THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. [145 
colour, inner ones lanceolate 24 inches Jong rosy at the tips. 
Bracteoles bifid tubular 2 inches long. Calyx tubular bifid mucro- 
nate, lobes narrow, one subdivided 3 inches long, cherry red. 
Corolla tube as long, lobes linear oblong blunt, upper one the 
largest 14 inch long, cherry red, lower ones one inch long 3 inch 
wide rosy. [ip broad oblong entire blunt one inch longer than 
the corolla cherry red. Stamen anther rather broad and_ thick 
notched, crest none. Stylodes unusually long ¢ inch lanceolate 
entire white. 
Selangor, Ginting Peras (7806). Perak, Thaiping Hills (Dr. 
King 2105). 
One of the finest and perhaps the biggest in the section. 
The rose colored inflorescence with the cherry colored lip are 
very beautiful. 
H, albomarginata n. sp. Amomum sphaerocephalum Bak. |.c. 284. 
Stems about four feet tall slender red glabrous. Leaves 
when young light green barred with red, when full grown dark 
polished green (drying red beneath) glabrous or finely pubes- 
cent beneath no petiole ligule short and broad. Spikes 2 inches 
long subcylindric few flowered. Bracts lanceolate mucronate 
red 2 inches long $ an inch wide pubescent ribbed. Bracteoles 
in pairs thinner red edged with yellow hairs. Calyx tubular 
trifid 14 inch long lobes tipped with yellow hairs. Corolla tube 
about as long lobes tipped with white hairs, lower ones shorter 
than the upper one, lying curved up over the lip. Lip 2 inches 
long sides curved up over the stamen edged white. apex narrow 
linear obtuse deep red. Stamen filament short deep red, an- 
ther oblong entire deep red, keeled on the back half an inch long 
pollen yellow. Style slender, stigma heart-shaped with a 
narrow linear groove. 
Penang Hill abundant. Dec. 1895 (7233), Dinding’s, Lumut. 
Selangor, Petaling. Perak, Gunong Keledang. 
I suppose this plant to be the A. sphaerocephalum Bak., but 
the spike is by no means spherical and the lip is usually at 
least entire, but in a plant flowered in the gardens I find some 
flowers with the apex of the lip three-lobed, while others are 
entire. 
