170 THE SCITAMINEZA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
shaped. Capsule round flattened at both ends orange stiffly 
hairy. Seeds numerous. Cultivated in the Botanic gardens 
1888-1898 fl. November. 
Pahang, Kwala Tembeling. Selangor, Ginting Bidai. 
This superb plant has long been cultivated in the Botanic 
Gardens, but whence it was obtained is quite uncertain. It is 
the largest species known to me, and very distinct in its large 
white triple bracts tipped with pink, and its deep blood-red lip 
very broad and ending in two oblong undulated lobes. The 
leaves are remarkably velvety beneath. 
A. Rajflesiana Wall. Cat. 6575. Baker l.c. 255. 
Stems about 4 feet tall slender, leaves lanceolate cuspidate 
pubescent, 12 inches long by three wide, petiole 4 an inch long, 
ligule oblong sheaths pubescent. Panicle short and compact, 2 
to 4inches long. Bracts oblong short. Calyx short, dilated up- 
wards, mouth oblique red. Corolla tube nearly twice as long, 
lobes broadly lanceolate orange tipped red 14 inch long. Lip 
longer, broadly ovate sides upcurved, orange with darker veins. 
Staminodes two short deep maroon toothed processes. Stigma 
filament linear fleshy, anther oblong retuse. Style longer 
than stamen, stigma rounded. Capsule globose green 2 inch 
long pubescent. 
Singapore, Sungei Buluh; Changi; Tuas. Johore, Tanjong 
Bunga: Gunong Panti; Ulu Batu Pahat. Malacca, Sungei 
Hudane. Selangor, Bukit Hitam; Bukit Kutu. Perak, Dind- 
ings, Telok Sera; Maxwell’s hill, Gunong Keledang. 
This pretty plant easily distinguished by its short panicle 
of entirely orange colored flowers, occurs all over the peninsula 
from Singapore to Perak, inhabiting woods up to an attitude 
of 4000 feet. It is called Pua Munkang, and Tepus Kijoi. 
This plant commonly known as Alpinia vittata of Gardens, 
is quite different from this, which I believe is not in cultivation 
at all, 
A. comosa N. Sp. 
Stems slender 6 to 10 feet tall, slender terete dark green. 
Leaves narrow lanceolate acuminate with long points edges 
serrate with short stiff hairs at the apex, about a foot long and 
