-96 THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
A very pretty species, the whole of the inflorescence 
being pure white and much of it polished like ivory, It frequents 
rather dry parts of woods often growing on rocks. lorms 
occur in which the leaves on some of the flowering stems are 
suppressed, the stems being merely covered with sheaths 
In one plant the stem bore axillary panicles as weil as the 
terminal one. Bulbils are often to be met with on the lower 
branches of the panicle but more rarely than in other species. 
Gi. albiflora n. sp. 
Stems three feet tall. Leaves narrowly lanceolate acuminate 
cuspidate eight inches long, one inch broad, glabrous green 
witha silvery grey variegation along the midrib when young, 
ligule very short, sheath glabrous. Panicle 12-15 inches 
long with distant slender branches spreading, one inch long or 
less. Bracts persistent linear obtuse nearly + inch long. Flo- 
wers white, one or two only on the ends of the branches, Calyx 
tubular with short lanceolate lobes. Corolla tube very slender 
4 an inch long, lobes boat-shaped ovate. Staminodes longer 
oblong linear. Lip short obcuneate bilobed, lobes rather long 
divergent. Filament 2 inch long anther oblong, spurs 2 linear 
acuminate faleate, longer than the anther. 
Penang: Government Hill near the cooly lines (Curtis 
2851). <A rather slender, narrow leaved plant, remarkable for 
its lone persistent bracts, and long upcurved spurs of the anther. 
Gil. elegans n. sp. 
Stems over a foot tall rather slender. Leaves lanceolate 
acuminate minutely pubescent beneath, 5 inches long, 14 inch 
wide, ligule and margin of sheath hispid. Panicle erect rather 
slender with short stiff spreading branches half an inch long. 
Bracts lanceolate green persistent $ inch long. Flowers few 
crowded atthe ends of the branches, white. Calyx unequally 3 
Jobed, lobes acute, + inch long, Corolla tube nearly 4 an inch long, 
lobes, oblong ovate obtuse *. inch long. Staminodes very 
similar and as long, Lip short oblong ovate obtuse entire white 
with a violet central spot. Filament an inch long, spurs of 
anther linear curved up at the ends 4, inch long, Capsule glo- 
bose smooth 4 inch long 
