58 NEW OE KARL MALAYAN PLANTS. 



ribbed. Floral bracts small. Calyx tubular rather thick 

 3 lobed lobes short obtuse, split shortly on one side as long 

 as the corolla tube } inch long. Corolla tube thick, lobes 

 linear oblong obtuse longer than the tube. Stain i nodes 

 narrower linear oblong. Lip short obovate more fleshy 

 entire. Anther linear oblong with a quadrate crest 3 

 toothed shortly at the tip. 



Borneo: Luhdu (Foxworthy 42). 

 Zingiber florid us, n. sp. 



Stem slender 2 feet tall. Leaves remote ovate lan- 

 ceolate acuminate glabrous thin narrowed at the base a 

 very little 4 inches long 1] inches wide, hardly petioled. 

 ligule very small truncate, sheath narrow. Inflorescences 

 radical. Peduncle slender 6 inches tall ] . inch through 

 covered with elongate sheaths glabrous. Spike fusiform 

 acuminate 3 inches long, all yellow. -Bracts oblong 

 rounded at the tip. 1 inch long half an inch wide, striate 

 glabrous. Bracteole lanceolate linear obtuse H inches 

 long by r 'o inch wide, hairy. Calyx spathaceous. hairy, 

 apex rounded blunt. Corolla tube slender. 1 inch long 

 lobes lanceolate acute, J inch long. Up lanceolate acute 

 entire bright yellow. Anther elliptic broad fawn color, 

 beak shorter. 



Sarawak: Quop (Oct. 1907) (J. Hewitt). 



Allied to Z. gracilis but with yellow bracts. 

 Alpinia (§ Ceno'fophoii) microloplion, n. sp. 



Leaves lanceolate caudate, base acuminate softly 

 hispid on both surfaces, more densely on the midrib on 

 both sides and the edges, 13 inches long 2f inches wide 

 petiole J to nearly 1 inch long, ligule lanceolate obtuse 

 half an inch long, hairy (glabrescent in older leaves) 

 sheath reticulate nearly glabrous. Panicle 4 inches long 

 (or more, incomplete) densely roughly yellow hairy, 

 branches short 2-3 flowered hairy, \ inch long. Bracts 

 spathaceous hairy, with a three lobed limb, lobes short 

 tooth-like. Calyx shorter, | inch long goblet shaped, base 

 narrowed gradually dilated upwards, very shortly 3 lobed 

 with rounded lobes, all hairy. Corolla tube rather slender 



Jour. Straits Branch 



