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longer calyces, but I can only consider them as extreme forms. 
1 have the authority of Dr. King for identifying G. Wing? 
Baker with the ill-described G. panicotdes of Miquel of which he 
has seen a type. It would indeed be strange if so very abun- 
dant and conspicuous a plant had escaped Miquel. I cannot from 
the description distinguish G. stencthyrsa Baker. from this plant. 
It is based on specimens from ‘Tenasserim collected by Parish, 
and from a plant collected by Cuming in Malacca. 
Like all other Globbas, this often produces bulbils in the 
axils of the bracts, and often the whole panicle produces bulbils 
instead of flowers. 
It is known to the Malays by a variety of names, wz. 
Haliya bhutan (wild ginger), Meroyan Tingal, and Meroyan 
B’rcboin, Pua Birah, Bunga Lidah Munta, Haliya K’ra. The 
slightly aromatic roots are used in native medicine for fever, 
and rheumatism. 
Gi. pendula Roxb. Asiat. Res. XI. 309) Pie Indio 
A large plant 3 feet or more tall. Leaves oblong cuspidate 
9 inches long, 4 across glabrous, ligule rounded pubescent, 
sheaths with pubescent edges. Panicle stout sometimes nearly 
2 feet long, branches short few-flowered, Bracts lanceolate 
caducous. Calyx funnel-shaped 4 inch long, with 3 unequal 
acute lobes. Corolla tube slender half a inch long, lobes cymbi- 
- form + inch lone orange yellow. 
Staminodes thin oblanceolate obtuse as long. Lip adnate 
from a little above the staminodes narrow bilobed orange with 
a maroon central spot nearly $ an inch long. Stamen filament 
over 3 an inch long, anther elliptic horns linear subulate 2 
about as long as the anther, connective prolonged above the 
anther into a rounded process. 
Penang. Banks close to the Waterfall. Perak on Max- 
well’s hill. Kedah Peak by the Cascade. Pahang, Tahan river. 
One of the biggest species. The name pendu/ais by no means a 
eood one, as the stout panicle is usually stiffly erect. 
Gl. montana 0.Sp. 
Stems about 2 feet tall. Leaves lanceolate cuspidate thin 7 
inches long 14 inch broad, with a long attenuate point, glabrous 
above paler pubescent beneath, petiole short but usually distinct, 
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