THE SCITAMINE®A OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 95 
4 an inch bread, glabrous, liguleabsent. Panicle over six inches 
long with numerous branches 2 inches long or less with a few 
flowers at the: apex. lGracts linear lanceolate persistent J an 
inch long. Calyx slender tubular } inch long lobes lanceolate. 
Corolla tube very long and slender # inch long grey, lobes obtuse 
Loat-shaped less than 4 + inch lone yellow. Staminodes lanceolate 
oblong yellow. Lip lone and narrow deer ply bilobed lobes 
rounded. Filament very slender | 4an inch long, anther elliptic 
erey with a lanceolate acuminate spur on each side in the upper 
part of the anther, 
Siam. Bangtaphan in Bamboo-jungle. (Dr. Keith.) 
The very narrow leaves, and lone corolla tube, and the 
curious anther spurs easily distinguish this plant. 
Flowers white or violet, 
Gi leucanina. Mig. 1c. 612. 
Gl, “Re Bak, I. c. 204. 
Rhizome short, roots with tuberous fusiform swellings. 
Stems about two feet tall, often less. Leaves broadly lanceo- 
late acute, 8 incbes long and 3 across, very finely pubescent 
especially on the under surface, dark green above, purple be- 
neath, sheaths striate hispid usually spotted with purple, ligule 
short hardly $ inch long, rounded hispid. Panicle terminal 
rarelyradical, lax, with spreading branches two inches iong. 
Bracts ovate $ inch Jong. ‘Flowers in threes on the br anches, 
ivory white. Bracts ovate pure white. Calyx tubular with three 
teeth, two longer than the third, + inch long white shining, 
minutely pubescent. Corolla tube slender about 4 an inch long, 
lobes cymbiform 4 inch long. Staminodes narrower oblong a 
little longer. Lip short oblong rounded shortly bilobed, white 
with a purplish brown spot, (sometimes absent). Stamen nearly 
one inch long (above the corolla) anther cordate with two slen- 
der subulate horns a little longer than it, cells yellowish. se 
slender longer than theanther, ovary white pubescent. Sty- 
lodes cylindrical acute. Capsule globose 3. =; inch long polished 
smooth bright green. Seeds about 8, angled } inch long. 
Singapore, common on Bukit Timah, Chan Chu Kang, ete. 
Pulau Damar, Johore, Tanah Runto; Gunong Pulai; Gunong 
Panti (King). Perak, Dindings at Lumut. 
