102 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA: 
ing out of a tuft of Vanda, planted on a tree in the gardens. 
H. crassifolium Baker. FI. Brit, Ind. p. 228. I know 
nothing of, nor indeed by the description do I see anything to 
distinguish it by from //. longicornutum except that its bracts 
are said to be glabrous and not hairy. It was obtained in Perak 
by Dr. King’s collector. 
HI, macrorrhizum nN. sp. 
Epiphytic, rhizome branched thick resembling that of 
ginger. forming a large mass on the tree. loots thick terete. 
Stems about a foot tall, + inch through. Leaves lanceolate 
acute glabrous eight inches long by two wide tapering to a short 
petiole below, ligule short, obtuse. Spike nodding lax about 
ten inches long. Bracts oblong obtuse one inch long + inch wide 
about 12, distant green hairy at the base. Flowers two or three 
in each. Calyx narrow pubescent cylindrical nearly one inch long 
with two very short teeth. Corolla tube very slender 14 inch 
long, lobes very narrow linear, one inch long. Staminodes simi- 
lar. Lip narrow deeply bifid, lobes lanceate curved about # of 
an inch long, all white. Stamen slender 145 inch exserted. 
Anther very narrow linear. Style shorter than the stamen. 
Selangor on a lofty fallen tree. Pahang track, 15th mile. 
fH. denticulatum un. sp. 
Terrestrial. Stems tufted about two feet tall numerous. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate glabrous with small thornlike pro- 
cesses along the edge 8 inches long or more, 3 inches wide, 
petiole $ inch long. sheaths finely hispid ribbed. Panicle ter- 
minal about a foot long branches short three flowered. Calyx 
brown papery tubular unequally bilobed 4 an inch long. Corolla 
tube straight cylindric. Dorsal petal narrow linear involute, apex 
cupshaped, pinkish, lower part green, $ an inch long, lateral 
petals lear spathulate deflexed adnate to the lip at the base, 
Lip narrowly dilated at the apex and ending in three lobes, the 
lateral lobes curved forwards, the middle one bifid, all toothed, 
base of lip channelled, edges thickened red, the rest green. 
Staminodes narrow linear shorter than the petals red. Stamen 
long rather thick arched white pubescent nearly twice as long 
as the upper petal, Anther large oblong, pinkish. Style a little 
