154 THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
fi. Curtis Bak. l.c. 252. 
Rhizome far creeping, with woolly roots. Leaf solitary, 
blade a foot long and three inches wide lanceolate acuminate 
glabrous tapering below into the petiole, which is eight inches 
long and included in along ribbed sheath. Flowering stems short 
three inches long. Bracts oblong lanceolate about half an inch 
long. Spikes scattered one or two flowered. Calyx spathaceous 
ampliate unequally three-lobed an inch long. Corolla tube 2 
inches long, slender enlarged upwards, lobes oblong blunt white 
5 an inch long and 4+ wide. Lip obovate oblong median bar 
thickened # inch long. Stamen filament short rather broad, 
anther thick crest oval entire large. Style shorter than the crest, 
stigma cup-shaped large. 
Penang Hil, Bukit Laksamana (Curtis 1705). 
f. serpentina Bak. l.c. 252. 
Rhizome asin £. Curtis. Leaves three in a tuft unequal 
lanceolate acuminate narrowed into the petiole, glabrous, blade 
six to 8 inches long, two inches wide, petiole 4 inches long, 
glabrous. Flowering stems short two inches lone covered with 
ratker short oblong dry sheaths. Calyx tube one inch long, 
lobes linear + inch long. Corolla tube as long as the calyx 
rather thick, lobes oblong $ an inch long, white. Lip oblong 
obovate cuneate apex rounded longer than the petals ? inch long. 
Stamen filament broad and short, crest of anther very large oblong 
rounded, Style rather thick shorter than the crest, stigma large 
obconic with a very large slit. 
Penang, 1000 to 1500 feet alt. May (King’s Collector) 
Fils. white red brown and yellow in centre. 
. latiflora 0. sp. 
Rhizome far creeping } inch through almost covered with 
sheaths faintly aromatic, roots stout woolly. Leafy stems six 
inches to a foot tall with about five leaves blade lanceolate 
ovate lanceolate cuspidate dark green giabrous above pubescent 
beneath 10 to 13 inches long 2 to 4 inches wide, petiole rather 
slender 2 to 4 inches long base of the stem covered with long 
sheaths. Floral stems often numerous three or four inches to 
about six or even longer, spikes rather distant 2 flowered. 
