August 25, 1915] Notes and Descriptions of Zingiberaceae 2805 



margins; ligule short, rounded, hairy especially along the 

 edges, when old becoming nearly glabrate; midrib deeply 

 channelled above and prominently raised beneath, darker 

 brown when dry and glabrous. Inflorescence arising from 

 the rootstocks, upon a 4 to 7 cm long upwardly curved 

 stalk; peduncle soft hairy, clothed with imbricating bracts; 

 the basal short bracts ovate, the upper or longer ones 

 ovately lanceolate, submembranous, pilose along the margins, 

 otherwise sparsely pubescent, longitudinally ridged in the 

 middle region, the marginal sides thinner, reddish streaked 

 and more or less wrinkled; the outer flower subtending 

 bract nearly 4 cm long, 1,5 cm wide below the middle, 

 glabrous on the inner side, conspicuously veined and minutely 

 punctate, otherwise the same as the upper peduncle bract; 

 head elongated, cylindric, varying from 7 to 15 cm long, 

 nearly 5 cm thick, the young ones much shorter and conical; 

 flower erect, 5 cm long, with an evident bad odor; 

 bracteole 2.5 cm long, the basal one half tubular, the upper 

 portion split, membranous, sparsely hairy, more or less inflated, 

 terminated by small points; calyx tubes 2.25 cm long, similarly 

 pilose; its 3 lobes oblong, hyaline and glabrous, yellowish 

 white, 1.25 cm long; lip yellow in the middle and bordered 

 with purple streaks, also membranous, punctate, 1.5 cm long t 

 obovately oblong, entire or with 2 short and broad lateral 

 lobes; filament very short and broad; anther cells 3 mm 

 long, obliquely truncate at the apex, subparallel, base bluntly 

 pointed, the thin connective extended into a hyaline punctate 

 truncate crest 3.5 mm in length, the cells longitudinally 

 dehiscent and glabrate; style minutely punctate along the sides > 

 expanded toward the punctate or pulverulent funnel-shaped 

 stigtna; ovary villous. Young fruit smooth though densely 

 hairy, nearly globose, dirty white, 1 cm in diameter. 



Type specimen number 10822, A. D. E. Elmer, Today a 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1900. 



This plant was collected in damp deeply humus cover- 

 ed ground of the oak forests at 3750 feet altitude south of 

 the Baruring river. "Tanaulak" in Bagobo. 



Allied to Amomum palawanense Elm. and apparently 

 distinct from Amomum deuteramomum K, Schum. 



