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Inflorescence: Owing to the broad' imbricating numerous bracts^ the 

 iufl. is strobiliform but the bracts are affixed with their broad base to the 

 axis, concave and erect, imbricating but with free margins, forming pouches 

 by means of their stiff turgescent structure, but these are open laterally 

 and not to be compared with those of Curcuma. If isolated they are 

 smooth at their backside, much broader than long (35X50) while those 

 of Curcuma always show the scars of the lower, adnate bracts. The bracts 

 are all equal, no coma. The spikelets consisting of 3 or more flowers are 

 enclosed in convolute, not cymbiform bracteoles. The peduncle is slender 

 short without a peduncular leaf. 



Flower: The flower is 70 mm. long. The ovary is elliptical, glabrous, 

 normally 3-celled but often one celled with an axile placenta, with erect 

 ovules reminding Haplochorema. (see PI. 14). The stylodes are extremely long 

 and thinly subulate (12 mm.). The stigma is beaked, different both from 

 Gastrochilus and Curcuma. 



The calyx is short (16 mm.) wide tubular, sheathing at the top, if 

 explanated it is ovate subacute, minutely three denticulate. 



The corolla tube is a little longer than the bracts (38X3) gradually 

 dilated above the middle into a slender infundibular faux (5 mm. wide.) 



No cupshaped faux, no hairy annulus. 



The petals are thin ovate lanceolate (18X6) subacute, the dorsal one 

 (20X9) subacute, subcucullate, blunt, not fornicate, not rostellate. 



The staminodes are free from the stamen and inserted between this 

 and the lip, a little to the outside, they are shorter than the petals, obo- 

 vate-elliptical, with a broad base, sideway overlapping the stamen, puberulous. 



The lip is obovate rounded entire (not three lobed) expanded (not 

 curved upward) incised at the top unto 1/4 of the lengh, straight rigid, 

 without a thickened central bar and instructed in the lower haJf with two 

 parallel rails, forming a kind of gutter which leads to the faux, and passing 

 into the base of the stamen. Evidently this constuction of lip and staminodes 

 has not the least resemblance with that of Curcuma. 



The lip measures 25X20 mm. It is creamcoloured (171) with a lemon 

 yellow (211) centre with fanlike pellucid, white and reddish veins. 



The filament is short and broad, 3 to 4 mm. tall and wide, and 

 continues without a narrowing into the wide fleshy connective. The anther- 

 cells are parallel, linear, adnate to the incurved margins of the connective 

 which projects on both sides; with a short free pointed base; the tips of 

 the cells pass into the incurved borders of the short fleshy emarginate 

 prolongation, only 1 mm. long. The anther measures 6 mm. and is 3 mm. 

 wide. Stamen and staminodes are puberulous on the back. The pollen is 

 broadly elliptic, smooth, not cohering. 



The fruit is still unknown. 



