THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 149 
Var. speciosa. Elettaria speciosa, Bl. Enum. I. p. 51. A. elatior 
Hook. Journ. Bot. I. p 359. 
Margins of lip yellow. 
Native of the Peninsula, Java and Sumatra. Selangor, 
Rawang. Perak, Tambun near Ipoh, Larut (King’s Collector 
3075). 
Elettaria anthodioides Teysm. is probably the same plant but 
appears to be rather smaller. 
H. fulgens n. sp. 
Rhizome stout and woody an inch through. Leafy stems 
about 15 feet tall and one inch through swollen at the base. 
Leaves oblong with a broad unequal base 2 feet long and 6 
inches wide glabrous except the edge which is pubescent, dark 
green above tinted purple beneath when young, petiole an inch 
long, ligule covered with brown wool. Scape four feet tall, 
stout # inch through, covered with dark green sheaths rounded 
at the tip and mucronate below the tip, head about 3 inches tall 
4 inches across. Bracts stiff coriaceous, lower ones broadly 
ovate with a stiff mucro 3 inches wide and long dull red outside, 
‘polished blood red within edges greenish white. Inner bracts 
(floral ones) linear oblong obtuse dull red edged whitish mucro- 
nate. Flowers about as long as bracts. Calyx spathaceous 
with three short acute points and three red ridges corresponding 
1+ inch. Corolla lobes linear obtuse pink longer than calyx 14 
inch. Lip ovate obtuse deep red margin vellow 4 inch long, 
beyond the tube. Stamen shorter, anther red deeply notched 
4 inch long. Stigma large style pubescent. Stylodes broad 
at the base lobulated above. 
Perak, Larut hills. 
This species differs from H. imperialis in its stouter and 
shorter scape broader and shorter head with stiff red ovate 
bracts, nearly entire calyx very shortly split, longer and broader 
corolla lobes, and larger stamen. In many respects it is inter- 
mediate between H. imperialis and A. hemispherica (Amomum 
hemisphericum Hook fil.). 
HT. venusta n. sp. 
Stems ten feet tall 14 inch on clubbed at the base, 
