100 THE SCITAMINEZX OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
beneath, ligule very short glabrous. Panicle short nodding 
with a few distant short branches, lower bracts ovate lanceo- 
late + inch long green persistent; branches 3 inch long, 
flowers 4 or 5 crowded at the ends. Calyx funnel-shaped entire 
inch long. Corolla pale yellow, lobes ovate. Lip linear entire 
with a dark central spot. Anther with 4 equal triangular 
spurs. Capsule globose pustular. 
Perak, Thaiping Hills 2-8000 feet. King (2414). (Curtis 
2073). 
Nearly allied to the last but distinguished by its broader 
persistent bracts at the base of the peduncle, and the calyx 
which is shaped like an old-fashioned conical goblet. 
G. versicolor Smith. Exot. Bot. t. 117 is mentioned as occur- 
ring in the Malay Peninsula by Roxburgh and by Koenig, who col- 
leeted it in Jus Ceylon, and saw it in a dwarf state near 
Malacca. (This latter plant was probably G. panicoides.) Vt 
does not seem to have been seen in our region since. 
G. bulbifera Roxb. is stated in the Flora of British India to 
occur in the Malay Peninsula, but I have never seen it in a wild 
state, nor dues it occur in any of the collections. 
HEDYCHIUM. 
H, longicornutum Baker, Fl. Brit. India. vi. p. 228. 
An epiphytic plant with very thick grey fleshy roots which 
clasp the branches or stem of a tree. Rhizome short. Stems 
several about two feet tall, stout. Leaves oblong acuminate 
elabrous except the margins which are hairy, dark green, pur- 
plish beneath, one foot in length and four inches wide, ligule 
oblong lanceate two inches long, sheath hairy. Flower spike 
terminal four inches long dense, Bracts lower ones ovate ; upper 
ones narrower lanceolate, one inch or more long covered with 
brown silky hairs. Buds erect cylindrical acute scarlet. Calyx 
spathaceous Cong he oue inch lone slender ae Corolla tube 
cylindrical slender 15 inch long, “lobes narrowly linear deflexed 
red, three inches long by 4 wide. Staminodes nd lip similar 
linear undulate reflexed o1ange color, 14 inch long = inch wide. 
Stamen five inches long base stout tapering upwards pinkish at the 
base white above, anther linear oblong orange $ an inch long. 
Stigma projecting beyond, club shaped. Capsule oblong with 
