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1. L. Haenkei Presl Eel. Hunk. 1 (1827) 111, t. 18. 

 Alpinia leptosolenia K. Solium, in Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 312. 



Stem fairly tall. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, 

 caudate, base acute, glabrous, 30 cm long, 2.2 cm wide; ligule 2 mm 

 long, retuse, glabrous. Panicle erect, 7 cm long, ovate, many-flowered, 

 rachis glabrous, with usually four bracts at the base. Flowers pedicelled, 

 the pedicels 2.5 cm long. Ovary glabrous. Calyx tubular, 1.5 cm long, 

 tip shortly 2-lobed. Corolla-tube 7 cm long, narrowly tubular, glabrous, 

 the lobes 1.2 cm long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Lip twice as long, 

 oblong, obtuse, recurved. Stamen-filament very short. Anther 5 mm 

 long, connective not prolonged. 



Luzon, ( Haenke ) . 



2. L. insignis Ridl. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1905) 84. 



Stem 1 to 2 m tall. Leaves linear, acuminate, glabrous, narrowed 

 to the base, tip caudate, 25 cm long, 1 cm wide, midrib stout; sheaths 

 15 cm long, with the ligule as an erect pair of auricles oblong and 

 rounded at the tip. Bracts at the base of the inflorescence 3, papery, 

 lanceolate, caudate, 15 cm long, 2 cm wide. Panicle 7 cm long, with 

 distant, 2 cm long branches, each bearing two or three flowers. Flowers 

 sessile, white. Calyx tubular, 6 cm long, bilobed, the lobes short, ovate, 

 the tube split down one side. Corolla-tube slender, 12 cm long, the 

 lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, 2 cm long. Staminodes linear-oblong, 

 shorter and narrower. Lip fleshy, elongate, 2 cm long, rolled up when 

 withered. Stamen short. Anther oblong, the crest -broader, large, 

 rounded, entire. Style longer. Stigma cup-shaped, hairy. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Twin Peaks, Elmer 6Jf28, on gravelly land-slides 

 in the pine region. 



13. KOLOWRATIA Presl. 



Tall herbs. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, pctioled, the ligule 

 entire. Inflorescence terminal, branched, rachis flexuous. Spikes alter- 

 nate, distant, with linear-oblong bracts, densely arranged. Calyx spatha- 

 ceous, cleft on one side, apex trifid. Corolla-tube short, the lobes broad, 

 hooded. Staminodes subulate. Lip small, obovate, with trilobed 

 apex. Stamen-filament broad, fleshy, adnate to the corolla-tube. 

 Anther linear, elongate, with a short prolongation of the connective. 

 Capsule woody. 



Species two, endemic. 



1. K. elegans Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1827) 113, t. 20. 

 Renealmia gracilis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 1. 

 Renealmia cxaltata Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 1. 

 Alpinia gracilis Bolfe in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 316. 

 Alpinia gigantca F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 225. 



Alpinia elegans K. Sclmm. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 27 (1899) 288; Pflanzenreich 

 20 (1904) 352. 



