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curved, enveloped with similarly colored and glabrous im- 

 bricating scales of diverse sizes and shapes; bracts or scales 

 toward the base short and scattered, those at the top much 

 longer and well imbricated; branches commonly 3, arising 

 from near the same place toward the distal end of the 

 short thick stem, all densely surrounded at the base by 

 numerous broadly oblong scales, very short and equally pro- 

 vided with imbricating scales especially toward their distal 

 ends which bear either one or more terminal and erect 

 flowers. Flowers odorless, protruding above the humus ground 

 layer; bract subtending the calyx 1.75 cm long, 1.25 cm 

 wide, coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic in outline, chiefly cover- 

 ing over the upper side of the calyx; calyx dark yellow 

 or brownish, succulent, glabrous, subterete, nearly 2.5 cm 

 long, 7.5 mm thick above the middle, a trifle narrower at 

 the base, throat oblique and well slit open from the lower 

 side, the upper end very broadly toothed, lateral teeth smaller, 

 the lower end minutely lobed or not at all, early decaying 

 or withering and forming a slimy dirty watery mass; cor- 

 olla white especially on the interior except a rather con- 

 spicuous blotch in the lower corolla segment, 5 cm long, 5 

 mm thick toward the base, gradually inflated toward the 

 very oblique throat, protruding above the humus covered 

 foliage on the ground, curved above the middle and al- 

 ways facing down hill, fleshy, 1.5 cm across the throat, 

 glabrous; segments about 5, subequal, 2.5 cm across when 

 in full anthesis, rotately spreading, suborbicular; stamens 

 apparently as many as corolla lobes, included; filaments 

 glabrous, ribbon-like, adnate except their distal ends above 

 the middle of the corolla; anther block shaped, 3.5 mm 

 long, subbasifixed; pistil glabrous, nearly 5 cm long; ovary 

 ellipsoidly elongated, upon a concrete base; style subterete, 

 equalling the corolla tube; stigma composed of 2 broad and 

 fleshy lobes; ovules indefinite, dark brown, divided into 2 

 general masses. 



Type specimen number 9510, A. D. E. Elmer, Duma- 

 guete (Cuernos Mts.), Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, 

 March, 1908. 



Collected in rich damp ground among the tussocks of 

 Amomum fusiforme Ridl. along the upper edge of a deep ravine 



