— 67 — 



660 X 200 + 150 P. 

 600 X 215 + 120 P. 

 700 X 220 + 135 P. 

 710 X 195 + 170 P. 

 800 X 205 + 175 P. 



2.86 



2.8 



3. 



3.6 



4. 



The seventh leaf was not yet fully grown. The outer leaves are not 

 wider than the mean leaves, which makes a difference with the mesantha, 

 where they are always broader. 



Inflorescence. The peduncle which appears apart in the beginning of the 

 rainy monsoon may attain a length from 200 mm. to '/a and is laxly 

 enclosed with (mostly 2 or 3) close sheaths which are open on one side, 

 rounded at the top and provided with a short and hard or sometimes long 

 and weak point; sometimes this point is replaced by a small, rarely complete 

 blade. The whole peduncle is 8 mm. thick. The spike is 140—180 mm. 

 long by 60—80. 



The bracts are weak-leathery, the lowest almost glabrous the coma- 

 bracts covered with very short fine hair. All flower-bearing from the very 

 base. Nearly always a bract-shaped adnate sheath is placed under the spike 

 at a little distance. 



The whorls are rather distanced. The pouches are broad and not deep ; 

 the bracts are canaliculate and much constricted near the base, while they 

 are dilated at the top, which gives them a spafulathe outline, characteristic 

 for this species. 



Explained they are almost orbicular or obovate, in front very blunt or 

 rounded. The adnate portion is always shorter than the free one, very broad. 

 The length of the free portion is in the lowest bracts almost equal to or some- 

 what smaller than the width, in the higher ones the length is somewhat greater. 



Dimensions of one of the lowest bracts : L. = 56, pouch = 20, breadth 

 (on the border ot the pouch) 37. In the 7th leaf of a parastichy: L 51, 

 pouch = 30, breadth 26. In one of the largest comaleaves L. = 70, pouch 

 20; breadth = 25. In another 72, pouch 15, br. 23. 



The coma-bracts are provided with a macro, which is sometimes very 

 short, hardly visible, and is wanting in the intermedial bracts. 



The colour of the coma-bracts is red-violet 551, descending to 556 

 and 561. The top is somewhat darker 552. Downward lighter, partly violet- 

 and green-striped. The 10 lowest bracts are iight-dirty-green, sometimes 

 nearly white, with a violet-dotted and striped top. The bracteoles are short, 

 almost 22 mm. and very broad. 



The flower is wholly enclosed in the bract, with a short bracteole, not 

 much longer than the tube (17 mm.) 



The flower is rather short and broad, of one of the largest flowers the 

 dimensions were: Calyx 11 mm., cor. 45, lip 17 X 17, with many folds, near 



