THE SCITAMINE® OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 179 
Leaves about six feet tall, blade oblong ovate base broad 
two feet long and 8 inches wide glabrous green above whitish 
beneath, petioles four feet long. Scapes rather slender about 8 
inches long, spikes narrow fusiform six inches long. Bracts 
pale green ovate oblong truncate glabrous apices erect not re- 
curved, reflexed and spreading in fruit. Flowers white, corolla 
tube + inch long, lobes oblong. Lip fleshy ovate acute sides 
turned up. Cucullate stamen short truncate with a process on 
the side, white tipped with yellow. Petaloid stamen hooded, 
antheriferous one very narrow linear. style stout. ; 
Perak in the Kinta valley on the limestone rocks at Ipoh, 
and K wala Dipang. 
Closely allied to P. Grifithii but readily distinguished by 
its much more slender cylindric spikes. 
Ph. jagoranum Koch. Wochenschrift. VI (1863) p. 358. 
Rather a small kind often forming masses on the ground. 
Leaves solitary or two or three, the blade 6 to 7 inches long, 
oblong cuspidate 3 inches across, glabrous except the midrib on 
the back which is pubescent, grey green with darker patches 
running from the midrib above, or entirely light green, petiole 
8 or 9 inches long slightly flattened npwards, the swelling below 
the blade pubescent. Flower spike from the root stock 2 inches 
long fusiform slender on a terete peduncle an inch long. Bracts 
about 4 green lanceolate acute. Flowers in pairs. Sepals lan- 
ceate acuminate acute inch long green. Corolla tube long 
slender dilated upwards 4 an inch long white, lobes short oblong 
yellow. Stamen tubdeno longerthan corollatube. Cucullatestamen 
nearly entire hooded oblong with a lateral process apex orange, 
anther-bearing one petaloid with a rounded lobe on a linear base, 
anther on a narrow iateral lobe; petaloid one narrow linear 
oblong. Lip more fleshy oblong rounded edges incurved, 
glabrous, with a rounded process on one side on the inner 
face and a narrow linear lobe outside. Style very stout thick- 
ened in the middle. Capsule oblong oblique crustaceous green 
2 seeded inch long. Seeds elliptic oblong with a rounded back 
and flattened and grooved ventral surface brown polished, the 
aril at the base oblong reddish with two long curved claws. 
