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cm long, rather slender above. Inflorescence of two or three 9 to 12 cm 

 long branches on a peduncle about 15 cm long, yellowish- or grayish- 

 hairy when young, becoming subglabrous. Bracts 1 to 2 cm long, lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse. Flower spikes remote, 4 to 6 on a branch, the outer 

 bracts lanceolate, 1 cm long, glabrous. Peduncle short, at first erect, 

 afterwards decurved, pubescent. Calyx 3-lobed, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 tip blunt, pubescent. Corolla white, longer, segments ligulate. Stam- 

 inodes obovate, petaloid, obliquely truncate, a little longer, spotted. 

 Cucullus short, rigid. Capsule 8 mm, roundly triangular, apex truncate, 

 3-celled, 3-seeded, the seeds angled, truncate, with a thin aril. 

 Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 9U/7, 7611. 



3. M. congestum sp. nov. 



About 1 m tall, tufted. Leaves thin, lanceolate, acuminate, cuspidate, 

 base cuneate, glabrous on the upper surface, hairy beneath, 30 cm long, 

 6 cm wide; petiole slender above, 55 cm long including the sheathing 

 portion, pubescent. Inflorescence extruded at two-thirds the distance 

 from the base, a dense head of small spikes about 2 cm in diameter. 

 Peduncles 1 cm long, slender, angled. Bracts lanceolate, hairy, witli a 

 tuft of long hairs at the tip. Inner bracts short, oblong, obtuse. Sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate, blunt, ciliate at the tip, half as long as the corolla-tube. 

 Corolla- tube cylindric, the lobes as long, linear-oblong, obtuse. Lip 

 obovate, clawed, the limb oblong-obovate, rounded, entire, with a rather 

 large, semiovate, transverse ridge. Cucullus subspathulate, side lobe 

 decurved, blunt, spotted. Stamen spathulate, the apex dilated into two 

 wings. Style thick, the apex bent an angle and with a thick process at 

 the bend. 



Luzon, Provinces of Laguna-Tayabas, from Paete to Piapi, For. Bur. 9548 

 Curran. 



Easily distinguished by its inflorescence, and allied to a Bornean species. 



MARANTA Linn. 



Maranta arundinacea Linn., the arrow-root, is cultivated in the Philippines, 

 being locally known as Arourou. 



CANNACE^E. 



20. CANNA Linn. 



Rhizome perennial. Stems simple, leafy. Leaves large, ovate or 

 lanceolate, acute. Raceme terminal, simple or branched. Bracts small, 

 ovate. Flowers in pairs. Sepals three, lanceolate to oblong. Corolla- 

 tube cylindric, short, the lobes 3, equal, lanceolate. Staminal-tube 

 cylindric, short, the segments petaloid, unequal, a one-celled anther 

 attached to one lobe. Ovary 3-celled, many-ovuled. Style adnate at the 



