Leaves very short petioled, oblong or linear-oblong (700 X 100), shortly 

 acuminate with a long hairy apicula, with an acute base, quite glabrous 

 but densely ciliate at the edges and top. 



Sheaths striate rather feebly transversely ribbed. Ligula short (10—15 mm. 

 densely tomentose, like the upper margins of the petiole. 



Inflorescence fusiform, moderately peduncled. In one entire infl. 

 of ROBINSON'S the scape measured only '240 mm., the head 100 mm. 

 In the Ceram specimens the length of the scape varied between 100 and 

 250 mm. In the bornean plants however it surpassed 450 mm., the head 

 attaining 120 mm., and also in the Ambon specimens collected by BlN- 

 NENDIJK the only preserved upper part of the scape is much stronger and 

 apparently taller than in the ROBINSON Specimen. Scape silky-tomentose, 

 quite covered by the bracts which pass successively into the involucral 

 bracts. All bracts are oblong or oblong ovate with a broad, rounded or 

 somewhat cordate appressed top, with a small, weak mucro. Middle part 

 of the bracts ribbed and distinctly reticulate by transverse bars covered 

 with white condensed tufty tomentum (somewhat like H, scyphifera, only 

 less prominent) to the base the tomentum gets more dense, smooth; the 

 margins of the bracts are densely covered with appressed hairs. Torus 

 flat, involucral bracts very long, 90—100 mm. Bracteole wanting; in the 

 Ceram specimens bracteoles occur conform to the flowerbracts, 45X5, 

 glabrous. 



Flower resembling most that of H. minor. Buds acuminate, enclosed 

 by the calyx, 52 mm. long with a penicillate top, acumen 15 mm. Calyx 

 spathaceous lanceolate acute, subentire 60 mm. long in an open flower 

 villous with procumbent hairs, silky villous at the base, like the ovary. 

 Coroll tube densely hairy. Petals broad, rounded subcucullate at the top, 

 not converging around the anther, the lateral lobes sustaining the lip but 

 not connate at the base. Lip oblong ovate (calceiform), with narrow erect 

 auricles, incurved upon the anther, a little longer (3 mm.) than the petals, 

 with an elevated villous line bordering the hairy central bar. Anther sessile, 

 long, linear, divaricate at the top and at the base, with a small narrow 

 bilobed crest, with round lobes, each lobe terminating a theca. Thecae 

 tomentose, connective subglabrous. Staminodes O. Stylodes 2—3 mm. long, 

 consisting of about 8 cylindric, irregular, blunt, concave corpuscules con- 

 nected at the base and converging around the style, persistent and forming 

 a knot upon the fruit. Style hairy near the top. Stigma obovate or pyriform 

 with a round dorsal aperture. 



Fruit oblong hairy. 



The flower is pale rosy with a white anther (RuMPH); incarnate (peach 

 coloured) (BlNNENDijK); light red (RUTTENj, 



H. Rumphii is unlike H. elongata in the herbarium, though the flowers 

 are rather different and more resemble those of H. minor. In the herbarium 

 they are easily distinguished by the dense, setose tomentum of the edges 

 of the invol. bracts in this species, both glabrous in H. elongata. 



