THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 165 
stiff 8 inches long and one wide or less, petiole nearly + inch 
long, ligule as long. Panicle absent 4 inches long, with a few 
short branches at the base, flowers in threes on short peduncles, 
small rosy. Calyx campanulate 4 inch long lobes very obscure. 
Corolla tube longer dilated upwards, lobes short ovate oblong 
rounded. Lip 4 lobed with a short narrow claw two erect round- 
ed oblong lobes and the median one divided into two narrow 
linear oblong obtuse lobes. Stamen considerably longer + inch 
long, anther linear oblong with a small rounded lanceolate crest. 
Capsule globular black. Seeds 3 about inch through black, outer 
face rounded, inner one angled. 
Borneo, Kudat (1897) Brunei Bay (Bishop Hose). 
Allied to A. melanocarpa but differmg in the very small 
flowers only $ an inch long, the short calyx rounded broad 
corolla lobes four-lobed lip and crested stamen. 
A, secundiflora n.sp. 
Leaves lanceolate acute one foot and a half long, 2 inches 
across glabrous, grey above when dry and glaucous beneath, 
petiole winged 4 an inch long, sheath transversely wrinkled, 
ligule + inch long obtuse. Panicle nearly a foot long, with a 
peduncle over six inches long, bearing several lanceolate sheath- 
ing bracts wrinkled transversely, the largest six inches long, 
branches pubescent short 4 an inch long, flowers numerous secund. 
Bracts smal] ovate 4 inch long. Calyx tubular one inch long, 
lobes 3 sub-equal ovate, apices mucronate pubescent. Corolla 
tube 1$ inch long narrow funnel-shaped, lobes oblong hooded, 
Lip shorter than the corolla lobes oblong obtuse rounded with 
three strong veins. Staminodes flat wing-shaped ending in a 
linear subulate point inch long. Stamen filament broad, anther 
oblong not crested. Styleslender, stigma cup-shaped. 
Selangor. Bukit Hitam (H. J. Kelsall). 
A dried specimen of this plant was brought by Lieut. Kel- 
sall from Bukit Hitam some years ago, and it has never been 
collected since, either there or elsewhere. The tall panicle with 
narrow flowers all turned to one side of the rachis is peculiar. 
A. mutica Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 67. Roscoe Scit. Pl. t. 69. 
From 3 to 6 feet tall usually rather slender. Leaves narrow 
lanceolate very acuminate tapering at both ends glabrous light 
