184 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
pact. Bracts ovate mucronate brown. Bracteole spathaceous 
pubescent bilobed, $ inch long, lobes mucronate. Calyx pubes- 
cent 14 inch long, tubular split down the back bilobed, lobes 
mucronate. Corolla tube as long, lobes ochreous upper one 
obovate hooded 14 inch long, laterals narrower oblong lanceolate 
Lip large, one inch across convolute obovate, margins recurved 
ribbed, yellow spotted with red in the centre. Stamen filament 
straight rather broad pale orange, anther narrow linear yellow. 
Crest reniform apices rounded with a short central projection, + 
inch wide veined orange. Style shorter than the crest. Stigma 
cup-shaped. 
Penang, Waterfall Gardens (Curtis 2275), Penara Bukit 
(7226). Sumatra, Lampongs, (H. O. Forbes). . 
Allied to A. Xanthophlebium Bak. but with smaller orange 
flowers brown ovate bracts and a very different crest, 
A. lappaceum 0. sp. 
Rhizome stout. Stems tall and stout about 6 feet or even 
more. Leaves oblong lanceolate acuminate cuspidate some- 
what narrowed at the base glabrous, not petioled, 18 inches 
long by four wide. Spikes numerous gradvally elongating to 
16 inches in length, cylindrical, rachis stout covered with brown 
tomentum. Flowers numerous shortly pedicelled (4 inch). Bracts 
oblong bifid at apex, points rounded, red, 14 inch long, 1 inch 
wide. Bracteole tubular $inch long trifid, apices pink. Calyx 
tubular one inch long trifid apices acute equal, red. Corolla 
tube as lone as the calyx, lobes linear upper one broader, 
oblong about half an inch long ochre yellow. Lip obovate 
rounded shortly bilobed. Staminodas none. Stamen rather 
short, anther $ an inch long, crest none. Ovary pubescent. 
Fruit otlong # inch long covered with conic subulate spines, 
pedicels 4 an inch long stout. 
Dense woods, Selangor, Ginting Peras (7802). Perak 
(Scortechini 222) Wray ; Maxwell’s Hill, Ridley. 
The most peculiar thing about this plant is the way in 
which the flower spikes gradually lengthen as the flowers open 
till they attain a length of 18 inches, and the pedicels which in 
the flower are about + inch long become twice that length. 
The fruit is eaten by Sakais. 
