Acgust 25, 1915] Notes and Dkscriptionr of Zingiberackak 2909 



the basal ones much reduced and ovate, ascending and then 

 recurved, submembranous, lighter green on the finely soft 

 pubescent nether side, slenderly petioled, tips rather abruptly 

 though setaceously acuminate, base obtuse and slightly ine- 

 quilateral; blades 2 to 3 dm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, elongated, 

 drying similarly brown on both sides, nearly flat, the margins 

 appressed yellowish pubescent, glabrous on the upper surface; 

 sheaths becoming well separated from the stems, minutely 

 striate and blackish brown puberulent or pulverulent, the 

 thin edges scarcely ciliate except toward the throat, over- 

 lapping; ligule oblong, either acute or obtusely rounded at 

 the apex, coarsely blackish pulverulent or pubescent along 

 the edges, up to 8 mm long, decurrent along the sheath, glabrous 

 and purplish red on the inner side; petiole varying from 

 2 to 4 cm long, the basal foliaceous blades subsessile, striate 

 beneath, deeply and narrowly caniculate above, more or less 

 hairy; midrib prominent beneath and lighter brown when dry, 

 caniculate above, puberulent. Flowers not seen. Infrutescenoe 

 upon a 5 cm long stalk arising from the basal portion of 

 the stem; peduncle suberect or curved, 1.25 cm thick with 

 the bracts, glabrous; basal bracts ovate, the upper ones 2 

 cm long and oblong, imbricatingly clasping, chartaceous, 

 glabrous, with numerous longitudinal nerves, apex rounded 

 or subtruncate; pedicels divaricate, 1 cm long, rigid, glabrate 

 or puberulent, subcompressed, at the base subtended by minute 

 bract vestiges; fruit hard, reddish, ascendingly crowded or 

 curved, 2 cm long, almost 1 cm thick toward the base, 

 ovoidly elongated, truncate at the base, gradually tapering 

 to the apex which still bears the lacerated floral parts, 

 conspicuously corrugated longitudinally and carinated in 

 between the 7 to 9 prominent corrugated and irregularly 

 toothed wings, glabrate when old though apparently some- 

 what hairy in the earlier state, 3-celled; seeds several in 

 each cell, conglomerated and attached to the central portion 

 of the intercepting thin partitions, irregularly round, 2 mm 

 across, bright yellow. 



Type specimen number 11130, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

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



Found in very moist humus covered fertile soil bearing 

 a mixture of hardwood and bamboo forests at 1500 feet alti- 



