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is some doubt in ray mind whether the Luzon plant is 

 the same as Dr. Schumann's species, though the characters 

 of the fruit of the Luzon plant has been more recently 

 incorporated with the description of the plant from Jolo. 



Hedychium mindanaense Elm. n. sp. 



Few stemmed epiphytic clusters; stems 1 to 2 m high 

 or long, descendingly spreading, flattened, the basal one third 

 leafless, provided with sheaths. Leaves also descending, 6 to 

 12 cm apart, flat, submembranous, dull green above, much 

 lighter beneath, curing brown, glabrous, margins quite straight, 

 alternate, linearly oblong, the lower ones smaller, 2 to 6 

 dm long, 5 to 9 cm wide across the middle, sharply acute 

 to acuminate at the apex, sessile., gradually narrowed toward 

 the base, midrib conspicuous beneath especially toward the 

 stem; sheath also glabrous, separated toward the throat, 

 erect, membranous, similarly brown in the dry state, 5 to 

 8 cm long. 2 cm wide, oblong and rounded at the apex, 

 the sides decurrent down the sheath margins, glabrous. In- 

 florescence terminal, ereot, 15 cm long, 4 cm thick, sub- 

 terete, formed of rather soft dark green imbricated bracts', 

 basal bracts ovately oblong, acute at the apex, broad and 

 clasping at the base, 7.5 cm long, 3 cm wide below the 

 middle, dull brown when dry, glabrous except the puberulent 

 apex. Flowers 2 from the axils of the bracts, odorless, 

 of unequal age or developement, the one in full anthesis 12 

 to 18 cm long; floral bract 3 to 5 cm long, broad and 

 boot-like toward the base, thinner in texture, gradually taper- 

 ing to the obtuse usually pubescent apex, open along the 

 upper ventral side, oblong, similar in color on the dry speci- 

 mens; calyx green, slender, tubular, 8 cm long, the upper 

 somewhat thickened portion open along the ventral side, apex 

 rounded and finely pubescent,' otherwise glabrous; corolla twice 

 as long, the slender tube yellowish; the outer 3 lobes im- 

 biicately twisted, greenish, glabrous, linear, rotately spreading, 

 ultimately becoming deflexed, 3 to 4 cm long; the inner 3 

 lobes shorter and broader, the lateral pair clawed at the base, 

 conduplicate on the upper side and with wavy or crinkled 

 margins, the lamina portion lance shaped, cremeus, ultimately 



