182 RIDLEY. 



A tall stout herb 2 to 4 m tall, with a stout rhizome, the bases of 

 the stems swollen. Leaves coriaceous, usually reflexed, glabrous, oblong- 

 lanceolate, the apex acute, cuspidate, base rounded, nearly or quite 

 sessile, 30 cm long, 8 cm wide; ligule rounded, entire, reticulate, hairy, 

 8 mm long; sheath ribbed, hairy above. Inflorescence terminal, 30 

 cm long, the base of the peduncle covered with a long, papery, linear- 

 lanceolate bract 15 cm long, the rachis above flexuous. Flower-spikes 

 about 8, distant, alternate, sessile, 5 cm long. Bracts linear-oblong, as 

 long as the spike, 1 cm wide, pubescent, the margins ciliate. Flowers 

 5 or G on stout peduncles. Inner bracts keeled. Calyx spathaceous, 

 stiff, 5 cm long, reddish, split to the base on one side, apex with three 

 short, silky points, pubescent. Corolla creamy, as long as the calyx, 

 the tube cylindric, hairy, dilate at the apex, 3 cm long, the upper lobe 

 hooded, lanceolate, mucronulate, 3 cm long, the lateral ones oblong, 

 obtuse, keeled at the tips, mucronate. Lip shorter, obovate, subtrilobcd 

 at the apex, blunt. Stamen nearly as long as the upper sepal. Anther 

 linear, curved, 2 cm long, the connective shortly prolonged above the 

 anther-cells, rounded, entire. Style slender, filiform. Capsule woody, 

 ovoid, dehiscing into three segments, 4 em long, each segment 2 cm 

 wide, yellow, glabrous. 



LUZON, Province of Sorsogon, Sorsogon, (Hacnke) : Province of Bataan, Lamao 

 River, Mount Mariveles, Whit ford 13, Williams 309: Province of Bulacan, For. 

 Bur. 1211 Curran: Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 35 Foxworthy, Merrill 1695: 

 Province of Nueva Ecija, Carranglang, Merrill 239: Province of Pampanga, Mount 

 Arayat, Merrill U/13, Bolster 18: Province of Tayabas, Atimonan, Gregory Iff.- 

 Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 8610. Minooro, Baco, Merrill 1211. LETTS, 

 Palo, Elmer 1258, 1281. 



Endemic; very common in thickets along streams in ravines etc. 



In some specimens the leaves are very much larger, oblong, and distinctly 

 petioled, 60 cm long, 15 cm wide, with a terminal filiform point 10 cm long, and 

 a petiole nearly 2 cm long, probably the lower or middle leaves on the stem, or 

 perhaps a large form. The leaves on the growing plant are reflexed. 



Schumann puts this striking plant under the genus Alpinia, which I can not 

 indorse. The genus, however, as he limits it is so wide that it contains many 

 other plants at least as distinct as are most of the genera of Scitamineae. 



2. K. erucaeformis sp. nov. 



Stem 3 m tall, reed-like, with distichous, rather coriaceous leaves, 

 which are linear, acuminate, glabrous, 34 cm long, 4 cm wide, the base 

 broad; petiole none; ligule very short, rounded, glabrous. Panicle ter- 

 minal, 10 cm long, with (> branches. Branches cylindric, over 5 mm 

 thick, covered with ovate, acute, keeled, ribbed, gray sheaths, pubescent 

 when young. Pedicels short. Calyx spathaceous, with three small 

 points, glabrous, 2 cm long. Corolla-tube shorter, the tipper lobe ovate, 

 2 cm long, the lower ones connate, oblong, ovate, rounded, thinner. Lip 

 shorter, obovate, trilobed, lobes rounded, terminal one entire, thin-tex- 



