D i s t r i b u't i o n. 



Java: West-Java, in Mt. Tjisondong 300 M. (BACKER). Mt. Salak at 

 300—1000 M. (vern. name „pining tottof). Gunung Paniis prope Djasinga 

 400 M., in secundary forest". (BACKER, No. 10937). Ravine of the Tjisoka, 

 near Tjidadap, 650 M. (BACKER No. 22472). 



Borneo: Sarawak, Matang, Bau (teste RIDLEY 1. c ). 



Sumatra: Oostkust, Deli, Sibolangit, 425. M., nature-reservation. (LöR- 

 ZING No. 5872. ,,Herb, rhizomes hard, short subterraneous and suprater- 

 raneous often with '/ 2 M. long aerial roots, but never ascending high. 

 Foliaceous stems 1—2 M. tall. Old leaves green above pale green below, 

 midrib a little brownish. Inflorescences short-peduncled, peduncle curved, +40 

 mm. long, 5 mm. thick near the base. Spike fusiform, + 100X 30— 40 mm , 

 broadest below the middle. Bracts bright brownish-scarlet, with a needle- 

 shaped green point under the top. One flower open at a time with se- 

 veral-buds above it and withering flowers and fruits below. Fruits com- 

 pressed, 25X20 X7,5 smooth shining redbrown crowned by the calyx. 

 No bracteoles. Ovary glabrous crimson, calyx bright crimson at the base, 

 white above. Coroll (also in bud) beautifully scarlet. Flower always closed, 

 by pressing the base at both sides it opens like a snake's mouth. Upper 

 lip (dorsal petal) and underlip (anterior petals) almost equal, enclosing 

 labellum and stamen both overlapping laterally. Labellum and stamen 

 bright yellow. Style scarlet-crimson"). 



Hornstedtia elongata K. SCH. (1904) 200, excl. descript.; VALETON 

 in Bull. (1904) in Icones bog. (1905) t. 166.— Donacodes elongata T. et B. 

 Cat. 1816, 57 et 380 (nom. nud.) var. albescens.— Amomum macronodum 

 Gagn. in Bull. S. B. (1904) t. 51, 450.-- Amomum elongatum K. SCH. (1899) 

 303. (Tab. 9, fig. 9-14). 



Var. taluensis VAL. Characteres genuinae, sed Iabelli auriculae crenatae, 

 sine processu dentiformi, teste collectons: „Petals violaceous, lip with vio- 

 laceous streaks. Bracts floccose-tomentose". 



Distri-butio ri: 



Genuina. Sumatra: no locality (probably near Padang), (TeySMANN in 

 1857. Cult, in Hort. Bog.). 



Java: Cult. H. B. Ill, 5, 7, 10, and 22 (the latter formerly distributed under 

 XIB42). Not wild. 



var. taluensis. Sumatra: Padangsche Bovenlanden, in mt. Talu, in open 

 forest, common, 850 M. (BüNNEMEljER 35, 8 April '17). 



This species, donated only with a nomen nudum till then, was described 

 almost simultaneously by the writer and by GAGNEPAIN from materials 

 cultivated in the Bot. garden and derived from the original stock, imported 

 by TEYSMANN, specimens having been sent to mr, GAGNEPAIN by the 

 Direction of the Bot. gard, without my knowing, and without any notes 



