172 THE SCITAMINE® OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
cent at the base and hooded at the apex, with a scarious margin. 
Lip ovate broad trumpet-shaped margins denticulate otherwise 
entire (rarely obscurely lobed) 2 inches long, 1} broad orange 
with crimson spots and veins at the base, edge white. Stami- 
nodes irregular short with two or three points crimson. Stamen 
filament # inch long pubescent, anther very thick, $ an inch long 
pubescent, apices of cells separate, no crest, cells linear narrow. 
Style abruptly recurved at the apex, ovary silky. Capsule glo- 
bose green. Shady woods and banks. 
Johore, Gunong Panti. “Malacca very common. Muar 
(Feilding). Selangor very common especially near Kwala Lum- 
pur. Perak, Larut, Ipoh, (King 2296) Waterloo. Also at Sungei 
Kalantan, Siak in Sumatra. 
Though Baker classes this as near A. nutans, Roxb, it is very 
different in many points. The curious cup-like bracts round 
the flowers, the hooded petals, the thick nearly cordate anther, 
and short compact panicle make it quite peculiar. The flowers 
are fertilized by a brown humble bee, and seldom fail to pro- 
.duce fruit, which is always green, never becoming orange as in 
other species. It is called Poko Gingin, and Kantan hutan by the 
Malays. A variety occurs in the Kinta valley at Ipoh and 
Bujong Malacca in which the flowers are colored as in A. cap- 
itellata with the calyx, tips of corolla and centre of lip red. 
A. capitellata Jack Hook. Journ. Bot. i, p. 360. 
Stems over six feet tall or more one inch through purplish 
brown pubescent. Leaves oblong cuspidate edyes pubescent 2 feet 
long, 4 inches wide, petiole 3 inches long or less pubescent ligule 
large and hairy. Inflorescence a nodding obconic head 4 inches 
across, with very large ovate cuspidate thin bracts the lower 
ones three inches long and wide. Bracteoles short rounded 
cup-shaped, much shorter than the bracts. Flowers almost 
sessile hardly protruding. Calyx 4 an inch long, much 
dilated upwards with the base wider than the pubescent 
yellow, ovary (4 inch long) obscurely three-lobed, the lobes 
rounded red. Corolla tube a little longer than the calyx 
lobes stiff, upper one an inch long and ? inch wide hooded with 
a stout blunt mucro which with the centre is red, the rest white 
lateral lobes obovate blunt the apex in the centre raised to a 
