190 UIDLEY. 



cm long or more. Panicle dense, 7 to 10 cm long, with short, 2-flowered 

 branches. Bracts very small, caducous. Calyx short, ampliate, urceolar, 

 5 mm long, glabrous, the lobes very short and broadly ovate. Corolla-tube 

 a little longer, the upper lobe oblong, hooded, the lateral ones oblong, 

 blunt. Lip flabellate, 4-lobed, the claw thick, rather short, the two 

 lateral lobes of the limb broad, rounded, the middle one bifid, the lobules 

 narrow, triangular-lanceolate, limb strongly nerved. Staminodes short, 

 subulate. Anther very short, crested, the crest large, oblong, truncate; 

 filament short. 



Palawan, near Iwahig, Bur. Sci. 112 Foxworthy. Flowers white. 

 Allied to A. conchigera and to A. rosella Ridl. 



15. A. brevilabris Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1827) 110, t. 11; Schum. in Pflanzen- 

 reich 1 c. 314. 



Stem 2 to 3 m tall. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 18 to 30 cm long, 

 3 to 8 cm wide, glabrous, denticulate on the edge near the tip; petiole 

 5 mm long; ligule ovate, rounded, entire, minutely white-ciliate at the 

 tip; sheath glabrous, striate. Panicle 25 cm long, the peduncle nearly 

 the same length, glabrous, branches two, 8 cm long, the terminal portion 

 with short branchlets, each with 3 or 4 flowers. Bracts caducous. Calyx 

 tubular, 1 cm long, 3-lobed, the lobes ovate, short, glabrous. Corolla- 

 tube one-fourth longer than the calyx, the lobes short, broad, oblong- 

 ovate, blunt, rounded at the tip. Lip short, broadly and shortly bilobed, 

 the lobes bilobed, the lobules oblong, truncate, divaricate. Staminodes 

 simple, linear, fleshy, half as long as the filament, which is hardly longer 

 than the 1 cm long crestless anther. Fruit globose, glabrous, bright-red, 

 5 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Whitford 58, For. Bur. 6520 Curran, For. Bur. 2203 

 Meyer, Elmer 6859, 6853, For. Bur. 1202, 2931 Borden, Merrill 5193 : Province of 

 Benguet, Elmer 6268: Province of Zambales, Merrill 2013: Province of Tayabas, 

 Whitford 655, Gregory 55. Batan, Batanes Islands, Santo Domingo de Basco, 

 Bur. Sci. 3580 F6nix. Mindoro, Baco River, McGregor 162, 18J t , For. Bur. 5253, 

 5489 Merritt. Masbate, For. Bur. 1103 Clark. Basilax, For. Bur. 3999 Hut- 

 chinson. Negros, Elmer 9501, 9531. 



Alpinia brevilabris seems to be a rather abundant species, as well as widely 

 distributed in the Philippines. Most of the collectors give the color of the flowers 

 as white with pink veining. 



§ Oligocincinnus. 



16. A. rufa K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 27 (1899) 293; Pflanzenreich 

 1. c. 361. 



Hellenia rufa Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1827) 114, t. 21. 



Stems 1.5 m tall, rather slender. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or lanceo- 

 late, rather abruptly cuspidate, sessile, 25 to 30 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, 

 hairy all over with long appressed hairs; ligule oblong, obtuse, densely 



