THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 105 
curved, dotted black with an aril of whitish linear processes. 
Common on rocks and banks at 2000—4000 feet. 
Selangor; Bukit Kutu. Pahang, Tahan river. Penang, 
Goverment Hill. Perak, Thaiping Hills, Bujong Malacca, Goping 
(King 823). Tomoh (Machado). 
Var. angustifolia. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate, 3 inches long by 4 to one 
inch base narrowed into the petiole, petioles longer and more 
slender. 
Borneo, Sarawak, near Matang (Haviland, cm. m. i. ) 
C. lalifolia. n.sp. : 
Stem two feet tall or less, succulent. Leaves 1 to 4, cor- 
date acuminate 5 inches lone and 2 inches wide dark smooth, 
petiole one inch purple. Spathe ovate green an inch and half lone. 
Flowers several white or violet showy, Calyx tubular three- 
lobed spotted red. Corolla tube 14 inch lot. white, lobes lan- 
ceolate obtuse white. Lip orbicular bilobed 14 inch across 
white or violet, the ridges at the base yellow. Staminodes oblong 
obovate rounded white or violet. Antherlong narrow curved, 
base bifid translucent. Capsule oblong fawn-coloured 4 inch 
long, seeds numerous. 
Perak. Bujong Malacca; 8000-4000 feet alt, fl. Sept. on 
rocks or the ground. Without locality (Dr. King, No. 7219.) 
This is a very much larger and succulent plant. It has a very 
short rhizome and the stems are usually solitary, somewhat 
thickened at the base. The flowers are large and vary from 
pure white to violet. They last only afew hours. The seed 
often germinates in the spathe. 
K ©=MPFERIA. 
Hardly any species of this genus have yet been found 
wild within our boundaries, though some kinds occur in the 
Lankawi islands and in Southern Siam. A few however are 
cultivated as spices by the Chinese and occasionally turn up 
in waste ground. 
The genus if confined to the original K. rotunda L and 
its allies isa fairly distinct one, but unfortunately, Gastrochilus 
pandurata was described by Roxburgh asa Kempferia and 
