212 MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON PLANTS 
longiore cucullato et corniculato.  JLabellum brevius, obovatum, bilobum, lobis 
brevibus rotundatis. Stamen brevius, filamento gracili plano, anthera brevi 
oblonga, loculis obtusis, appendice nullo. Stylus gracilis, stigmate minimo. 
Stylodia pulviniformia. 
Camps VIa, VIb, VI c, 3100 to 5500 ft. 
This, at least when dry, curiously resembles a Cordyline. "The calyx (apparently 
rose-pink) separates from the ovary. The corolla, which appears to have been white 
or rosy-white, has a rather long slender tube and short lobes. The whole plant is 
glabrous. 
ALPINIA HIMANTOGLOSSA, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Folia oblonga, apice angustata, acuminata, acuta, basi cuneata, herbacea, superne 
glabra, subtus molliter velutinosa, 50 cm. longa, 9 cm. lata, petiolis longis graci- 
libus, ligula lanceolata obtusa apice hirta 1:7 cm. longa, vagina fere glabra. 
Panicula 7-8 cm. longa, pedunculo 10 cm. longo suffulta, e capitulis 3 subsessilibus 
remotis oblanceolatis basi angustatis 3-4 cm. longis composita, rhachi lanuginosa. 
Bractee tenues, caduce, oblongze, mucrone 3 cm. longo, glabre, 7:5-9 cm. longe 
vel (superiores) minores. Bractee florales ovate, involute, breviter mucronate, 
8-10 mm. longs, dense sericeo-hirte. Flores parvi. Calyx tubo brevi 1 cm. 
longo glabro, lobis lanceolatis corniculatis ad basin hirtis. Corolla tubo calyce 
equilongo, lobo postico lanceolato oblongo longe corniculato et cucullato 8 mm. 
longo in dorso parce hirto, lateralibus lanceolatis obtusis. Ladellum lineare, 
angustum, carnosum, truncatum, stamen superans. Stamen filamento lineari 
oblongo; anthere loculis ellipticis oblongis dorso hirtis, appendice nullo. Stylus 
quam stamen longior. Stigma ovoideum, in medio fovea transverso notatum. 
Camp VI», 3900 ft. 
This plant resembles in the form of the flower to some extent an .Eriolopha, but 
there is no distinct crest to the stamen, the connective is very slightly prolonged beyond 
the loculi in two lobes and is hairy, as is the back of the anther. The lip has the 
peculiar narrow truncate form of that genus, and the style is long with a curious 
club-shaped stigma of which the stigmatic cleft is well below the apex of the stigma. 
ALPINIA TEPHROCHLAMYS, K. Schum. & Lauterb. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxvii. (1899) 
277; Fl. Deutsch. Schutzg. Südsee, 226; in Engl. Pflanzenreich, H. 20, p. 322. 
Camps VIa and VI 4, 3100 to 3900 ft. 
Var. ASPERICAULIS, K. Schum. & Lauterb. 1. c. 226. 
Camp I, 500 ft. 
Originally collected in Kaiser Wilhelm's Land by Lauterbach. 
In habit and general form of the flowers this resembles the genus Plagiostachys very 
closely, but the stamen is long with a rather narrow linear filament (Schumann, how- 
ever, gives it as “ filamentum latissimum "), and there are no traces of the side lobes, or 
rather teeth, on the base of the lip. The variety aspericaulis is at first sight very 
different in appearance, the leaf-sheath being transversely barred with undulated 
thickened eorky lines, broken up and running from and over the ribs. These can be 
