188 RIDLEY. 



10. A. pubiflora K. Schum. in Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 313. 

 Hellenia pubiflora Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 2 (1843) 235. 



Stem 1 to 2 m tall, slender. Leaves narrow, linear-lanceolate, atten- 

 uate, very acuminate, glabrous, 30 cm long, 3 cm wide, narrowed to the 

 base, hardly petioled ; ligule 5 mm long, ovate, edge white-ciliate. Pani- 

 cle 20 cm long, the peduncle about 10 cm long, inclosed in the upper 

 leaf-sheaths, the two lower branches distant, 5 to 10 cm long, the upper 

 part fairly dense, with short branch lets each carrying 3 or 4 flowers, 

 the rachis and branches pubescent. Bracts caducous. Flowers white, 

 nearly 2 cm long. Calyx tubular, gradually dilated upward, 3-lobed, 

 the lobes obtuse, ovate, all pubescent. Corolla-tube hardly longer, the 

 lobes oblong, rounded at the tip, glabrous. Lip fleshy, base narrowed, 

 channeled, limb bifid into two unequal, iinear-oblong lobes much shorter 

 then the petals. Stamen glabrous; filament nearly twice as long as the 

 lobes; anther half as long as the filament, crcstless. Staminodes short, 

 tooth-like, from the tube of the lip. Fruit globose, glabrous, 1 cm long, 

 4-seeded. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet. Elmer 6,168. Guimaras, Ritchie 34- Mindanao, 

 Taumo, (Warburg 14586): District of Davao, Cupdand 319: District of Zam- 

 boanga, For. Bur. 9100 Whit ford & Hutchinson: Province of Surigao, Bolster 213. 



Endemic. 



ill, A. flabellata sp. nov. 



Stem slender, about 1 m tall. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 with a long point, glabrous, margins denticulate at the tip, 30 cm long, 

 2 cm wide; petiole short, or sometimes 1 cm long; ligule ovate, entire, the 

 margins minutely white-pubescent. Panicle rather strict, with two or 

 three densely flowered ascending branches, glabrous, the peduncle 15 cm 

 long, the panicle as long. Bracts minute. Calyx cylindric, tubular, the 

 lobes 3, short, ovate, obtuse, ribbed, all glabrous, 8 mm long. Corolla- 

 tube a little longer, the upper lobe oblong, hooded, mucronulate, the 

 lower lobes obovate-oblong, rounded. Lip nearly as long, fan-shaped, not 

 bifid, with a short claw, then expanding abruptly into a suhreniform 

 4-lobed limb, the lobes subequal, the lower ones broadest, all rounded 

 and strongly veined. Staminodes nearly as long as the claw of the lip, 

 linear from a broad base. Stamen-filament short, linear, glabrous. 

 Anther oblong, shorter, crestless. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Bur. Sci. 2718, 2871 Meams: Province of Rizal, 

 Bosoboso, Merrill 1878. Mindoro, Pola, Merrill 2226. 



Var. major var. nov. 



A stout plant 6 m tall. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 

 16 to 30 cm long, 5 to 7.5 cm wide, the base broad; petiole short or none; 



