THE SCITAMINE® OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 153 
leaves either solitary, HE. exrserta, HE. Curtisi?, or tufted, H. ser- 
pentina, or borne on an erect stem a foot or more tall. The 
flower spikes scattered along the creeping branches of the 
rhizome, are very short, only an inch or two jong, and bear 
esveral flowers in the axils of dry short bracts. The calyx 
tube is usually long with three lobes, and the corolla tube 
long and graceful with narrow lobes. The lip is fairly large 
entire and rounded, usually white with a central yellow bar 
with red marks along it. The filament of the stamen is broad 
and short, the crest of the anther large and rounded, sometimes 
toothed. The style is slender, increasing above the anther, the 
stigma conical and rather large. The fruit, which is rarely to be 
met with, isin FL. /ongituba a large round white capsule. 
These plants are to be met with in damp woods often in 
great abundance, but seldom seen in flower. 
SPECIES. 
Leaf solitary. Leaves few in a tuft. Leaves on an erect stem. 
1, exserta Bak. 3° Jb. serpentina Bak. 4 FE. latiflora Ridl: 
2. E. Curtis Bak. 5. E. pubescens Ridl. 
6. E. multiflora Ridl. 
7. £E. longituba Ridl. 
E. exserta Baker |.c. 251. Cyphostigma exserta Scortechin. Nuov. 
Giorn. Bot. Ital. vii. 310 t. 13. 
Rhizome slender, leaf usually solitary elliptic acute tapering 
into the petiole four to six feet tail including the petiole, the 
blade three feet long and one across. The scape erect with 
several scattered sheaths half an inch in length, bearing a single 
flower. Calyx tube slender three-lobed one inch long, corolla 
tube slender three inches long with lanceolate lobes # inch in 
length Lip oblong entire yellow with two red lines in the 
centre. Stamen with a short rounded crest, style longer than 
the crest, stisma cup-shaped. 
Perak, Kinta (Scortechini). 
The single gigantic leaf, and the erect scape with a single 
flower, distinguish this from all other species. I have never 
seen it. 
