THE SCITAMINEJE OF THE PHILIPPINES. 191 



villous-hairy ; sheath villous especially on the keel and edges. Panicle 

 5 to 8 cm long, with a short villous rachis and 5 to 8 branches from 3 to 

 7 cm long, covered with short, ovate, ribbed, persistent bracts. Basal 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, 1 cm long, villous. Flowers shortly pedicelled, 

 14 mm long. Calyx cylindric, 3-toothed, villous. Corolla-tube exceed- 

 ing the calyx, 14 mm long, the lobes linear-oblong, the upper one largest, 

 hooded, the other two with a kind of terminal boss, all hairy, the two 

 lateral ones only near the tip. Lip short, bifid to the mouth of the tube, 

 the lobes linear-oblong, truncate, glabrous, adnate to the linear, acute 

 stamiuodes which are nearly as long, and to the stamen-filament which 

 is lineai-, glabrous and rather short. Anther oblong, with a small semi- 

 ovate crest. Capsule globose, 1.2 cm in diameter, red, sprinkled with 

 scattered hairs. Seeds 5 mm long, subtrigonous, smooth. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, (Baenlce) : Province of Tayabas, ( Warburg) , 

 Elmer 9078. Nkgros, Gimagaan River, Copeland, Whitford IGlfi ; Talaban River, 

 For. Bur. 5590 Everett; Cuernoa Mountains, Elmer 9578. Mindanao, Dagalpan, 

 Warburg). Bucas, Merrill 5273. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



A. mollis Presl Eel. llaenk 1 (1827) 110; K. Schum. 1. c. 369. 



A slender herb, the stems 30 cm long. Sheaths glabrous, striate.' 

 Leaves shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into a 

 petiole, the uper surface glabrous, beneath silky-tomentose, soft, 13 to 16 

 cm long, 2.3 cm wide; ligule 4 mm long, obtuse, villous. Panicle erect, 

 terminal, with sometimes a longer branch at the base. Rachis velvety. 

 Flowers very shortly pedicelled, unknown. Capsule globose, 6 to 10 mm 

 in diameter, yellowish, subtomentose, few-seeded. 



Luzon, (Haenke). 



Schumann was unable to find the type of this species, and the description is too 

 imperfect to identify it. 



15. COSTUS Linn. 



Tall herbs, the stems often spiral, sometimes branched. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, shortly petioled, the ligule forming a complete ring. Flower- 

 spike terminal or basal. Bracts stiff, often spiny. Calyx tubular, 3- 

 lobed. Corolla-tube broad-funnel-shaped, as long as the calyx-tube, the 

 lobes large, lanceolate or oblong. Lip large, obovate, usually entire, 

 broadly trumpet-shaped. Staminodes absent. Stamen very broad and 

 thin, the connective large, acute or curved upward. Anther-cells linear. 

 Fruit a woody capsule splitting on one side. Seeds numerous, angled. 



Species about 40, chiefly South American and African ; a few Indo-Malayan. 



Spike terminal on the leafy stem 1. C. speciosus 



Spike radical - 2. C. clemensac 



