LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. IL. Manila, P. I., January, 30, 1909. Art. 28. 
NEW PHILIPPINE ZINGIBERACEAE 
BY 
HENRY N. RIDLEY. 
(Dir. Botanic Gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements.) 
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Elmeria Ridi n. gen. 
Herbs with few or solitary stems of moderate height. 
Leaves lanceolate or elliptic. Inflorescence a terminal capit- 
ulum. Bracts large, ovate, persistent. Bracteole utricular 
with 8 acute lobes, ciliate at the tip, the nerves or bracts 
aud bracteoles anastomosing. Calyx tubular, trifid. Corolla 
tube longer, fleshy, lobes thin, rounded. Lip fleshy, adnate 
to the stamen near the anther, quite entire or bifid, short. 
Staminodes none. Stamen filament broad, linear. Anther 
cells linear, pubescent, crests small or none. Style short, slen- 
der, filiform. Capsule subglobose, terminated by the calyx 
tube, few seeded. 
Philippines, endemic. 
Lip bifid. 
1. E. bifida. 
Lip entire. ode d 
1. Elmeria béfida Ridl. n. sp. Hornstedtia paradora Ridl. —— 
in Govt. Lab. Publ. 35; 85, 1905. 
