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Leaflets of Philtppwk Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art 116 



Amomum muricarpum Elm. n. sp. 



Clamps; stems several, ascending, ultimately reclining, 

 terete, 1.75 cm thick at the base, green, glabrous, 3 to 5 

 m long, the basal portion bulbose and red. Leaflets sub- 

 sessile, many, every 7 cm alternating, widely scattering 

 and much reduced toward the base, smaller and more nu- 

 merous toward the apex, coriaceous, only slightly folded on 

 the upper deep green surface, gradually tapering to the 

 acuminate to subcaudate recurved apex, base obtuse, linearly 

 lanceolate, 2 dm long by 7 cm wide below the middle, 

 unequally brown when dry, glabrous; sheaths glabrous ex- 

 cept the minutely ciliate margins toward the throat, grad- 

 ually separated toward the top, the overlapped portion more 

 strongly striate; ligule 3 mm long, very broadly rounded 

 or subtruncate at the apex, glabrous except the margins; 

 midrib yellowish green, entirely glabrous, lighter brown 

 when dry, grooved on the upper side especially toward the 

 base. Inflorescence upon reddish suberect 1 dm long brac- 

 teate slightly pubescent stalks arising from the rootstock; 

 bracts imbricate, the b<\sal ones ovate and 1 cm in length, 

 the upper ones two to three times as long and acute to 

 acuminate, all striate ami sparsely pubescent or glabrate, 

 when old chartaceous; bracts subtending the flowers reddish 

 tipped, 2.5 cm long, submembranous, truncately rounded at 

 the apex, oblong though usually wider above the middle, 

 punctate, strigose on the back especially toward the distal 

 end; bracteole 1.25 cm long, boot-like, divided at the apex 

 into 2 or 3 obtuse segments, pubescent, also submemhra- 

 nous, tips reddish tinged; calyx nearly 4 cm long, the tube 

 glabrous though distinctly reddish brown punctate, termi- 

 nating into 3 acute points; corolla tube as long as the ea- 

 lyx, the lobes at least 2 cm long, yellowish, oblong, rounded 

 at the apex, glabrous, obscurely punctate; the lip more erect 

 and thicker in texture, considerably longer, white and with a 

 bright yellow in the center and streaked from the base with 

 purple spots, broadly obovate and ventrally folded, the broad 

 apical margin occasionally irregularly cut, numerously veined 

 in the middle region; fertile filament 7.5 mm long, tick, glabrous, 



