1 50 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



base rounded broad, sessile, 18 inches long, 3| to 4 inches 

 wide, ligule very short rounded entire. Flower spikes 

 cylindric acuminate, 7 inches long on a peduncle of the 

 same length covered with loose sheaths, all bright lemon 

 yellow. Bracts | to^ an inch across, rounded glabrous. 

 Inner bracts oblong acute 2 inches long. Calyx spatha- 

 ceous entire, mouth obliquely elliptic 1 inch long. Co- 

 rolla tube 2 inches long, lobes lanceolate acuminate over 

 an inch long creamy white. Lip trilobed, side lobes erect 

 rounded, mid-lobe oblong obtuse entire, the same colour 

 as the petals and nearly an inch long. Anther an inch 

 long with the long curved appendage. 



Singapore: Stagmount, in thick woods. In flower 

 April 1908. 



This superb species was certainly quite a surprise. 



1 had many times explored the Stagmount woods, but had 

 never came across this plant although I had been several 

 times close to where this time I discovered it. It belongs 

 to the same group as Z. gracile, Jack, and Z. Griffithii, 

 but is very distinct in its brilliant yellow spikes, those of 

 all the others of this group being pinkish red. It is 

 much larger in all its parts than any other species of this 

 section here except Z. puberula, Eidl. which rivals it in 

 height of stems at least. In flower spike and flower this 

 plant is bigger than any of this section. Its deep green 

 shining leaves and the numerous bright yellow spikes 

 make it the most attractive of its group. 



Plagiostachys albi flora, n. sp. 



A tufted plant about six feet tall. Stems several 

 rather swollen at th ebase and reddish, J an inch through. 

 Leaves lanceolate caudate narrowed at the base to the 

 petiole, 13 inches long 3 inches wide, glabrous, petiole 



2 inches long, ligule J inch long deeply cleft into two 

 rounded lobes. Spikes from near the base of the stems 

 oblong obtuse, solitary or three together 2 inches long, 

 1J inch thick. Flowers densely crowded. Bracts ob- 



Jour. Straits Branch. 



