178 THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
PHRYNIUM. 
Ph. Griffith Bak. lc. 260. Ph. spicatum Griff. Notulee iil 418. 
(non Roxb.) Hitchenia musacea Bak. I.c. 225, Curcuma 
musacea Wall. Cat. 6596. 
Plant forming very large tufts, about five feet tail. Leaves 
erect blade oblong subacute 2 feet long and 6 inches wide above 
light green beneath glaucous except along one edge quite 
glabrous, petioles long and slender three feet tall. Spikes from 
the base 4 to 6 inches lone flattened on a peduncle about the 
same length. Bracts whitish distichous, the edges connate at the 
base with the points recurved cartilaginous, 2 inches lone and 
14 broad. Flowers in pairs, each pair enclosed in a thin white 
oblong bract flattened and thickened on one side. Pedicel short. 
Calyx split nearly to the base lobes narrow acuminate acute 
white thin and transparent, hardly $ an inch long. Corolla tube 
slender 4 inch long, lobes oblong oblanceolate blunt reflexed 
white nearly $ an inch long. Stamen tube little longer than 
corolla tube, the petaloid stamen is so deeply cleft as to appear 
to be two organs each lobe is spathulate with a claw with two 
involute edges and a broad expanded limb. Cucullate stamen 
rather narrow, the apex of the hood rather acute, the lateral 
lobe short and blunt, the edges yellow. Lip oblong obovate 
blunt rather fleshy the crest not transverse as usual but almost 
parallel with the line of the lip short thick and tongue-shaped, a 
long hairy ridge runs along the lower part of the lip in the same 
direction. Style very stout rounded on the k-ack and doubly 
grooved in front. Stigma depressed almost funrel shaped. 
Capsule an inch long, fawn-colored back rounded front keeled, 2 
seeded, seed oblong with the back rounded and front flat, a 
small irregular white aril at the base. 
Dense woods. Singapore, Bukit Timah, Jurong, etc. Johor, 
Gunong Panti, Malacca, Bukit Bruang. Negri Sembilan, Bukit 
Tampin. Pahang, Tahan river. 
A common plant in the South. The flowers have a very 
sweet scent. 
Ph. cylindricum n. sp. 
A large tufted plant in the habit of P. Gr fille Bak. 
