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Sessile fewflowered (1-3-f lowered) head or fascicle, terminal on the 

 stemless bulb, no special involucre, surrounded by the long radical leaty 

 scales: K. fissa Gagn. (1908). 



Sessile manyflowered head, no special (exterior) involucre; terminal on 

 the bulb, included by the large imbricating sheaths of the radical leaves: 

 K. angusiifolia. 



Peduncled manyflowered head, no special involucre; terminal on the 

 bulb, included by the erect rigid terete leaf sheaths: K. pulclna. 



K. Roscoeana. 

 K. Galanga. 



Manyflowered head sessile or peduncled, terminal on the bulb, involu- 

 crate by two large alternating imbricate sterile sheathing bracts: 



K. rotunda L. 



In Java the following species aarfound,ailansweringtothe above diagnose: 

 K. galanga Linn, only cultivated. 



K. angusiifolia Roxb, K. undulata Tet B., spontaneous and cultivated. 

 K. rotunda L., spontaneous and cultivated. 

 K. latifolia Bl.— (an Donn?), Enum 1827., spec, male cognita. 

 K. pulchra Ridl., introduced from Singapore, and cultivated in the 

 Bot. Garden. 

 In Borneo: 



K. atrovirens N. E. Brown. 



Species excludendae : 



K. ornata, N. E. Brown. | 



K. vittata, N. E. Brown, j See Gastrochilus. 



K. pandurata, Linn. | 



K. decus, sylvae, Holl. . . . See Haplochoreitia. 

 K. gracillima K. Sch. ... See Camptandra. 



Key to the determination of malayan species. 



A. Flowering stem and leaf bearing stem on separate bulbs, anther sub- 

 sessile, narrow, crest taller and wider than the anther, straight, bifid 

 to 1/3 or 1/2: K. rotunda. 



B. Inflorescence from the centre of the leafy stem. 



a. Leaves two (rarely 3) flat, expanded, with fleshy sheaths enclosing 

 the inflorescence. 



a'. Flowers white and violet, symmetrical, crest of the anther broad, 

 bifid recurved. Leaves concolor: K. Galanga. 



b'. Flowers violet, seemingly regular (cruciate), crest of the anther 

 spathulate with a very long linear claw. Anther shorter than the 

 crest, narrow, adnate to the tube and quite enclosed, only the 

 limb of the crest produced. Leaves variegated : K. pulchra {cwW^) 



b. Leaves numerous (3 or more). 



