174 RIDLEY. 



8. A. lepicarpum Ridl. in Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 2 (1909) 604. 



Stems 3 to 5 m tall, 3 cm in diameter at the bulbous base. Leaves 

 about 12 to 14 cm apart, coriaceous, dark-olive-green, polished above, 

 paler beneath, linear-oblong, base rounded, apex acute, 60 cm long, 10 

 cm wide, quite glabrous; petiole 2 cm long, channeled above, the back 

 rounded ; ligule 1 cm long, oblong, truncate. Inflorescence radical, on 

 a 9 cm long peduncle, with rather distant, lanceolate, bracts. Bracts 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, ribbed, glabrous. Bracteoles narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, ribbed, 2.5 cm long, 4 mm wide, inner bracteole 

 shorter, strongly ribbed, pungent-mucronate, all glabrous. Ovary spar- 

 ingly pubescent. Calyx tubular, with three, lanceolate, mucronate- 

 pungent lobes, the tube pubescent, 2 cm long. Corolla-tube a little longer, 

 hairy, lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, 7 mm long. Lip entire, horizontal, 

 linear, gradually dilated at the tip into a rounded, emarginate limb, 1 

 cm long, 5 mm wide. Anther linear-oblong, apex retuse, crestless. 

 Inflorescence ovoid or subglobose, 8 cm long and about 6 cm thick. Fruit 

 globose, reddish, 1.5 cm long, ferruginous-tomentose, with short, erect, 

 scattered, Avarty processes at the tip, the calyx-tube long-persistent. 



Negros, Cuernos Mountains, near Dumaguete, Elmer 10044, in wooded ravines 

 on the edge of the river at an altitude of about 830 m. The form of the flowers 

 is like that of a Uornstedtia, but the inflorescence, fruit, and bracts that of an 

 Amomum . 



Endemic. 



A. lepicarpum var. pubescens Ridl. 1. c. 605. 



Leaves larger and more narrowed to the base, their margins distinctly 

 undulate; sheaths and petioles pubescent. Bracts wider. Fruit more 

 ru f ous-tomentose. 



Negros, Cuernos Mountains, near Dumaguete, Elmer 10384, in moist fertile 

 soil of dense shrubberies at an altitude of about 1,050 m; it may be a distinct 

 species, but is very closely allied to the type. The flowers are in a bad state for 

 dissection. 



8. HORNSTEDTIA Retz. 



Tall plants with a stout rhizome. Leaves oblong. Spikes peduncled, 

 from the rhizome, subcylindric or obconic. Outer bracts large, usually 

 red, ovate to oblong, forming a cup. Bracteoles thin, tubular. Flowers 

 numerous, sessile, red. Calyx spathaceous, thin. Corolla-tube long, the 

 lobes narrow, connivent. Lip narrow, linear-oblong, often much longer, 

 sides at the base erect, curved over the stamen. Staminodes none. 

 Stamen thick, short. Anther thick, bent at an angle with the filament, 

 crest small or none. Capsule oblong, with thin cartilaginous walls. 

 Seeds numerous, black. 



About 40 known species ranging from India through the Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago to northern Australia, headquarters in the Malay Peninsula and 

 Borneo. I here separate from this genus as laid down in my Materials for a 

 Flora of the Malay Peninsula 2 (1907) 34, the genus Nicolaia or Phaeomeria, as 

 Schumann does. 



