THE SCITAMINEZA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 1383 
A. Zanthophiebium Bak. |.c, 241. A. stenoglossum Bak. p. 234. 
Stems six feet tall $ inch through. Leaves two feet or 
more in length, two to four inches wide oblong lanceolate with 
a long cusp, glabrous, petiole stout about an inch long ligule 
short truncate + inch long pubescent. Spikes several on a plant, 
loose obconic six inches long or usually less on subterranean 
peduncles, stout 4 to 6 inches lone covered with sheaths. 
Bracts oblong glabrous about 2 inches long and one inch across 
spreading, rather stiff cherry red. Bracteoles spathaceous 
keeled three lobed, lobes unequal dull pink. Flowers solitary. 
Calyx one inch long split to the base on one side 3-lobed, lobes un- 
equal deeply cleft blunt pubescent, brownish pink. Corolla tube 
thick 1} inch long, lobes unequal, upper one broad ovate obtuse 
4 an inch wide, laterals narrowly oblong obtuse + inch across, 
cherry red. Lip convolute entire little longer than the petals, 
obovate apex rounded yellow densely marked with red streaks, 
and spots. Stamen filament linear broad white with a red base 
anther 4 an inch long linear yellow, cells parallel linear, pollen 
white, connective prolonged. into a short rounded entire crest be- 
hind the stigma, and into two curved linear horns from the upper 
angles of the anther, yellowish tipped red. Style fusiform, stigma 
cup-shaped ocreous. Stylodia in the form of a short lobed disc 
almost surrounding the style. Capsule elliptic oblong finely 
pubescent, an inch long. Seeds numerous small black. Hab. 
dense damp jungies, flowering in May and June. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah, Bukit Panjang, etc. Malacca (Main- 
gay), Perak. Larut 500-1000 feet (King 1957), Bujong Malacca 
at 3000 feet elevation. 
I have examined the plant on which A. Stenoglossum Bak. 
was basedand find the stamen exactly the same as that of 
A, Xanthephlebium, and not crestless, as described. 
A, flavum n. sp. 
Stems tall and stout 12 to 15 feet pubescent. Leaves a foot 
long and 2 inches wide oblong lanceolate with a long point 
pubescent beneath, petiole very short, ligule truncate, as long. 
Spikes several borne on branches of the rhizome covered with 
ovate sheathing leaves 4 to one inch long, peduncle 14 inch long. 
Spikes subglobose aboutan inch long and 24 inch across, com- 
