150 THE SCITAMINEZAX OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
above terete and smooth. Leaves oblong green over 2 feet 
lone and 6 inches wide narrowed towards the base, ligule 
short rounded edge pubescent. Scapes 2 feet tall, ped- 
peduncle $ an inch through partly covered with mucronate 
pink sheaths the rest arachnoid. Head broad cup-shaped, base 
much broader than the peduncle, 3 inches long by 5 wide, outer 
bracts very broad oblong the tips recurved, appressed 1o the 
flowers 3 inches long 24+ wide rosy, somewhat fleshy, receptacle 
conic. Flower bracts linear oblong shorter than the flowers 2 
inches long, + inch wide. Bracteole shorter spathaceous 14 inch 
long split along the back whitish. Calyx I} inch long trifid split 
on one side deep red. Corolla lobes linear spathulate 1+ inch 
long obtuse red pink. Lip half an inch long thin oblong apex 
rounded blunt white the centre spotted pink. | Stamen filament 
with white hairs, anther oblong inch lone white cells covered 
with yellow hairs, emarginate. Style broad linear flattened 
above terete below. Stigma oblong flattened red. Fruit large 
conical beaked, glabrous red 38 inches long 14 through at the 
base, ovules very numerous. 
- Selangor, Woods at Ginting Bidai. 
One of the noblest species with the inflorescence in the 
form of a large broad-bottomed cup rose coloured and wax-like. 
The points of the erect outer bracts are turned downwards. The 
flowers are also rosy, and the fruit in a laree round head waxy 
red with lone projecting beaks. 
H. Maingayi mihi. Amomum Maingayi Baker l.c. 235. 
Rhizome long creeping throwing up leafy stems at some 
distance apart, shoots red roots strong and wiry. Stems about 
nine feet tall 2 inch throagh olivaceous green. Leaves oblong 
acute 18 to 24 inches long, 5 inches wide glabrous above, pubes- 
cent beneath, keel large rounded, petiole about 4 inch long apex 
rounded sheaths striate glabrous. Peduncle graceful but stiff, a 
foot tall, with pink sheaths with oval apices, head sub-globose 
1} inch long, outer. Bracts broad, with rounded edges, retuse 
mucronate appressed, pink entirely covered with silvery pubes- 
cence except the glabrous crimson margins. Inner bracts lan- 
ceolate over one inch long: Bracteole spathaceous tubular one 
_inch long pubescent split on one side with three lanceolate muc- 
