120 THE SCITAMINEZA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
C. longa L. Turmeric, “ Kunyet,” is often cultivated by 
Chinese, but I have never seen it establish itself anywhere as 
Zedoary does. It is a much smaller plant with lght green 
leaves, and ashort spike with pale green bracts at the base and 
pink ones atthe top. The flowers are yellow. 
C. grandiflora Wall. Baker FI. Brit. Ind. Vc. 216. Malay 
Peninsula, Wallich. I have never seen anything like here. 
- There is some doubt as to where the plant came from, but it 
was probably not collected in the peninsula. | 
C. (Hitcheniopsis) Kunstler? Bak. |.c. 214. 
Rhizome horizontal rather stout. Leaves in pairs obovate 
cuspidate 12 inches long and six inches across above deep green 
shining ribbed, the back purple pubescent, keel thick channelled 
four inches long. Spike from between the leaves about four 
inches long broad shortly peduncled. Bracts few about an inch 
broad with rounded apices deep red ; inner bracts shorter oblong 
ovate cartilagineous deep red. Flowers rather large protruded 
from the bracts. Calyx nearly half an inch long cylindric deeply 
split apex obscurely trifid red. Corolla tube an inch long enlarg- 
ed upwards white ; lobes lanceolate acute $ an inch long white. 
Staminodes oblong obtuse striate white pubescent. Lip obovate 
obtuse denticulate apex bilobed, base channelled. edges of 
channel elevated, yellow darker in the centre and at the base 
with a few pink streaks. Stamen pubescent witha broad fila- 
ment, anther oblong + inch long emarginate. Stigma small 
rounded and beaked. ‘This plant grows in dense damp jungles 
often in great masses. The leaves are usually purple on the back, 
but sometimes all green. It is very easy to grow and flowers 
readily, The structure of the flower is quite that of a Gastro- 
chilus, from which genus it really chiefly differs in the large 
broad bracts like those of other Cureumas. 
Perak. Thaiping Hills (Curtis,. Wray No. 3702, 3662; 
3388) Tapa (Wray 193) Dindings on Gunong Tungul. 
Var. rubra, Staminodes and lip and anther daik yellowish 
red. 
Perak. K wala Dipang, at the base of the limestone cliffs. 
