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Notks and Descriptions of Zingiberaceae 



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single divaricate hyaline spur 2 mm long; the very slender 

 style bearing a minute stigma appearing as a fine hyaline 

 point beyond the anther which is dark yellow. Young fruit 

 angular and rigid. 



Type specimen number 13243, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Prineesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 



Gathered from wet rock crevices upon ledges along the 

 Iwahig river at about 1000 feet altitude. Rare in our lo- 

 cality. 



Not at all Globba ustulata Gagnep. Apparently most close- 

 ly related to our Philippine Globba brevifolia K. Schum. 

 and Globba gracilis of the same author. 



Hedychium philippinense K. Schum. 



Field-note: — Epiphytic herbs, 2 to 3 feet long, with 1 

 to 3 -clustered stems, mostly upon humus beds in the lower 

 forks of trees in woods at 2500 feet; leaves submembranous, 

 paler beneath, when old and dry the edges well curved un- 

 der, the terminal ones largest; infrutescence from 1 to 5 

 capsules, upon a very short terminal stalk; capsule 1.5 inch 

 long, 3-sided, orange yellow when mature, dehiscing from 

 the apex nearly to the base; the carpels thick, recurved, 

 persistent, darker red on the inner surface and splitting off 

 from the central placenta portion; seeds dark red, subtended 

 by a succulent similarly colored fibrillose aril; receptacle or 

 rather the placenta erect. The open capsule with its seeds 

 appears like a conspicuously red colored flower. 



Represented by number 7909, Elmer, Lucban (Mt. Ba- 

 nahao), Luzon, May, 1907. 



Besides the type from the Jolo islands, August Loher 

 collected it in flower at Montalban in 1905. In the her- 

 barium, Bureau of Science, are a half dozen of fruiting 

 specimens more recently collected from southern Luzon and 

 from the Visayan region. On some of these field labels the 

 flowers are described as red though the specimens are only 

 in fruit. Mr. Loher nor Dr. Schumann did not describe the 

 color of the Mower, yet Dr. Ridley uses that character in 

 his key to separate it from the common introduced pure 

 white terrestiial species, Hedychium coronarium Koenig. There 



