Aogdst 25, 1915] Notes and Descriptions of Zingiberacba* 2887 



Alpinia foxworthyi Ridl. 



Field-note: — Dense tufts in compact black soil and with 

 a gravelly subsoil in open grass lands interspersed with 

 shrubs at 250 feet, and usually along dry stream depressions; 

 sterns erect, strict, terete, glaucous green, less than 5 inch 

 thick, 3 feet high yet both higher and lower, the upper one 

 third leaf bearing; leaves ascending, coriaceous, strongly 

 folded upon the upper side, slightly paler beneath; inflo- 

 rescence erect, terminal, densely flowered, the young rachis, 

 pedicels and ovaries citrineus, the peduncle and old ovary 

 or young fruit turning green, otherwise the odorless flowers 

 stramineus except for the pale red or roseus streaks along 

 the upper side of the inner lower lip; fruit suhglobose or 

 elongated, always less than 0.5 inch long, black when ma- 

 ture on the plant, soft and mealy, with 4 castaneus an- 

 gular seeds. 



Represented by number 12930, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 

 (Mt Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 



Alpinia rufa (Presl) K. Schum. 



Field-note: — Small delicate tufts in rich moist humus 

 covered soil of a densely forested ridge at 3750 feet, on 

 the Talon side of the mountain range; stems few to sever- 

 al, ascending, recurved toward the top, terete, green, the 

 thickness of an ordinary lead pencil, 3 to 5 feet long; 

 leaves alternatingly scattered, the basal ones reduced and 

 more scattering and extending to below the middle, the 

 largest ones toward the apex, slightly descending and re- 

 curved, tips abruptly so, otherwise flat, membranous, sub- 

 lucid and smooth above, soft pubescent beneath; inflores- 

 cence terminal, ascendingly curved; pedicels divaricate, 

 surrounded by bracts which soon become dry and brown; 

 flowers white, delicate; fruit globose, less than 5 inch in 

 diameter, bright red when ripe; seed black, surrounded by 

 a white mealy coating. "Caucos" in the Bagobo dialect. 



Represented by number 11888, Elmer, Todays (Mt. 

 Apo), Mindanao, September, 1909. 



A very distinct Z'uxgiheraceou* plant in its subalpine 

 habitat throughout mountiinous wooded or forested regions. 



