1 96 RIDLEY. 



Corolla-tube dilated upward, the lobes obovate, spathulate, hairy at the 

 tip. Staminodes thin, rounded, obtuse. Cucullus small, side-lobe linear- 

 oblong. Anther very short, the connective wing large, subtriangular. 

 Lip small, oblong, truncate, almost quadrate, the crest large, semiovate, 

 the longitudinal ridge silky. Capsule oblong, red, 1 cm long, hairy. 

 Seeds nearly 1 cm long, obscurely rugose-tubercled. 



Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7289. Negros, Gimagaan River, Whitford 1658. Min- 

 danao, District of Davao, Todaya, Copcland 12 J/8. Minooro, Alag River, Merrill 

 6132; Baco River, McGregor 314, For. Bur. 6780, 12103 Merritt. Batan, Bur. 

 Sci. 6260 Robinson. Luzon, Province of Isabela, Casiguran, Bur. Sci. 3100 

 M earns: Province of Tayabas, Whitford 63//. Camiouin, Babuyanes Islands, Bur. 

 Sci. 3936 F6nix. 



This species is most nearly allied to P. malacccnsc Ridl. of the Malay Peninsula, 

 differing in its more glabrous leaves, nearly glabrous sepals, and in the form 

 of the lip. It has been confused with P. capitatum Willd., a Chittagong plant 

 which has purple, sessile flowers. 



Endemic. 



19. MONOPHRYNIUM K. Sebum. 



Tall herbs, the leaves long-petioled. Panicles numerous, from a leaf- 

 sheath, peduncled. Spikes narrow, fascicled, densely imbricate. Bracts 

 small. Flowers solitary in each bract, with a two-keeled prophyll and 

 mesophyll. Sepals small, lanceolate. Corolla-tube as long, the lobes 

 lanceolate. Outer staminodes 2, obovate, a little longer than the corolla- 

 lobes. Cucullus much shorter, with a subauricled appendage. Ovary 

 3-locular, with ovules in all the loculi. 



Species 3, endemic. 



1. M. fasciculatum K. Solium, in Pflanzenreich 11 (1902) G8. 

 Calathea fasciculata Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1827) 108, t. 16, f. 1. 

 Phrynium fasciculatum Horan. Monogr. (1862) 11. 



Two meters tall. Leaves oblong or subovate-lanceolate, attenuate- 

 acuminate, base rounded, glabrous on both sides, 30 cm long, 8 cm wide ; 

 petiole 20 cm long, the upper part 4 cm long, flattened, glabrous. 

 Panicles 3 or 4, subsessile, or with an 8 cm long peduncle, the racemes 

 narrow, 6 cm long. Bracts 10, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 9 mm long, gla- 

 brous. Ovary silky. Sepals lanceolate, 4 mm long. Corolla-tube 3.5 

 mm long, the lobes 5 mm long. 



Luzon, (Haenke) ; (Warburg U/068) : Province of Tayabas, (Warburg 12921) , 

 Elmer 91J,8. 



Ilalmaheira. 



2. M. simplex Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot, 1 (1908) 270. 



A tufted plant 1 to 1.5 m tall, glabrous. Leaves thin, elliptic, 

 cuspidate, 18 to 20 cm long, 7 cm wide, base cuneate, the upper surface 

 glabrous, beneath strigose on the nerves, knee 1 cm long, the petiole 50 



