114 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
truncate. Style considerably longer thick above the anther, 
stigma cup-shaped. 
Lankawi Islands on limestone rocks, (Curtis 2896). 
The most peculiar point about this plant is that the anther 
cells apparently open at the top only and do not split for their 
whole length as is usual. There is a large depression behind 
the anther formed by the broad and short crest from which the 
long style protrudes. ‘The back of the leaves are pubescent, 
and in the picture the upper surface is represented so also, but 
I do not see any hairs here in the specimen, nor are they men- 
tioned in the description. 
G. clivalis n. sp. 
Rhizome rather slender with long roots. Leaves 3 or 4 in 
a tuft, ovate to lanceolate acute narrowed at the base into the 
petiole inequilateral 43 to 8 inches long and 2 inches wide, _ peti- 
ole 5 or 6 inches long sheathing for about 3 inches, all glabrous 
except about the midrib on the back which bears scattered hairs, 
Spike central 3 inches long, enclosed in the sheaths. Bracts 
long and narrow containing four or five flowers each with two 
Jong narrow linear acute transparent bracteoles one inch long 
and 4 inch wide. Calyx tube very narrow half an inch long, 
with three lanceolate lobes, two longer than the third. Corolla 
tube slender dilated a little upwards 2 inches long, lobes linear 
4 an inch long by % inch wide. Lip oblong entire apex rounded, 
crisped, median bar thickened. Staminodes of the length of the 
corolla lobes but broader and blunt. Stamen filament rather 
slender, anther oblong thick with an oval crest longer than the 
club shaped stigma. 
Selangor, Pahang Track, 15th Mile, on banks. 
G. pandurata. Ridl. Kempferia pandurata. Roxb. Asiat. Res. 
XT. 320 t. 2. ! 
The ‘“Temu Kinchi”’ of the Malays is sometimes cultivated 
here, the rather stout rhizome which is yellow inside and very 
aromatic being used in medicine. It is probably a native of 
India. ‘The leaves are about 5 in a tuft oblong ovate with a 
broad base and long petiole. The spike is short and central. 
The flowers are white or pink, lip saccate white with pink spots. 
