128 THE SCITAMINEZA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
ered with sheathing leaves upper ones larger and uppermost 
with an ovate blade 2 inches long and one across. Spike short 
and broad (a capitulum) about three inches long and through. 
Bracts lanceolate apices deflexed. Flowers shortly protruding. 
Corolla tube slender, terete, lobes narrow lanceolate acute. 
Lip narrow shorter than the lobes, lanceolate acute, lateral lobes 
indistinct, hardly elevated. Anther longer than the lip, cells 
narrowly oblong, beak about as long as the cells narrow. Perak, 
open old jungle, rich rocky soil, 2000 to 2500 feet, August 1884. 
Flower-stem a rich light brown and pink. Flower pale white 
reddish and brown inside. (Kunstler, No. 2219). } 
I have never seen this plant. and take the description from 
a drawing and notes by Kunstler. It is a very striking and 
distinct plant in its round dense head of flowers and broad 
bract-like sheathing leaves just beneath it. ‘The narrow lip 
distinctly shorter than the petals, and showing no large lateral 
lobes as in other species is also quite peculiar. 
Z. spectabile Griff. Notulee, ii, 413. 
A very large noble species, with stout stems 7 feet tall, 3 
an inch through, glabrous slightly flattened. Leaves about 25, 
rather thin textured lanceolate mucronate subdistichous a foot 
long, 4 inches across dull green above, paler beneath, ligule 
thin rounded bilobed + inch long. Secapes stout a foot long 
or more, covered with green sheaths, and bearing a showy spike 
afoot long.  Bracts stiff ovate cartilaginous edges recurve, 
blunt, an inch long at first yeilow then becoming scarlet. 
Flowers solitary in the bracts. Calyx spathaceous subob- 
tuse shortly split 14 inch long striate white. Corolla 
tube 14 inch long, lobes lanceolate acute, upper one 14 
inch long, 4 inch across, lower ones narrower connate 
for half their length and adnate to the lip. <All yellow- 
ish white. Lip 5 lobed broad a little shorter than the petals, 
lateral lobes: broad rounded, median ovate bifid shortly at the 
apex, base and middle cf lip thickened grooved, lemon yellow 
mottled with deep purple nearly black at the tip. Anther broad 
fleshy ocre yellow, appendage long curved acute purple. Stigma 
elliptic fringed all round with transparent processes. Capsule 
one inch long fleshy. Seed black with a white aril. 
