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Up is yellow with dark purple spots. Also, the leaves are broader '(SOO X 

 100) and much more pubescent. 



Z. macradenia was collected in Padang, but Lörzing collected in Deli 

 a specimen which 1 refer here. In this both the corolla-tube and bracteole 

 are much shorter and surpass the calyx a little. This specimen is perhaps 

 an intermediate form. 



Distribution: Sumatra.- Padang, leg. Burck, C.H.B. XI. 25,^54; 

 Beccari (type specimen) ; Deli, Sibulangit 500 M., leg. Lörzing no 4376. (prob, 

 a variety) "Herb, 3/4 — 1.5 M high, Scape 400 mm. ; Bracts bright green with 

 thin red veins and a red margo. Flowers pale yellow, Labellum large 3 

 lobed, middlelobe a little emarginate, darkbrown with many conspicious 

 yellow spots. Connective almost as long as the labellum". 



18. Zingiber Lörzingii, Val n. sp. 



Herba robusta 1.5 — 2.5. M. alta. Folia maxima petiolata, lanceoiato-oblonga 

 adulta usque 630X150 mm. longa, apice acute attenuato-acuminata, basi 

 obliqua acuta subtus pills appressis conspersa. Petiolus40 mm. longus profunde 

 canaliculatus basi inflatus. Ligula (brevis?) scariosa, fugax. Vagina vix pilosula. 



Spica longe pedunculata magna subglobosa, squarrosa, appresse pilosula; 

 bracteae cymbiformes apice acuto uncinato-deflexae, siccando lanceolatae. 

 Bracteolae ovatae, acutae,convolutae tubum aequantes,40X 16. Flores majuscuii 

 (70 mm.) pallide flavi labello aurantiaco. Calyx subtruncatus dentibus 3 

 brevissimis subaequalibus (20 mm). Petalum dorsale lanceolatum acutissime 

 cucullatum. Petala laterales oblonga obtusa. Tubus 33 mm. longus. Labellum, 

 cum staminodiis basi plane adnatis rotundatis, late ovatum, latius quam 

 longum (28 X 30), . apice late rotundato, breviter incisum et dentibus 

 brevibus rotundatis instructum. Anthera 15 mm. longa, rostro aequilongo. 

 Ovarium pilosum. Stylodia subulato-cylindrica 7 mm. longa. Capsula magna 

 (40 X 15), superne attenuata et complanata, pilosula. 



"The rhizome is internally greyish-white. The inflorescences, resembling 

 a large "Ostrich-feather-aster" because of the projecting and decurved bracts, 

 + 150 mm. long, 120 mm. wide. Peduncle ascending, 100 mm. high. Younger 

 parts of the infl. whitish, older parts bright crimson red. Flower pale light 

 yellow; with a dark-orange coloured or coralred yellow-motled labejlum and 

 anther" (Lörzing). 



Habitat: Sumatra; Sibulangit, nature reservation at 350 M. in the ravine 

 Lan Klewang. 



Zingiber Kunstleri Ridl. has only been described from a drawing and 

 notes of Kunstler. The description here given of this new species agrees 

 in many capital points with the adumbrations of Ridley; e.g. the decurved 

 crimson lanceolate bracts, (he apparent wanting of staminodes, the white 



