172 RIDLEY. 



pilose. Flowers pedicelled, the pedicel 2 mm long. Ovary silky. Calyx 

 tubular, 2-lobed, one lobe 2-toothed, minutely pubescent, 2 cm long. 

 Corolla-tube hardly longer than the calyx, the lobes 2 cm long. Lip 

 obovate, entire, 3 cm long. Staminodes none. Filament linear. Anther- 

 cells pubescent. Connective-crest three-lobed. 



Luzon, (Lohcr 675). 



This endemic species, in habit and in many other characters, resembles A. 

 trilobum, but differs, according to the description, by its entire lip and the 

 absence of staminodes. 



4. A. propinquum Ilidl. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1905) 84. 



Stems stout, about 2 m tall. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 cuspidate, 32 cm long, 8 cm wide, glabrous, drying dark, paler beneath, 

 the petiole very short; ligule oblong, truncate, 5 mm long. Capitulum 

 obconic, on a 7 cm long peduncle. Floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, pubes- 

 cent. Bracteole tubular, 1 cm long, pubescent, triad, two lobes connate 

 nearly to the tip. Calyx-tube 1 cm long, glabrous, trifid, the lobes 

 mucronate, keeled, setulose. Corolla-tube trumpet-shaped, pubescent, 

 the lobes oblong, obtuse, rounded, 1 cm long, yellow marked with red. 

 Lip obovate, 2 cm wide, the central bar elevatc-papillose. Anther oblong, 

 the edges setose, the crest 3-lobed, upper lobe rounded, the lateral ones 

 large, recurved, broadly oblong, obtuse. Filament thin, broadly linear. 

 Staminodes very short, subulate. Fruit subglobose or elliptic, red, 

 covered with short simple or forked processes. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 028-',, For. Bur. 5098 Curran; 

 Bugias, Merrill 4656: Province of Cavite, For. Bur. 7682 Curran: Province of 

 Laguna, Mount Banajao, For. Bur. 8030 Curran d Mcrritt: Province of Tayabas, 

 For. Bur. 7828 Curran & Mcrritt. Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya, Copeland 

 t$9S. Masbate, For. Bur. 170J t Clark. 



Native name Tutjis, the fruit eaten. Endemic. 



This species is allied to Amomum flavum Ridl. of the Malay Peninsula. Nearly 

 all the specimens cited above have no leaf specimens with them, but on two or 

 three distribution numbers fragments of Hornstcdtia philippincnsis were mixed 

 with the Amomum, so much so that, abnormal as it appeared, I referred the 

 fruit of the Amomum to the Hornstcdtia. A better series of specimens showed 

 that this was an error. 



B. A. elegans Ridl. 1. c. 84. 



Rhizome long, slender, covered with brown papery sheaths 1 cm long. 

 Stems slender, distant. GO cm tall. Leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, 

 cuspidate, 15 to 20 cm long. 1 to 1.5 cm wide, the upper surface 

 glabrous, beneath silky-hairy, shortly petiolcd; ligule small, truncate, 

 the petiole, sheath and ligule hairy. Inflorescence obconic, 1 cm long, 

 nearly sessile or distinctly stalked, on long stolons, covered with oblong- 

 ovate, truncate sheaths. Bracts oblong, obtuse, pubescent, with about 10 

 elevated nerves. Bracteole tubular, silky-hairy. Calyx tubular, silky- 

 hairy, 1 cm long, 2-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, silky, as long 



