152 THE SCITAMINEE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
tomentose, ligule very short pubescent. Spike lateral 3 inckes 
long, rachis tomentose. Flowers numerous 4 an inch long, 
crowded, buds red, shortly stalked. Bracts brownish } inch 
long ovate hairy outside. Calyx cartilaginous tubular 3-lobed 
red. Corolla tube barely as long, thick, lobes oblong, upper one 
hooded, lower ones shorter red. Lip oblong bilobed apex orange 
base reddish orange. Anther large oblong retuse pubescent 
red, 
British North Borneo, Bongaya River 1897; Sandakan 
(Creagh). 
Pl. lateralis nsp. Amomum laterale Rid. Traus. Linn. Soc. ILI. p 
381. 
A stout plant usually about six feet tall, with a thick under- 
ground rhizome. Leaves lanceolate acuminate pubescent 23 feet 
long, 4 inches wide, dark green, petiole one inch long, ligule 
obtuse bilobed + inch long. Spike about six inches long protruded 
a foot or more above the ground from the side of the stem, some - 
times branched, thick cylindrical, on a peduncle covered with 
ovate sheaths. bracts oblong with laciniate edges. Calyx conic 
tubular as long as the corolla white. Corolla tube thick + inch 
long, lobes ovate acute dark red fleshy. Lip short obtuse flat 
emarginate, fleshy orange yellow, papillose. Stamen filament 
short thick pubescent, anther oblong pubescent white. Stami- 
nodes two short acute teeth. Stylodes flesh colour oblong trun- 
cate, with a short blunt tooth. Capsule $ an inch long, ovoid 
conic thin-walled, pale brown. Seeds 3 - 4 in each cell. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah, Bukit Mandai, Reservoir Woods. 
Negri Sembilan, Perhentian Tinggi. | 
Another species I found in fruit on Gunong Panti in Johore 
was as large as the last species but had spikes six inches long 
and oblong fruit $ an inch in lenzth containing about 12 black 
angled seed very aromatic. 
ELETTARIOPSIS. 
This genus is most closely allied to Elettaria, and like it is 
almost peculiar in having the flower spikes borne on long creep- 
ing branches generally imbedded in mud, and rooting at inter- 
vals. The rhizome is slender and only slightly aromatic. The 
