THE SCiTAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. QJ] 
This plant is very near G. panicoides Miq,. differing in the 
absence of spurs to the anther, and the form of the calyx. It 
is possible that it is only an abnormal form. The Singapore 
plant produced leafless or aimost leafless stems bearing pani- 
cles. 
§ CERATANTHERA. 
Anither 2-spurred. Fiower yellow. 
Gl. panicoides. Miquel. l.c. 614. 
Gl. Kingit. Baker. l.c. 204. G. stenothyrsa Bak. |.c. 
Stems tufted, from nine inches to two feet in_ height 
usually rather slender, sheaths at the base spotted with red, more 
or less pubescent. Leaves narrow lanceolate acuminate to 
ovate acuminate 12 inch to 5 inches long and # to one and a 
half inch broad, ligule hispid. Panicle slender, the branches 
usually short sometimes rather long spreading. Flowers usu- 
ally few. Bracts lanceolate green. Calyx short unequaily 3 
toothed, one tooth much Jonger than the others, lanceolate 
blunt, orange ¢ inch long. Corolla tube } inch long, lobes 
cymbiform ; inch long orange. Staminodes rather longer 
oblong, orange. Lip short oblong bilobed orange with a dark 
brown central spot. Stamen filament one inch long, anther cells 
parallel, connective developed all round and at the base pro- 
longed into a pair of subulate spurs. Style longer than the 
stamen, stigma very small. Capsule globose smooth rounded 
green + inch long terminated by the enlarged calyx. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah and other woods; Muar (Feilding). 
Malacca, Sungei Hudang; Merlimau. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur, 
Batang Berjuntai, Petaling. Sungei Ujong; Bukit Tumiang. 
Perak. Bruas. Dindings. Province Wellesley, Tasek Gelugur. 
Lankawi, (Curtis 2642) also Linggaisland (Hullett). Sumatra on 
the Kelantan river, Siak. Borneo, Sandakan, Bongaya river, 
Labuk bay and Sarawak. 
This is a very common plant along stream banks and in 
damp spots in woods all over the Malay Peninsula. It is very 
variable in size, form of leaf, and length of panicle and its 
branches. The forms from Sarawak and Sandakan are stout 
broad leaved forms with branches an inch and a half long, and 
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