The inflorescences have quite the same beaker shape as those of H 

 scyphifera, only smaller. The outerbracts are as stiff and erect just as 

 these, with rather acute extant tips, but in stead of reticulate they are 

 quite smooth silvery silky, in vivo silvery white at the base, for the rest red. 



The flowering bracts are much shorter and weaker. 



The bracteole is tubiform spathaceous at the top and bilobed, half as 

 long as the corolla tube, enveloping the corolla only in very young buds. 

 The calyx is a little longer than the bracteole and of the same shape 

 enclosing the young corolla until it is haifgrown, and acuminate in the bud. 



The petala are very broad, the dorsal one elliptic. 



The labellum is threelobed but the middle part is short and not stiff, 

 the sidelobes or auricles very large, rounded and enveloping the anther 

 only in the bud. Being flattened it is as long as wide, 20 X 20 in an 

 adult flower. 



The connective is truncate not longer than the anther, but the top is 

 a little recurved and thickened. 



The filament is longer than the anther very broad at the base, nar- 

 rowing to the top but broader than the anther, adnate to the lip only at 

 the base below the auricles. 



No staminodes. Stylodes, connected forming a cylindrical hollow body, 

 bilobed at the top open at the backside. 



Hornstedtia rubra (BL.) VAL.—Dbnacodes rubra Bl. Enum (1S27), 

 54.— Nicolala rubra VAL. in Bull. (1004), 31 , 46 (nomen ianinm)— Arno mum 

 rubrum K. SCH. Pflanzenreich 250 (1904); ENGL. Jahrb. 1899 (Tab. 13). 



Rhizoma digitum crassum supra terrain repens, et ope radicum aë- 

 rearum longarum scandens (modo H. Pininga). Gaules médiocres. Squamae 

 vestientes dense imbricatae trigonae obsolete striatae et tomento denso, 

 villoso obtectae. 



Folia longiuscule petiolata (25—30 mm.), basi acuta apice attenuata 

 breviter apiculata, lanceolata (450 X HQ ve ' minora), in spec, javens. jam 

 novella glaberrima, in spec, sumatrano molliter puberula, in sicco per- 

 gamacea vel subherbacea, supra atro-grisea subtus brunneo-avellanea, 

 dense venoso-sfriata, costa gracili. 



Ligula late cblonga apice rotundata, membranacea, in sicco fragilis, 

 glabra, (1 5 —25 mm. longa X 10, cum parte quasi adnata). Vaginae teuere 

 striatae, sub lente incospicue recfangule reticulatae, glabrae. Spica clavata 

 (sive turbinata) cum scapo breviore vel longiore, nunc ipsa duplo longiore, 

 100—180 mm. longa. Bracteae exteriores scapi apice rotundatae spinuloso- 

 mucronatae ellipticae teuere striatae, tomento brevissimo denso vestitae 

 laxe imbricatae a basi inde increscentes, in spica ipsa (fertiles) distantes 

 (3—5 mm.), strobilaceae, patentes, intus concavae apice acuto recurvo 

 pursas aquiferas (Curcumae modo) sistentes. Br. exteriores (in spica parva) 

 rotundato-ovatae, 40 mm. longae, 40 latae, apice late rotundatae, sub 

 apicem brevi-mucronatae minute dense farinoso-tomentosae. Br. florales 

 coronam rosaceam. sistente's obovatae 45 X 40; internae angustiores, 



