42 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
Allied to P. Zolingeri, Rchb. f. differing in the straight not 
oblique sepals, broader clawed petals, and three lobed lip. 
SCITAMINEAR. 
Amomum cylindrostachys, i. sp. 
Stems about 6 feet. Leaves lanceolate acuminate cane gla- 
brous, gradually narrowed to the base, 9 inches long 14 inch wide, 
sheath glabrous about 6 inches long, ligule truncate oblong papillose 
4 inch ‘long entire. Peduncles 5 “inches long covered with oblong 
distant sheaths an inch long or less split to the base. | Spike eylin- 
dric 3 inches long 1 inch “through. Bracts ovate lanceolate half 
an inch long, + inch through green. Calyx 4 inch long ampliate 
urceolate pale with three short lobes. Corolla # inch long, lobes 
narrow lanceolate acute white. Lip 5 lobed, 2 inch long side lobes 
short rounded, midlobe oblong truncate yellow darker in the centre 
with 2 red marks at the base. Anther crest, trifid dark red, the 
central lobe very short, the laterals narrow arcuate Jinear curved, 
Selangor: Se ae Mines track on a bank at the foot of the 
hill, April “1911 (No. 156). 
This species is allied to A. squarrosum, Ridl, differing in its 
glabrous leaves and thinner blunter bracts. , 
LILIACEAE. 
Dracoena robusta, n. sp. 
Stem 9 feet tall and nearly 2 inches through grey. Leaves 
linear lanceolate acuminate acute, with broad bases 10 inches long 
one inch across. Bracts on base of rachis linear acuminate. 
Raceme unbranched stout over a foot long. Flowers in os of 3, 
with three ovate acuminate bracts as long as the pedicels $ inch 
long, numerous rather crowded. Perianth - 2 inch long, base dilated 
pink, tube as long as the linear lobes apices of lobes. blunt, white. 
Stamens shorter filaments three fourths of the length of the lobes. 
Anthers oblong obtuse. 
Selangor: Sempang Mines track in thick forest. 
‘This seems to be nearest to ). Porteri of Wallich, a common 
low slender shrublet usually two or three feet tall, but is very much 
bigger and stouter in all parts. 
Pandanus globuliferus, n. sp. 
A dwarf pandan of the habit of P. parvus, Ridl., stem $ inch 
through. Leaves linear acuminate caudate 8 inches to a foot long, 
half an inch wide, margins armed with very small and slender 
thorns, apex narrowed, with closer set thor ns, ending rather abruptly 
in a long setaceous thorny point 2 inches long. Syncarps solitary 
cermin globose an inch long with broad subtending bracts oblong 
cuspidate “thor ny, as long and 4 inch wide. Peduncle 1 inch long. 
Drupes with a rounded ‘broad top, not dilated. Style 4 inch long 
Jour. Straits Branch 
