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1. A. f usiforme sp. nov. 



Stem 1.5 in tall. Leaves narrowly elliptic, acuminate, cuspidate, 

 the upper surface glabrous, beneath minutely velvety-pubescent, pale, 

 glaucous on the lower surface, 30 cm long, 9 cm wide; petiole 1 em long; 

 ligule oblong, truncate, pubescent; sheath glabrous, ribbed. Spike basal, 

 prostrate, slender, 15 to 45 cm long, the base with short ovate bracts. 

 Flowers in pairs, in distant bracts which are hardly imbricate. Bracts 

 linear-oblong, 5 cm long, ribbed and dotted between the ribs, obtuse. 

 Bracteole spathaceous, 3 cm long, split on one side, and with two ciliate 

 points. Calyx tubular, hairy, 3 cm long; lobes lanceolate. Corolla- 

 tube short, lobes long, lanceolate, hooded at the tip. Lip bifid, with 

 linear obtuse lobes, elongate but shorter than the stamen and adnate to 

 the side of the filament. Filament short, thick, strongly winged. Anther 

 6 mm long, linear, hairy. Crest long, oblong, shortly trilobed at the 

 base. Style as long as the anther-cells. Stigma triangular, hairy. 

 Ovary elongate. Fruit fusiform, glabrous, ribbed, 4 cm long, 7 mm thick, 

 terminated by the hairy 1 cm long style. 



Mindanao, Surigao, Biga Creek, Bolster 331, 22J,, in forests 150 to 350 ft. alt., 

 flower yellow, or yellowish-white, native name -'Loya-loya." Negros, Elmer 9509. 



Apparently allied to the genus Geoeharis, but I am not sure about the lip for 

 what I take to be the lip looks more like staminodes. Altogether a very curious 

 plant which may prove to be the type of a new genus, here provisionally placed 

 under Amomum. 



2. A. Warburg ii K. Schum. Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 257. 



Vastus Warburg* K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 27 (1899) 240. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, the base narrowed but 

 rounded and suboblique, glabrous on the upper surface except at the 

 extreme base, subtomentose beneath, the midrib pilose, coriaceous, 20 to 

 25 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide; ligule short, truncate, hardly 1 mm long; 

 petiole subtomentose, about 1 mm long. Spike dense, short-peduncled. 

 Bracts lanceolate, acute, subsilky, 1 to 8 cm long. Bracteoles tubular, 

 silky, 2-toothed. Ovary silky. Calyx 4 cm long, deeply cleft on one 

 side and with three subulate lobes. Corolla-tube one-third shorter than 

 the calyx, the lobes spathulate, obtuse, 2 cm long. lip obovate, 1.6 cm 

 long. Filament oblong. Connective-crest truncate, a little wider than 

 the anther, tomentose. 



Southern Mindanao, {Warburg). 



Endemic. 



3. A. Loheri K. Schum. 1. c. 247. 



A fairly tall plant. Stems 5 mm in diameter. Leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, attenuate-acuminate, the base narrowed, glabrous, 30 to 35 cm long, 

 3 to 4 cm wide; petiole 1 to 3 mm long; ligule 5 mm long, truncate, 

 coriaceous. Spike ellipsoid, 3 to 5 cm long, the peduncle as long as the 

 spike, white-pubescent, with a few ovate, glabrous, 0.8 to 1.2 cm long 

 bracts, the outer ones soon disappearing. Bracteoles tubular, 2-lobed, 



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