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have transverse bars at intervals, giving them a reticulated appearance. In the 

 above species the transverse bars are sometimes reduced to round pustules bearing 

 tufts of silky hairs, so that the sheaths appear spotted with white tufts; these tufts 

 run into transverse lines on the ligule. 

 Endemic. 



9. PHAEOMERIA Lindl. 



Tall herbs with lanceolate leaves. Capitula obconic or globose on tall 

 peduncles from the rhizome. Outer bracts large, usually spreading, 

 involucral. Floral bracts linear-oblong, colored. Bracteoles tubular, 

 spathaceous. Calyx bifid. Corolla erect, lobes lorate. Lip narrow, 

 short. Stamen-filament linear. Anther oblong, crestless. Fruits ob- 

 conic, the top rounded or flat, half-woody. Seeds numerous. 



Species about 10, Indo-Malayan. 



1. P. imperial is Lindl. Tntrod. Nat. Hist. ed. 2 (1836) 446. 



Alpinia magnified Rose. Monandr. PI. (1828) t. 75. 



Nicolaia imperialis Horan. Monogr. (1862) 32, t. 1. 



Hornstedtia imperialis Ridl. in Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Str. Branch 32 (1899) 

 148; Mat. Fl. Malay Penin. 1 (1907) 40. 



Ehizome short and stout, Stems 4 m tall, 3 cm thick. Leaves oblong, 

 acute, glabrous, 66 em long, 18 cm wide; ligule ovate, blunt, nearly 3 cm 

 long. Peduncle 1 m tall. Spikes cone-shaped, 12 cm long. Outer 

 bracts ovate-oblong, spreading, 12 cm long, pink. Floral bracts pink- 

 edged, white, linear-oblong. Calyx 1 cm long, deeply bifid. Corolla- 

 tube 3 cm long, the lobes lorate, thin, obtuse, pink. Lip longer, oblong, 

 obtuse, the sides convolute, pink-edged, white. Filament pubescent. 

 Anther emarginate. Fruits obconic, green, hairy. 



Mindanao, District of Davao, Williams 2943. 



Malay region; often cultivated and probably only so in the Philippines. 



10. PLAGIOSTACHYS Ridl. 



Stems tall, with lanceolate leaves. Spike or panicle from the side of 

 the leafy stalk, on a short peduncle with sheathing leaves. Flowers 

 small, very densely crowded, with oblong-ovate, laciniate bracts. Calyx 

 spathaceous, short. Corolla-tube short and thick, the lobes oblong, 

 fleshy. Lip flat, oblong. Staminodes two, short, subulate processes. 

 Stamen short and thick. Anther oblong, emarginate, crestless or crested. 

 Capsule ovoid or oblong, crustaceous, 3-celled. Seeds 3 or 4 in each cell. 



Species 5, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



1. P. philippinensis Ridl. in Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 2 (1909) 572. 



Stems 1 to 2 m tall. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at the 

 base, 20 cm long, 8 cm wide, glabrous on the upper surface, more or 

 less pubescent beneath; ligule truncate; sheath hairy; petiole winged 

 in adult leaves. Inflorescence lateral, near the base, simple, or 3-branched, 

 cone-shaped, G cm long, the branches 4 to 6 cm long, the peduncle stout, 

 covered with ovate sheaths, the rachis and bracts felted-pubescent. Bracts 

 lanceolate, acuminate, woolly. Flowers pale-red. Calyx tubular, bilobed 



