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rous, pear-shaped, glabrous, trilocular. Sepals ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 4 mm long. Corolla-tube hardly 2 mm long, the lobes oblong. Outer 

 staminode 3 mm long. Lip with a villous callus. Capsule trigonous, 

 faintly wrinkled, 3-seeded, apex depressed. Seeds chestnut, transversely 

 furrowed, with a short bilobed aril. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Enrile, (Warburg 12160) : Province of Laguna. 

 Hallier: Province of Rizal, Santander, Bur. Sci. 3282 Ramos; Montalban, Merrill 

 5058; (Warburg 12495) ; Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 1041 Ramos; Tanay, Merrill 226. 3 : 

 Province of Tayabas, Merrill 4014 : Province of Benguet, Elmer 8955: Province 

 of Sorsogon, Elmer 7310. Negros, Copeland. Samar, Merrill 5231. Leyte, 

 Elmer 7297. Mindanao, District of Davao, (Warburg 14585), Copeland 469. 



Endemic. 



2. P. bracteosum K. Schum. 1. c. 123. 



A small loosely tufted plant 1 m tall. Leaves glabrous, long-pet- 

 ioled, the petiole 40 cm long, the knee 4 cm long, the lamina ovate or 

 elliptic, subacute, 30 cm long, 15 cm wide. Peduncle 30 to 45 cm 

 long. Spikes three or four, oblong, 5 cm long or more, about 3 cm 

 apart. Bracts linear-oblong, 3 to 4 cm long, pale. Flowers in pairs, 

 shortly pedicelled. Bracteoles keeled and hairy. Ovary trilocular, 

 thickly hairy. Sepals very narrow, linear-lanceolate, acute, 10 mm long. 

 Corolla-tube rather thick, 1.5 cm long, hairy, the lobes short, rounded. 

 Capsule 1- to 3-seeded, obliquely ellipsoid or rounded, 3-angled, ap- 

 pressed-villous. Seeds 7 mm long, smooth, yellow, the aril bilobed. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, (Cuming 1)66) : Province of Albay, (Vidal 

 3976). Mindanao, District of Davao, (Warburg 14615): Lake Lanao, Mrs. 

 Clemens 423. Samar, Merrill 5206, 5232. Leyte, Elmer 7294; (Cuming 1756). 



Endemic. 



18. PHRYNIUM Willd. 



Tufted herbs with long-petioled ovate or oblong leaves. Inflorescence 

 capitate, produced from the side of the petiole, with a few large outer 

 bracts and containing numerous flowers, solitary or in pairs or threes on 

 short peduncles. Sepals linear or oblong. Corolla-tube a little longer, 

 the lobes oblong or ovate. Lip usually shorter, with a transverse callus, 

 cucullate, short. Ovary trilocular. Seeds 1 to 3, ellipsoid, triangular, 

 with a thin dry aril. 



Species 12, Indo-Malayan. 



1. P. philippinense Ridl. in Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 2 (1909) 570. 



Whole plant about 1 m tall, the rhizome thick, with stout roots emitting 

 many fibrils. Base of sheaths silky, the leaf-stalk to the flower head up 

 to 50 cm long, stout, hairy, above the inflorescence 20 cm long, the 

 lamina 30 to 40 cm long, 15 cm wide, glabrous, oblong-elliptic. Capit- 

 ulum large, 3 cm thick in flower, 5 cm in fruit. Bracts oblong, ribbed, 

 soon breaking into fibrils at the tip. Bracteoles similar. Flowers white 

 and pink, in pairs, shortly (1 mm) stalked. Ovary silky. Sepals linear, 

 acute, closely ribbed, hairy only at the tip, longer than the corolla-tube. 



