146 THE SCiTAMINEZX OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
H. velutina n. sp. 
Stems tall and stout. Leaves oblong lanceolate 15 inches 
long 4 inches wide glabrous above, velvety with long hairs 
beneath, bise tapering into a petiole half an inch long, ligule as 
long, oblong obtuse velvety. Spike at first ¢lobose 12 ‘inch long 
elongating with growth, peduncle 2 inches lone. Bracts oblone 
obtuse about an inch long velvety dark red. _Bracteole oblong 
truncate pubescent dull red 14 inch long. Calyx tubular pubes- 
cent trifid shorter. Corolla tube shorter than calyx, lobes short 
oblong rounded at the tip upper one a little longer. Lip oblong 
rounded bilobed, edges not meeting over the anther cherry red, 
the edges at the base whitish. Anther oblong retuse. Stigma 
deep red. 
Borneo, Bongaya River. 
HH, megalochilus. Achasma meyalochelos Griff. Notul. IL}. 426, 
Pl. CCOCLV. Amomum megalochilus Bak. Flor. Brit. Ind. p. 236, 
A. rubroluteum Baker, |.c. 
Stems stout and tall 12 to 15 feet, and 14 inch through 
clubbed at the base. Leaves broadly oblong cuspidate base 
oblique rounded glabrous dark green, 2 to 3 feet long, 35 to 45 
inches wide, petiole half to one inch long, ligule oblong rounded 
5 inch long. Spikes 2 to 3 inches long on long subterranean 
branches of the rhizome deeply sunk in the earth peduncles 14 
to 1 inch long covered with ovate bracts. Bracts ovate acute 
inucronate strongly ribbed when dry, margins ciliate bright red, 
about an inch long.  Bracteoles narrow linear lanceolate 
pubescent. Calyx 3 inches lone trifid lobes acuminate. Corolla 
tube 2 inches long rather slender, pubescent within, lobes 
linear acute an inch long, shorter than tube of the lip red, Lip 
2 inches longer than the corolla the sides rolled up at the base, 
spathulate, apex dilated entire or retuse, criinson edges yellow. 
Stamen filament short broad, anther short oblong ‘about 4 an 
inch long emarginate with no real crest deep red. Style slender 
longer than anther, stigma triangular. Stylodes oblong acute, 
Ovary pubescent. 
Common in wet woods, often forming dense thickets. 
Singapore (rare) Bukit Mandai. Pahang, Tahan Woods ; 
Pekan. Malacca, Bukit Sadanen. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tampin. 
