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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 116 



truncate at the apex and very obscurely notched. Fruit hard, 

 deep green, 1.5 cm in diameter, globose, glabrous, bearing 

 the persistent ealyx. 



Type specimen number 12050, A. D. E. Elmer, Romblon, 

 March, 1910. 



In gravelly ground along stream banks near the sea. 

 "Tagbag" is the locil Visayan name. This same native 

 name is applied to many other Zingibemceous plants by dif- 

 ferent tribes in the Philippines. 



As near to Alpinia cumingii K. Schum. as to any other 

 Philippine species. 



Alpinia rosea Elm. n. sp. 



Few to several stemmed clusters; stems 6 dm high, 

 terete, dark green, 6 mm thick, ascending, much enlarged 

 at the base; rootstock scale provided. Leaves linearly lan- 

 ceolate, ascending, nearly flat except the recurved tips, 

 coriaceous, very dark green above, much paler beneath* 

 glabrous, alternating every 3 cm, gradually tapering toward 

 both ends, sharply and slenderly acuminate at the apex, 

 base cuneate or obtuse, curing grayish on both sides, lan- 

 ceolate, short petioled, 10 to 18 cm long, 2 cm wide; 

 sheaths overlapping, becoming distantly separated from the 

 stem, minutely striate, glabrous, with thin reddish margins; 

 ligule similar in color, also glabrous, 3 mm long, erect, 

 broadly rounded or notched; petiole about 5 mm long, 

 caniculate, glabrous, light brown when dry as is also the 

 midrib beneath. Inrlorescent spike terminal, ascendingly 

 curved, 6 cm long, the slender peduncle greenish and gla- 

 brous, striate; pedicels whitish, it as well as the angular rachis 

 glabrous, alternatingly scattered, 3 to 4 mm long, unbranehed, 

 subtended by a bract vestige; external view of ovary short 

 ellipsoid, glabrous; calyx 7 mm long, 3 mm thick, trun- 

 cate or obscurely 3 notched, widest across the top, whiter 

 than the pedicels, each of the lobular portions distinctly 

 3-nerved, all of which connive toward the top and termi- 

 nate into a mucronate point; corolla tube slender, glabrous, at 

 least 1.5 cm long, expanded toward the lobed portion, pink 

 n- roseus; outer 3 lobes spreading, sheathing at the base, 5 to 



