166 THE SCiITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
green, 18 inches long, and 2 inches across, petiole rather slender 
one inch long, ligule ovoid blunt + inch long, brownish. Panicle 
short or long, 3 to many flowered, with several short branches 
rachis finely pubescent, sometimes nearly glabrous. A long 
linear green leaf-like bract encloses the whole inflorescence in 
bud, Bracteoles very small about + inch lone oblong white, 
very soon falling, the one in the uppermost flower often large 
enclosing the bud. Flowers in threes, pedicel ¢ inch long, as 
long as the pubescent ovary. Calyx narrowed at the base 
suddenly dilate above split about 3 way down, three tooth- 
ed 4 inch jong white. Corolla tube shorter lobes oblong about an 
inch long, white upper one oblong ovate lip indistinctly three- 
lobed, sides turned up, apex truncate crisped, orange with 
numerous red dots and veins, a raised dark red glabrous 
swelling at the base on each side. Stamen filament rather short 
channelled, anther buff, # inch long, thick, apices of cells a little 
diverging. Stigma cup-shaped. Capsule globose orange-red, 
very minutely downy, splitting readily in three. Seeds nume- 
rous black or dark gray with a sweet white aril, aromatic. 
Pulau Aor, and Pulau Dayong (Islands off the East Coast 
of Johore). (Feilding.) 
This plant I have not met with in any part of the peninsula 
but it has long been cultivated in the Singapore Gardens where 
it grows very readily. ‘There are two forms, one of which is 
short, with very narrow leaves, and panicles of two or three 
flowers, and another much stouter with broad leaves, a larger 
panicle and almost glabrous fruit. The former is the plant figur- 
ed by Roscoe, the latter is the form collected by Mr Feilding and 
is the variety figurad by Roxburgh. There is no trace of any 
staminodes. I found a monstrous flower on one plant with two 
complete polliniferous stamens, and between them a short linear 
subulate process, in which apparently the normally developed 
stamen was rudimentary and the two lateral ones developed. 
This may be compared with Roscoe’s A. difissa which is probably 
a specimen of this plant with all the flowers like this. 
A.assimilis n.sp. A. mutica Hook. fil. Bot. Mag. t. 6908 (not 
Roxburgh). 
About 6 feet tall. Leaves lanceolate acuminate narrow 14 
