Aoqpst 25, 1915] 



NoTKS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ZlNGIB JRACEAK 



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tude on the Talon side of the mountain range. The native 

 or Bagobo name is "Otin-otin". 



Alpinia romblonensis Elm. n. Bp. 



Rather dense tussocks; stems 2 m long, 1.25 cm thick, 

 bulbose at the base, bracteate clear to tbe base, connected 

 with thick horizontally rebranched roots. Blades alternate 

 5 to 8 cm apart, the lower ones more scattering and much 

 reduced, horizontally spreading, very deep shining green 

 on tbe upper nearly flat surface, the twisted and usually 

 recurved tips setaceously acuminate, the margins undulate 

 and reddish brown, sessile, obtusely rounded at the base, 

 curing grayish on both sides, ovately oblong, the larger 

 blades 2 dm long by 5 cm wide below the middle; mid- 

 rib pronounced beneath and grooved on the upper side 

 toward the base; sheath overlapping, well separated toward 

 the throat, obscurely striate, the thin margins stramineus; 

 ligule auriculately truncate, only a few mm long, reddish 

 brown, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, spicate, pendulous 

 though the odorless flowering tip ascending, 1.5 dm long in- 

 cluding the stalk; peduncle 7 cm long, terete, green, glabrous, 

 subtended by an oblong leaf-like sheath; rachis as long or 

 even twice as long, greenish, glabrous, angular, drying 

 blackish brown; pedicels varying from 1 to 5 mm long 

 from the flowering to the fruiting state, ascending, disk- 

 like at the distal end, divaricate; exterior of the small ovary 

 glabrous; calyx yellowish green, glabrous, 12 mm long, 

 broadest across the bilobed apex; corolla dull creamy yel- 

 low, glabrous, the thick tube 1.25 cm long; the outer 3 

 lobes oblong, 1 cm long, with incurved obtuse tips, the up- 

 per one erect and broader, the lateral ones reflexed, all 

 glabrous, the inner single lobe thicker and longitudinally 

 nerved; anther sessile, curved, nearly 6 mm long, with a 

 thick broad connective which is truncate at the apex, dark 

 reddish brown when dry; anther cells tapering toward 

 both ends, yellow, longitudinally dehiscent; staminodes 

 apiculate; stamineal tube hairy on the inside above the 

 middle; thread-like style sparsely hairy, bearing an exerted 

 obconic stigma; ovary 2.5 mm long, almost as thick, glabra te, 



