144 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
6 inches long 14 wide, the point, one inch, base broad, no petiole 
glabrous, ligule very small sheaths somewhat hispid. Spike 
small few-flowered on a peduncle half an inch long. Bracts ovate 
mucronate ribbed half an inch long glabrous red. Bracteole 
cylindric ribbed pubescent. Calyx short. Corolla tube short 
about 4 an inch lobes linear red. Lip narrow entire fleshy. 
Stamen filament shortanther 2 inch long hardly retuse at the 
apex. Style filiform stigma cup-shaped pubescent. Stylodes 
+ inch rather thick. 
Pahang. Kwala Tembelin. 
The smallest species I have seen, easily distinguished by the 
few-flowered spike, the flowers somewha resembling those of 
H. Leonurus but much smaller. 
Hi. pauciflora. 0. sp. : 
Stems rather slender terete distant 1z feet long. Leaves 
oblong cuspidate glabrous 15 foot long 4 inches wide, petiole 
i an inch long, ligule lanceolate 1 imch. Spikes deeply sunk 
in the ground 2 to 4 flowered, | Bracts narrow lanceolate acute 
fleshy, white, 2 inches long. Bracteole 2 inches long tubular 
bilobed, lobes acute white. Calyx narrow at the base dilate 
upwards trilobed, lobes acute, 38 inches long red. Corolla 
tube as long, upper lobe lanceolate subacute cherry red, lower 
ones shorter oblong obtuse deep red. Lip narrowly lanceolate 
obtuse apex barely enlarged, lateral lobes rounded, flame color, 
with the central bar thickened yellow. Stamen filament short, 
anther bent oblong emarginate deep red, pollen cells white. 
Style filiform, stigma cordate recurved white. Staminodes 
oblong truncate grooved, buff. 
Selangor. Abundant at the Caves, Gua Batu. 1895. 
This plant is remarkable for the inflorescence being reduced 
to but 2 or 3 flowers, with thin cartilaginous white bracts sunk 
in the ground so that only the upper part of the flowers appear. - 
H. triorgyale n. sp. Amomum triorgyale Bak. |. c. 237. 
Stems 18 feet tall stout pubescent. Leaves oblong acute 24 
feet long 7 inches across glabrous above softly pubescent be- 
neath, petiole $ inch, ligule large. Spike short and broad ovate 4 
inches long and 2 inches through. Bracts broad ovate 2 inches 
long and wide longitudinally ribbed pubescent deep rose 
