August 25, 1915] Notes and Descriptions of Eingiberaceae 2907 



parently divided into 3 oblanceolate segments, whitish toward 

 the base, otherwise bright yellow even so in the bud state, 

 glabrous, delicate; lip erect, much thicker in texture, con- 

 stricted at the base and attached to the broad filament, 

 yellowish and with a blighter yellow fringe, 1.5 cm long, 

 ovately triangular, margins inwardly folded and rugose, 

 conspicuously nerved; filament broad, 5 or more mm long; 

 anther 7.5 mm long, broad, apex with a 0.75 mm long 

 truncate crest, the ventral ly dehiscent cells terminating into 

 short blunt points at the base, creamy yellow; style slender, 

 glabrous, expanded toward the elongated hutton shaped 

 glabrous stigma, both whitish in color. 



Type specimen numbers 11626 and 11759, A. D. E. El- 

 mer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, Sep- 

 tember, 1909. 



Collected in fertile moist soil in open glens near springs 

 or streamlets among the forests at 3500 feet altitude. Both 

 numbers were called by the Bagobos "Dalican." The latter 

 number cited does not agree in every detail with the above 

 description, 



Leptosolena in sign is Ridl. 



This showy snow white flowered Zingiberaceoux plant has 

 since my discovery been collected several time*, but only from 

 the northern type region. In its native subalpine region it 

 thrives in rocky rather open places and it has been success- 

 fully transplanted to Los Bafios by the College of Agriculture 

 where I have seen it in beautiful flower. 



Phaeomeria imperialis Lindl. 



Field note: —Dense tussocks 5 to 12 feet across, in moist 

 or wet fertile soil of damp shaded places or pockets on 

 benches along the Sibulan river at 3000 feet; mature stems 

 at least 20 feet long, recurved above the middle, smooth 

 and green, 3 inches thick toward the base and with a 5 

 inches thick bulb at the base, tightly covered with imbri- 

 cating bracts every foot or so; leaves many, alternating 

 every 6 inches, more scattering and reduced to mere bracts 



