THE SCITAMINEZ® OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 125 
C. globosus Bl. Enum. Pl. Jav. 62. 
Stems tall rather slender woody 6 to 8 feet high, bases 
covered with thin reddish brown sheaths. Leaves on one side of 
the stem only, sheaths allout an inch long terete, ligule annu- 
lar apex fimbriate with hairs, petiole short + inch long thick, 
blade broadly oblanceolate acuminate thin, 7 inches long by 24 
inches across dark green above lighter beneath, nerves above 
conspicuous with transverse reticulations glabrous above, midrib 
pubescent or not. Spike from the rhizome on a short thick 
woody horizontal or ascending peduncle 3 inches long and _ half 
an inch thick, compact many flowered three inches long and 
_ half an inch thick, prickly from the sharp points of the bracts. 
Bracts stiff cartilagineous broadly ovate with a sharp stiff mucro 
half an inch long striate red covered with short blunt processes, 
an inch long including the point. Flowers solitary in the bract, 
large and showy, but fugacious, cherry red. Bracteole like the 
bract but inequilateral and smaller. Calyx tubular cartilaginous 
with three equal pungent mucronate lobes an inch in length 
pubescent red. Corolla tube as long as the calyx lobes thin 
pubescent lanceolate acute mucronate an inch long 4 ‘an inch 
wide. Lip very large and thin obovate involute nearly two 
inches long fringed with hairs. Stamen filament broad thin 3 
inch across, connective oblong much wider than the anther, crest 
ovate obtuse recurved red, back of stamen covered with white 
wool, anther $ an inch long oblong white. Style slender thick- 
ened upwards. Stigma transversely oblong, slit transverse. 
Rocks and banks in wet woods. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah. Johore, Gunong Panti. Selangor, 
Petaling, Gua Batu. Perak, Maxwell’s Hill. Pahang, Tahan river. 
Sungei Ujong, Bukit Tampin; Perhentian Tinggi. A native 
also of Java. 
C. King Baker. Flor. Brit. Ind. l.c. 250. 
Stem about six feet tall slender. Leaves oblanceolate oblong 
cuspidate, 8 inches long by 3 wide glabrous above, softly pubes- 
cent beneath, sheaths 2 inches long hispid ribbed, ligule hardly 
distinct with no long hairs on the edge. Spike from the rhizome 
on a long, stout peduncle over 2 inches long, conical cylindric, 
