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sheath margin. Inflorescences axillary on erect peduncles 1 inch long, at 

 first obcuneate 1 inch long, of 4 branches each an inch long subtended by 

 convolute lanceate obtuse bracts. Bracts at length spreading, an inch long 

 1/5 inch wide, enclosing the spikes. Flowers numerous in the spikes, small, 

 white. Bract to spike oblong obtuse ribbed. Floral bracts small. Calyx 

 tubular rather thick 3 lobed, lobes short obtuse, split shortly on one side, 

 as long as the corolla tube, 1/5 inch long. Corolla tube thick, lobes linear 

 oblong obtuse longer than the tube. Staminodes narrower, linear oblong. 

 Lip short obovate more fleshy entire. Anther linear oblong with a quadrate 

 crest 3 tooihed shortly at the tip." 



"Borneo: Lundu (Foxworthy 42)." (Ridley, non vidi) 



Qastrochilus anotnalum (Hall, f.) K. Schumann 1904. — Gaslrochilus 

 Hallieri Ridl. 1899, \09. — Kaemferia anomala Hallier 1898, 357, tab. 9. 



The specimen grown in the Hortus bog. has been lost and no herbarium 

 appears to exist. From the rather bad drawing I conclude that the inflorescence 

 is a radical olongate spike longer than the petiole and bearing several 

 distanced bracts (spikelets), which do not imbricate, and probably include 

 some secundary bracts; neither these nor the bracteole however were men- 

 tioned. Hallier says "spike sessile solitary on the top of the ("erect":) stems 

 ("rami") which bear one or two leaves with long sheathes and petioles". 

 Ridley however who examined the plant places it among his exanthi. The 

 labellum is obovate unguiculate, not concave, and shortly bifid. The stamen 

 appears to resemble that of G. angustifolium by the long filament and not 

 or not much prolonged connective. Probably the inflorescence is radical 

 in the axil of the leaf, as it is in 0. angustifolium. But the shape 

 of the labellum, which induced Hallier to consider it as a Kaemferia, 

 does not point to a near alliance with the latter. Schumann suggests that 

 it might belong to Haplochorema, but the flower does not resemble that 

 of H. un if lor urn. 



Qastrochilus? Kunstleri Va\. — Hitcheniopsis Kunstleri Ridley (sub- 

 genus). Curcuma Kunstleri Bak. (1890, 214); Ridl. (1899, 120). — Kaempferia 

 Hort. bog. msc; — Costerus, das Labellum etc. \9\5; — Kaempferia nov. 

 sp. Gagnepain msc. Herb. bog. 



The study of living specimens of this species elucidated the fact that 

 it has been placed wrongly in the genus Curcuma, with which it has not 

 more in common than e.g. with Alpinia. See page 9. A discussion of the 

 structure will show this luce clarius: 



Habit: The habit is much more reminding a Qastrochilus than a Cur- 

 cuma, the leaves are purplish at the back side, a character never observed 

 in a Curcuma, often in Gasifochilus. 



