THE SCITAMINEAX OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 151 
ronate points. Flowers 2 inches long rose-colored. Calyx tubular 
with three lanceolate points longer than the corolla. Corolla* 
lobes blunt oblong. Lip 3-lobed, laterals erect oblong, me- 
dian lobe longer oblong dark rose colour. Stamen filament 
linear broad, anther bentatan obtuse angle more than + inch 
long deeply excavate dark crimson, pollen white. Style very 
slender, stigma reniform slit linear, not central. dark madder 
colour. Fruit obconic nearly glabrous half an inch long. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah, Sungei Buluh. Pahang, Kota 
Glanggi. Selanger, Dusun Tua. Perak (Wray No. 8).. 
From the very short inadequate description, icolaia pallida 
Horan. from Java may be the same species. This plant is 
really intermediate between the two sections. 
PLAGIOSTACHYS n. gen. 
Stems usually very talland stout with lanceolate leaves, 
pubescent. Flower spike thick borne on a peduncle covered 
with sheathing leaves and projecting from the side of the 
leafy stalk. bracts oblong ovate laciniate. .Flowers nu- 
merous small and fleshy. Calyx spathaceous short. Corolla 
tube short and thick, lobes oblong or ovate fleshy. Lip flat 
oblong. Stamen with a short thick filament an oblong 
anther, emarginate but with no crest. Stamivodes two short 
subulate processes. Style rather short. Capsule ovoid conic 
or oblong, three-celled seed 3 or 4 in each cell, angled. 
Malay peninsula and Borneo. 
The type species of this curious genus I referred originally 
to Amomum, being unwilling to make a new genus of it, as loug 
as the genus Amomum was understood as containing a beteroge- 
neous mixture, but ] am by no means certain now that the genus 
has not really more affinity with A/pinza. ‘The peculiar position 
of the inflorescence is normally unique in the order. The 
fleshy simple flowers with a crestless anther are certainly more 
like those of some A/pinia than anything else, and Mr. Baker has 
referred P. strobi‘ifera to that genus. 
P. strobiiiferan. sp. Alpinia strobilifera Bak. Kew Bulletin 1898. 
235. 
Stems about 2 feet tall fairly stout pubescent. Leaves 
lanceolate pubescent six inches long and three wide, sheath 
