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spike, sometimes involute, glabrous, except at the top. The tops of the 

 scales are ovate, those of the peduncular leaf rather acute, all with a mucro. 



The spike is usually composed of only a few very large bracts. In 

 the first appearing spikes the number is 13 — 20, sometimes 24. In older 

 plants the number sometimes becomes greater. The bracts are flower- 

 bearing quite from the base. 



They are broadly-ovate for the greatest part, somewhat narrowed at 

 the top and than broadly rounded, not very dense, the breadth much greater 

 than the length of the free portion, and form short pouches, which are wide 

 above and downwards gradually narrowed and which are almost as long as the 

 free portion and rather convex; the free portions are erect, close to the 

 lower ones, and form a continuation of the pouch with an ovate mouth, 

 the blunt top outward bent. 



An average bract is large 45 X 25 or 45 X 35, + 20 is adnate. The coma- 

 leaves 60 X 26, sometimes 60 X 35, very shortly adnate (12 mm.). An 

 intermediate leaf is 58 X 38, pouch almost 25. In another one the intermedial 

 and the coma-bracts were : 55 X 30 (pouch 20) ; 53 X 35 (pouch 25) : 54 X 35 

 (pouch 23); 73 X 27 (pouch 19). 



The coma-bracts are bright-carmine-red, mostly 576 — 582, sometimes 

 551 — 554, dark-purple in the upperpart, with green stripes at the base; 

 the medial bracts are green-and violet-striped or green with a purple spot 

 at the top only, the three lowest nearly quite green (276 — 281). The 

 bracteole is short, 17 mm., pellucid. 



The flowers are broad, compact and short. They are enclosed in the bracts. 



The calyx has three rather large rounded teeth. The coroll tube is 

 short and wide, with a wide faux and mouth and a thick ring of hairs. 

 The faux broad, not much narrowed downwards, the lip nearly orbicular, 

 the bi-lobulate midlobes a little prominent by the incurving of the side-lobes, 

 but without an emargination between them. The staminodes are very 

 broad and folded up in the broad, cucuUate dorsal petal. The anthers 

 are broad and thick, the spurs almost half as long as the loculi, the 

 connective finely hairy, not produced at the top, the filament short, 

 broader than long, the side-petals ovate. 



A measured flower was 40 long, calyx 8, coroll-tube 14, thus almost 

 '/a of the length of the flower, the dorsal petal 14 X '2. 



Another flower 46 long, C. 10, Tube 16, faux 10. lip 18X16, 11 

 broad at the base, the tube here thus proportionally longer that than in 

 the former; staminodes 14 X 10, 10 long inside, 13 long outside, filament 

 3 X 3.5 ; stylodes 6. 



Distribution and vernacular names: The species here described is 

 cultivated throughout Java and isfound spontaneous in the teakforests(Randubla- 

 tung, Kediri and probably elsewhere). Backer collected it growing spontaneous 



