158 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
rolled round the flower, and the curious tubular calyx with an 
ovate limb ending ina long point. The rhizome usually very 
woody stands above the ground -often supported on its roots for 
some height. The coloring of the flowers in all that I have 
seen alive is the same, buff yellow, more or less ornamented with 
red spots. The species G. e/egans from Mount Ophir, is peculiar 
in having its inflorescence erect on a slender stem and not lying 
down upon the ground. 
G. decurvatan. sp. Alpinia decurvata Bak. l.c. p. 257. 
A large tufted plant with a stout rhizome. Stems stout 
4 or 5 feet tall strongly ribbed when dry. Leaves lanceolate ~ 
acuminate one foot and a half long and three inches across 
glabrous close-veined, petiole 2 inches long, ligule 4 an inch 
long oblong ovate truncate, sheath ribbed when dry. Scapes 
deflexed base suberect covered with numerous dry long sheaths 
12 to 14 inches long, floriferous portion deflexed or hori- 
zontal, with about 20 secund fiowers,. pedicel 4 an inch long. 
Bracts at base + inch long lanceolate acute. Flowers in pairs 
included in brown boat-shaped mucronate sheaths one inch long. 
Calyx spathaceous as long as the corolla tube. Corolla tube 
not projecting beyond the bract, lobes lanceolate obtuse, half an 
inch long buff color. Lip one inch long obcuneate oblong apex 
rounded darker colored than the petals. Stamen with linear 
filament, anther linear with a small rounded petaloid crest. 
Capsule elongate glossy dark red. 
Perak, Maxwell’s Hill (Ridley 5189) (King’s Collector gee 
G. secundan.sp. Alpinia secunda Bak. |.c. 257. 
Stems stout and tall, leaves narrow lanceolate, over a foot 
long, one inch and a half wide, glabrous, petiole one inch long, 
ligule 8 inch long. capes deflexed six inches long base covered 
with large dry lanceolate acute sheath leaves 2 inches in length, 
pubescent, rachis and pedicels hispid. Flower spike numerous 
crowded secund, peduncles 4 inch long, flowers four ina spike. 
Bracts one inch long ovate lanceolate cuspidate pubescent. 
Calyx spathaceous with a long cusp 4 an inch long. Corolla 
tube shorter than calyx, lobes oblong lanceolate $ an inch long. 
Lip oblong obtuse longer than the corolla lobes. Stamen fila- 
