126. THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
three inches long by 2 through. Bracts ovate about ? inch long, 
upper ones smaller lancolate, mucronate, with a sbort. point, 
covered with hair-like processes. Bracteole similar but smaller. 
Flowers solitary in the bracts, large and showy orange yellow. 
Calyx nearly one inch long tubular with three equal mucronate 
points hairy. Corolla tube 6 inches long wide, lobes oblong 
mucronate, pubescent. Lip convolute obovate 38 inches loug 
and 2 inches wide, Stamen filament oblong rather short white 
woolly, tip rounded orange. 
Penang, Pulau Butong (Curtis. 1976) Balik Pulau, fl. July. 
Perak, Larut Hills (King’s Collector). 
This is very near C. g/obosus Bl. but is distinguished by its 
pubescent leaves, narrower more hairy bracts. with less long 
and sharp points, and orange yellow flowers, The flowers are 
about three inches long. The lip is not so wide as that of globo- 
sus and is edged with hairs. 
ZINGIBER. 
This genus is very well marked by the curious prolonged 
point of the anther which occurs in no other genus here. The 
plants are all comparatively small, the stems being one or two 
feet tall, with the exception of one or two kinds which attain a 
height of six feet. The rhizome is usually thick and more or 
less aromatic. The spikes rise directly from the rhizome in all 
our species but abnormal forms occur in which they are borne 
on the ends of the leafy stems. I have seen this in the cultiva- 
ted ginger Z. officinale L. and ina plant allied to if not identical 
with Z. gracile. ‘The spikes are cylindrical or conical, with large 
broad red or yellow bracts, in each of which are one or more 
flowers. These are yellowish white, sometimes spotted with 
pink or mottled with black, one or two only open at a time and 
they last but a day. The calyx is tubular and short, The 
corolla tube projects but little beyond the bract, and the lobes 
are lanceolate or oblong. The lip is three lobed, the side lobes 
are turned up and I believe are really the staminodes which are 
joined to the true lip by their lower edges. ‘The stamen is 
narrow and prolonged at the top into a long curved beak, 
which almost touches the lip over which it is curved. The 
style runs to the end of this beak. The fruit.is a thin walled » 
