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boss red. Lip obovate with a bifid apex, sides convolute, edges 
crisped 14inch long by 2 wide, edge white, centre orange, thick- 
Jy dotted with dark red, dots in lines. Staminodes adnate to 
the edges of the lip and to the base of the filament, short sub- 
acute deep brown pink shining. Stamen 1 inch long filament $ 
inch wide glabrous yellowish, anther deeply emarginate pubes- 
cent yellow with pink dots on the back. Style as long as 
stamen, apex decurved, stigma sub-triangular with a linear slit. 
Capsule globose minutely pubescent green. 
Woods, Province Wellesiey, at Ara Kudah; Dindings, Gu- 
none Tungul. A fine piant closely allied to A. znvo/ucrata but 
quite unique in its large obconic capitula of flowers, with very 
large bracts at the base. 
Jack’s description as far as it goes fits this plant very well, 
but it is not very complete. He obtained his plant at Bencoolen 
in Sumatra. 
§ Cenolophon. 
A. vitellina n. sp. Cenolophon vitellinum Horan. Prodr. 36. 
Amomum vite/linum Lindl, Journ. Hort. Soc. ii. 245. Bot. 
Reg. 1847, t. 52. 
Rhizome stout branched. Stems numerous 3 to 384 feet 
tall 4 an inch through dull green flattened and ribbed. Leaves 
lanceolate acuminate 10 inches long 3 inches across, dark 
green, petiole less than $ an inch long ligule rounded usu- 
ally split $ an inch long edged with rufous fur, sheath deeply 
split. Panicle terminal with few branches much shorter than 
the leaves compact, about 4 inches long, rachis pubescent. 
Bracts narrow linear caducous 38 inches long green. Flowers 
sessile or nearly so. Calyx tubular zreen one inch long pubes- 
cent trifid split. Corolla tube as long as the calyx, yellow, 
lobes linear blunt erect, yellow one inch long, posticous one 
hooded. Lip longer than corolla flat oblong cuneate bifid at apex 
edges crispid, orange veined with darker color, aud sprinkled 
with red dots, stamen filament shorter than lip flat pale orange. 
Crest very large three-lobed toothed. Staminodes two short 
red horn-like processes. 
Penang Hill. Selangor, Dusun Tua. 
This species was first described from a plant sent to Chiswick 
