Distribution: 



Java: Cultiv. in Hort. Bog. XI B, IV, 101. Origin unknown, Java? 



The length of the scape varies from 203— -500— 803 mm., chain. 25 aj 

 the base, 14 in the middle in the living plant. Scales about 100X45, 

 bright pink with a green mucro below the tip, the two uppermost 

 appressed to the spike and as long. Diam. of spike about 130 or smaller 

 length 60—70. Torus conical short not much lengthened after flowertime, 

 40 X 30. Involucral bracts (and uppermost scales of the scape) elliptical 

 obtuse 100 X b0 — 120 X 70 > ascending, their upper half patent and 

 a little recurved, numbering about 10; dark red (eod. 1,2,6) not purple. 

 Outer flowering bracts about 8 ascendent, tip rounded patent, much smaller 

 man the sterile bracts, (70X36). Bracts of following cycle about 20, about 

 50X8, tips recurved, diminishing to the centre to 40X15, 35 X 7, the 

 innermost 30 X 5. All pure red with a white marge. By the involucral 

 bracts which are ascending and only more or less patent in their upper 

 half, forming a single series and the ascendent much shorter outer flower 

 bracts the species is immediately to be distinguished from N. magnified 

 and speciosa. The flower which, generally has the same construction differs 

 however by the narrower lip (narrower auricles), and by the dorsal corolla 

 'obe far projecting beyond the anther, while in N. magnifica-^Xc. the anther 

 and tiie petal reach about the same length. Further the puberous con- 

 striction in the coroll tube is here wanting and only represented by sparse 

 'oose long hairs, embracing the style. 



Plate 4. 



Fig. I. Inflorescence longitudinally transsected, n. s.— Fig. 2. Flower, n. s,.— 

 Fig. 3. Flower from front, n s. — Fig. 4. Tube of the coroll showing the absence of 

 a hairy ring, enl.— Fig. 5. Labellum flattened, enl.— Fig. 6. Calyx, n. s.— Fig. 7- 

 Bracteole, n. s. — Fig. 8. Petal, n. s. 



Nicolaia rostrata ') VAL. n. sp. 



Herba sesquimetralis. Folia (3 tanturn adsunti modice petiolata, oblonga, 

 apice attenuato-acuminafa, basi sat obliqua altero latere rotundata, dorso 

 molliter puberula in sicco ochraceo-grisea, costa et linea marginali in sicco 

 densius rufo-puberula. Folia 480X100 vel 580X 130 vel 630X 105. Pe- 

 tiolus canalicuiatus 30—35. Ligula jam novella profunde emarginata vel 

 bifida, lobis acutis dorso albido-pilosa ipsa in sicco rubescens, parva (8 mm.). 

 Vagina colore straminea a ligula discrepans, tènuiter costulata. Inflorescen- 

 *ia globoso-cupularis 40—50 mm. diam. longe pedunculata erecta vel decurva. 

 Scapus gracilis, nunc (incompletus) 403 mm. longus 6 mm. latus. Inter- 

 nodia circ. 50— -70 mm. longa lanuginoso-pilosa, partes denudatae glabre- 

 scentes. Squamae internodia aequantes spathaceae acutae apiculatae glabrae- 

 suminae capituio appressae Bracteae involucrales lanceolatae longe acu- 

 minatae glabrae apice pilosuiae sat laxe confertae +40X10 (in sicco 1 . 



1) Name because of the long acuminate rostrate flower bracts. 



