308 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
Hab. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga Pass, on trees, Ridley. 
This has quite the habit of 7. arachnites, but apart from the 
colouring of the flowers, the pecuhar long slender lip distinguishes 
it clearly. 
APOSTASIACEAE. 
Neuwiedia ocrea Ridley, n. sp. 
Stem below leaves 1.5 in. long. Leaves 7 or 8 elliptic, long 
acuminate, 10 in. long, 2.25 in. wide; petiole 4 in. long, strongly 
ribbed. Raceme 5 in. long. Bracts at base lanceolate acuminate 
-75 in. long above .5 in. long, terminal ones .2 in. long all but the 
lowest hairy and conspicuously nerved. Flowers about 40, buff 
colour, glandular hairy; pedicels hairy .1 in. long. Sepals and 
petals .5 in. long lanceolate with small caudicles at tip. Petals 
narrower than sepals, keeled; keel hairy. Stamens 3; anthers ob- 
long; filaments free at the top below connate with the style. Style 
curved, stout, shorter than the stamen with a rather large stigma. 
Ovary ellipsoid narrowed at both ends, hairy. 
Hab. Very rare, one plant only found on Bukit Tangega, 
Negri Sembilan at 2,000 feet. | 
Very distinct from all other species in its pubescence and buff- 
ochre flowers. Nearest ‘to N. Zollinger. 
SCITAMINEAE. 
Kaempferia cyanescens Ridley. Hlettariopsis cyanescens Rid- 
ley in Jour. Straits Branch Roy. As. Soc. 41, p. 31. 
Rhizome short, stout. Leafy stems 2 feet 3 in. tall, slender, 
glabrous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, long acuminate thin, base 
gradually narrowed blunt, 6 in. long, 1.25 in. wide; petiole very 
short or none; hgule ovate blunt .12 in. long. Flowers appearing 
with the leaves in a basal tuft an inch long; peduncle .25 in. long. 
Bracts lower ones ovate, upper ones lanceolate, 5 in. long, reddish- 
Oo? 
white. Ovary .1 in. long pubescent. Calyx slender tubular, 
spathaceous split on one side more than half way down with 3 small 
points 1.5 in. long. Corolla-tube 2 im. long, slender, lobes lanceo- 
late acute, thin, white, 1 in. long, .12 in. wide. Staminodes lanceo- 
late-acute as long but broader, white. Lip large obovate rather 
long-clawed, bilobed, violet veined with white. Anther white hairy. 
Hab. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga. Common on the hill 
behind the bungalow to the top. 
This plant was collected first by Mr. Napier who brought me 
a specimen, the flower of which was of poor condition and I put 
it down as Eletariopsis. Having now seen plenty in the same 
locality I see it is a Adempferia and re-describe it. 
Alpinia campanaria Ridley, n. sp. 
Tall plant. Leaves oblong cuspidate acuminate, glabrous ex- 
cept the ciliate edge, 2 feet long, 5 in. wide narrowed to base; 
Jour. Straits Branch 
