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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Akt. 116 



Type specimen number 10546, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 



Gathered from well drained soil of dense woods at 4250 

 feet altitude south of the Sibulan river. The natives or 

 Bagobos called it "Tabak-bukalod" and its seeds are eaten 

 by them. It is neither of the allied species, Amomum 

 warburgii K. Schum. nor Amomum lepicarpum Ridl. 



Qlobba aurea Elm. n. sp. 



Small tufts; stems few, erect, 3 to (5 dm high, densely 

 purplish spotted. Leaves ascending, membranous, much paler 

 green beneath even in the dry state, on an average alternating 

 every 3 cm, lanceolately oblong, at most 2.5 cm wide across 

 the middle or a trifle below it, the lower ones much reduced 

 and even bract-like, 12 cm long, gradually acuminate at the 

 apex, base gradually obtuse, glabrous on both sides or the 

 sunken midvein minutely puberulent, the prominent midrib 

 beneath curing duller brown; sheaths well separated, finely 

 striate, margins toward the throat ciliate, the exposed por- 

 tion purplish spotted or colored, glabrate; ligule auriculately 

 lobed, 2 mm long, ciliate around the subhyaline edges; petiole 

 about as long, relatively wile, puberulent beneath, grooved 

 on the upper side. Spike or spike-like inflorescence terminal, 

 erect, 16 cm long or shorter; peduncle one half as long, very 

 slender, green, glabrous; rachis fluted, also green and glabrous; 

 pedicels similar, divaricate, 5 mm long, usually 2 -flowered, 

 subtended by a 3 mm long oblong yellowish deciduous bract; 

 calyx 4 mm long, yellowish, glabrous, cylindric, 2 mm thick 

 across the 3-lobed and mucronulated apex; corolla deep yellow 

 in bud and in anthesis, the curved part 1 cm long; seg- 

 ments 6 mm long, subequal, oblongish, yellow and hyaline, 

 the lower one almost divided, the lateral ones divaricate, the 

 upper one straight, thicker in texture, ventrally folded, truncate 

 at the apex; the central petal oid portion or staminode exceed- 

 ing the segments, subemarginate at the apex, with a large 

 downwardly curved spur; ribbon-like filament nearly 1.5 cm 

 long, hyaline, glabrous; anther 2 mm long, almost as broad 

 across the middle, basifixed, each cell acute at the base and 

 well separated, subtruncate at the apex, provided with a 



