104 THE SCITAMINEZX OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
Stamen projecting beyond the tube. Anther long slender curved 
dorsifixed versatile, the base prolonged into two parallel process- 
es, the upper part only polliniferous. Style slender, stigma 
capitate. Capsule oblong, seeds numerous small curved fusiform 
aril laciniate. ‘Two species occurring only on hills in the Peninsula 
and in Borneo. ‘These plants have been referred to the genus 
Kempferia, but though allied they are very distinct in the peculiar 
arrangement of the anther quite unique inthe order. Asin 
Keempferia the lip and staminodes are the showy part of the 
flower, being broad and petal like. On the lip at the base are 
two keels with a groove between leading to the tube which con- 
tains the honey. The antker is curved and narrow and fixed by 
the back on the filament so thatit swings readily, and the 
lower part is prolonged into a pair of long spurs. When a bee 
visits the flower it follows up the groove of the lip to insert its 
proboscis into the tube, and as its head touches the processes 
of the anther and pushes them back it brings down the upper 
part of the anther (where alone is any pollen,) and the stigma 
upon its back. Of course on visiting another flower the same 
thing occurs, and the pollen of the first flower is brushed off 
by the stigma of the second and so the flower is fertilized. 
Unlike Keempferia the Camptandras often set fruit, although 
the flower is open only fora few hours in the morning. This 
is doubtless due to the more certain working of this neat though 
simple mechanism. 
C. parvulan. sp. Kempferia parvula Bak. l.c. p. 238, 
A small herb about six inches tall. Stems several covered 
with sheaths below, leaves 4 or 5 ovate acuminate oblique, 
and unequal sided dark green, base broad, 2 to 8 inches long 
one inch wide, petiole slender an inch long. Spathe ovate 
acute an inch long. Flowers small, 1 inch across. Calyx + 
inch long tubular green, lobes very short. Corolla tube half an 
inch Jong white, lobes oblong truncate mucronate. Lip oblong 
orbicular bilobed crenulate white, with an ocre patch on the 
ridges and some pink marks inthe mouth. Staminodes sub- 
spathulate broad crenulate $ an inch long white. Anther cur- 
ved crescent-shaped, moveable. Stigma subtriangular. Cap- 
sule oblong thin $ an inch long, seeds numerous small fusiform 
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