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Lkafi,ets of Pmtrpi'iNE Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 116 



and striate. Inflorescence terminal, erect, 7 to 12 em long 

 including the greenish peduncle, very short branched below 

 the middle; rachis angular and striate, glabrous; pedicels 

 always forked or branched, 5 mm long or less, glabrous in 

 the flowering state, curing black: calyx 6 mm long, 2.25 mm 

 thick, boot-like, glabrous, obscurely 3-lobed; corolla tube 1 

 cm long, expanded toward the distal end, the whole of the 

 corolla glabrous; outer 3 lobes 7 mm long, nearly 3 mm 

 wide, distinctly punctate, with 3 cormivent nerves, oblong, 

 rounded at the infolded apex; the 2 inner segments 4 mm 

 long, 3 mm wide, nerved, bifurcated with subtruncate lobes, 

 constricted for the basal one third; fertile filament 5 mm 

 long, thick, glabrous and grooved upon the upper side, 

 with 2 sterile filaments or stami nodes from its base; anther 

 nearly 3 mm long, relatively broad when spread out, con- 

 nective fleshy, glabrous, nearly black when dry, truncate 

 and slightly emarginate at the apex; cells ventral, light 

 yellow, dehiscent longitudinally; style thread-like, glabrous, 

 bearing a subcapitate nearly glabrous stigma; ovary columnar 

 glabrous, 2 mm long. Fruit globose, shining green, then 

 lemon yellow, finally scarlet red, less than 1 cm in diameter, 

 the 3 cells divided by a thin whitish partition; mature 

 seeds 5 mm across, grayish brown, convex on the back, 

 grooved along the ventral side and excavated at the basal 

 portion, only 1 seed in each cell. 



Type specimen number 12316, A. D. E. Elmer, Magal- 

 lanes (Bit. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 



Found in wet stony ground of woods along the Sinuban 

 creek at 750 feet altitude. The local Visayan called it 

 "Bohonan". 



At first I classified it with Alpinia rosea Elm. The larger 

 leaves, more punctate floral segments, total lack of an 

 anther appendage, three celled and three seeded fruits and 

 the short branched pedicel branches serve as distinguishing 

 characters. 



Alpinia subfusicarpa Elm. n. sp. 



Small 2 to 3-stemmed clusters; stems 3 m high or 

 higher, 2.5 cm thick at the base, green, recurved above 



