2898 



Leaflets op Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 116 



sheath; the decurrent petiole raised beneath and deeply 

 sunken above, light brown when dry, the midrib very much 

 the same. Inflorescence upon short bracteate branchlets aris- 

 ing from the rhizome, barely above ground; cones elongat- 

 ed, 5 cm long or shorter; peduncle somewhat shorter, curved, 

 terete, striate, brown when dry and nearly glabrous when 

 old; bracts densely imbricate, short and broad, broadly round- 

 ed at the apex, striate, the older ones subglabrate and turn- 

 ing brown, persistent; the upper and floral bracts stramineus, 

 relatively membranous, oblong or oblong lanceolate, 2 to 2.5 

 cm long, sunken along the longitudinal veins, tips usually 

 acute, long hairy along the edges and pubescent on the back, 

 prominently veined and reticulated on the inside; bracteole 

 nearly 2 cm long, clasping at the base, open along the 

 upper side, obtusely pointed or notched, slightly hairy; the 

 bracteole enfolding the calyx, longer and distinctly 3-toothed 

 at the apex, otherwise tubularly inflated, stramineus, mem- 

 branous and more or less hairy; calyx tube 2 cm long, 

 appressed pilose; its 3 lobes oblong, subequal, 1 cm long, 

 rounded at the apex, subhyaline, glabrous, cremeus; lip 

 white except the deep yellow middle portion and the thickened 

 rugose margins which are purplish lined, obovately oblong, 

 1.5 cm long, glabrous, edges inwardly folded; fertile fila- 

 ment 5 mm long, broad* and glabrous; anther 4 mm long and 

 fully as wide across the top, the punctate and yellowish 

 connective broad and terminating into an unequal 3-lobulate 

 crest; cells divergent from the base, glabrous as is also the 

 crested connective, pointed at the base, dehiscent on the 

 ventral side below the middle; ovary pilose. Fruits yellow- 

 ish gray, triangularly globose, broadly rounded at both ends, 

 terminated at the apex by the short calyx remnant, longi- 

 tudinally striate, appressed pilose, containing several trique- 

 trous blackish brown seeds covered with a grayish membrane. 



Type specimen number 12795, A. D. R. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princess (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Found in good soil among open thickets of woods along 

 creek bottom at 250 feet altitude. 



Apparently related to Amomum loheri K. S-hum. 



