140 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. | 
the description, Elettaria foetens Bl. H. minuta, EH. coccinea and FE. 
minor Bl. E. pininga, BH. rubra, H. paludosa, HE. tomentosa, Miq. 
all of Java, but the descriptions published of these are inadequate. 
To the section 2 belong 7. imperialis, H. Maingayt, H. venusta, 
H. hemisphoerica of the Peninsula, JZ. tnvolucrata (Amomum 
involucratun Benth.) of Ceylon, H. Fenzlt (A. Fenzlit Kurz.) 
of the Nicobars. ff. pallida (Elettaria pallida B! .) &. macroce- 
phala, (i. macrocephala Miq.) 
H. scyphus Retz. Obsery. vi. 18. Amomum scyphiferum Koenig. 
Retz. Observ, tii. 68. Bak. lc. 237, Stenochasma urceolare 
Griff. Notul. iil. 431. 
Rhizome stout and woody, stems ten feet tall 3 an 
an inch through. Leaves oblone base oblique, 2 feet long and 
six inches wide dark green and glabrous above, paler beneath 
and hairy along the midrib or all over, petiole + inch long, ligule 
oblong obtuse hairy, nearly half an inch long. Spike cylindric 
onashort stout peduncle, covered with oblong ovate bracts red, 
outer ones empty 2 inches long 14 broad longitudinally and 
transversely ribbed, thick and stiff in texture. Bracteoles lorate 
lanceolate 2 inches long 4 inch wide, tips dark red with a scari- 
ous margin, minutely mucronate. Flowers solitary in the bracts 
opening one or two at a time, 35 inch long. Calyx  spatha- 
ceous an inch long three-lobed flattened red, lobes rounded 
red tipped with white. Corolla tube much longer slender red, 
the lobes lanceolate oblong, upper one hooded # inch long + wide, 
lower ones shorter adnate to the lip below for the greater part 
of their length, all deep shining red. Lip a little longer than the 
upper petal, side lobes rounded embracing the stamen, apex 
fleshy tongue-shaped dark red pubescent especially in the centre. - 
Stamen filament short broad, anther cells linear grey, upper 
part only polliniferous lower part pubescent crest ovate rounded. 
Staminodes absent. Style slender white, Stigma red cup-shaped, 
terminal pubescent. Stylodes forming a tube round the base of 
the style with their tips free, half an inch lone, ovary glab- 
rous 3-celled, ovules numerous, Capsule oblong obscurely tri- 
angular ? inch long, + inch through yellowish white, thinly carti- 
laginous. Seeds numerous black smosth truncate angled ;!-inch 
long enclosed in an acid pulp. 
