylon Botanic Gardens in 

 1888, and it appears to have been introduced before that. 

 It was named Castas zebrinus in Ceylon. Probably 

 Alpinia albolineata, Williams Cat. 1880 is the same 

 thing. The flowers do not appear to have ever been 

 described nor has any proper description of the plant 

 ever been published. It is only mentioned in Schumann's 

 v. Scitamineae in the P/?anzenreich. It is best I think to 

 refer it to the genus Alpinia though it differs from 

 typical species of that genus in the entire lip of the same 

 shape as the corolla lobes but more fleshy, and the pro- 

 longation of the very thick connective into a crest behind 

 the anther, and the lip connate with the filament up to 

 the anther. 



A. grandiceps, n. sp. 



A stout plant, stem over J inch through. Leaves ob- 

 long lanceolate caudate acuminate, base long acuminate 

 into a distinct petiole, blade 30 inches long, petiole 4 

 inches long subterete, width of blade 3 inches finely 

 appressed pubescent on both surfaces, petiole pubescent, 

 ligule oblong 3 inches long hairy on the edge, sheath 

 pubescent. Capitulum subterminal 4 inches through 

 nodding, outer bracts lanceolate acuminate papery 4 

 inches long, ribbed pubescent, edges silky hairy, ovate. 



Jour. Straits Branch. 



