136 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
lanceolate cuspidate gradually narrowed to the base over 2 feet 
long and 4 inches wide glabrous; ligule very short. Spikes 
several cylindric or fusiform 8 to 4 inches lone on peduncles 6 
inches long’ covered with green sheaths, Bracts papery striate 
and pale brown oblong subacute 14 inch long 3 an inch wide 
ely pubescent. Bracteoles tubular fawn-cclor, two lobed, 
silky San inch long. Calyx fawn-colored three-lobed,. lobes 
rounded silky. Corolla tube barely longer, lobes linear oblong, 
white blunt $ inch long. Lip spoon-shaped eutire, little longer 
than the petals white apex yellow, with a short carmine line at 
the base on each side. central bar thickened. Staminodes 
oblong truncate, buff. Stamen filament broad, broader than the 
anther, anther short thick and quadrate upper angles produced 
oblong obtuse, crest entire oblong blunt recurved. Style thick- | 
ened upwards above the anther. Stigma very large oblong, 
much bigger than the crest, ovary silky. 
Selangor, Caves Kwala Lumpur (8173) Pulau Tioman. 
A dull colored plant with pale fawn colored bracts and 
inconspicuous white flowers. It flowers in December. 
A. cylindraceum 0. sp. 
Stems six feet tall, Leaves oblong lanceolate acute narrow- 
ed at base, grey-green, 18 incbes long by 2 wide glabrous closely 
veined, with a stout keel, petiole none, ligule very large 4 inch 
long bifid lobes acute. Spikes cylindrical stout 6 inches long, 
on strong peduncles of eqral length, covered with rufoustomen- 
tum and with large oblong sheaths an inch long. Bracts ovate 
obloug stiff brown. Bracteole $ inch long truncate bifid, 
tubular. Calyx tubular # inch long truncate pubescent. 
Corolla tube an inch long slender pubescent, lobes oblong ob- 
tuse the upper one hooded, orange. Lip three-lobed, lobes 
rounded darker orange. Staminodes lanceolate acuminate. 
Anther crest oblong with two points at the side. Fruit glo- 
bose rough, with numerous low ribs about 4 inch long brown. 
Dindings, Woods at Telok Sera. 
Flowers in January, fruit in March. This is allied to A. 
testaceum in its cylindrical spike and smali flowers. 
A. uliginosum Koen. Retz. Obs. iii. 56. Baker. |. ¢. 247. 
Rhizome with very long cylindrical branches about + inch 
