THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 115 
G. Prainiana n. sp. Kempferia Prainiana Bak. |.c. 220. 
Leaves lanceclate acute 8 inches long 14 wide, pubescent 
on the back with a petiole of equal length and a long slender 
spike of many imbricate bracts, rising directly from the rhizome 
about 9 inches tall. Flowers red and white. Corolla tube an 
inch long, lobes 4 an inch oblong ascending, lip oblong cuneate 
much longer. 
Perak, Goping, (King’s collector, No. 226.) 
My specimen has no flower, but the plant is very distinct 
in its long sessile cylindric spike. It should be sought again in 
the Kinta valley. 
G. tillandsioides. Bak. |.c. based on a drawing made by 
Kunstler from a plant probably collected in Perak, I have not 
seen, andas far as description goes I see but little difference 
between it and the preceding. 
A very curious plant 1 found at the base of Gunong Panti 
in Johore, has unusually large leaves ovate glabrous 9 inches 
long and 6 across, petiole 7 inches and one or more cylindric 
imbricated spikes in the centre, 6 inches long, the bracts 14 
inch long. I could find no trace of flowers, but imagine it 
belongs to this genus and if so is by far the largest species. 
G. calophylla n. sp. 
Rhizome short rather slender. Leaf solitary obovate 
rounded rather thick six inches long and four across, deep 
bluish green above with a white feather on each side, rosy pink 
beneath, petiole two inches long or more channelled rather 
stout. Inflorescence close to the leaf and enclosed with the 
petiole in a red sheath, about as long as the petiole. Bracts 
narrow lanceolate red, blunt with a minute point, ? inch lone 
rolled round the base of the flower, two to each spike. Spikes 
six in the inflorescence, on a peduncle an inch long. Calye 
tubular very short. Corolla tube one inch long lobes lanceolatx 
acute # inch long. Staminodes much shorter oblong obtuse 
rounded. Lip obovate bifid at the apex. All white except for 
a stain of pale yellow in the centre of the lip. Stamen short, 
anther oblong pubescent, crest broader than the anther rounded 
retuse. Stigma cup-shaped. 
