August 25, 1915] 



Notes and Descriptions of Zingibkraceak 



291. 



strigose, ultimately glabrate, well separated from the stem 

 toward the throat; ligule submembranous, 5 mm long or 

 longer and. more pointed or shorter and obtusely rounded, 

 finely pubescent and ciliate but ultimately glabrate, contin- 

 uous with the sheath margins; midrib pronounced beneath, 

 channelled above, stout at the base. Hetds upon a bracte- 

 ate elongated stalk arising from the root crown, erect, 

 watery, ellipsoid, 7 cm long, 4 cm thick; peduncle 3 to 

 5 dm long, straight and erect, 1.25 cm thick, hard, terete, 

 glabrous, yellowish green; the alternating and imbricating 

 bracts of the same color, 3 to 5 cm long, oblong, the ob- 

 tuse apex curved from the stem, the thin margins purplish 

 spotted, glabrate, linearly oblong; head bracts pale white 

 toward the base, otherwise fiery red, glabrous, 3 to 4 cm 

 long, ovately oblong or elliptic, apex broadly rounded or 

 subtruncate, pulverulent and purplish sprinkled along the 

 thin margins, the lower ones apiculate at the apex; flow- 

 ers usually 2 from the axils of the large bracts; the pair 

 of bracteoles unequal in length, usually toothed, membra- 

 nous and mottled; calyx tube longer, lobed; the lobes un- 

 equal, hyaline and similarly mottled; corolla tube about 

 as long or longer than the calyx tube; lip very saccate 

 and flaccid, hyaline and mottled, obovate, subentire or lobu- 

 late; filament short; anther long and linear, extended into 

 a recurved appendage; style slender, the funnel shaped and 

 ciliate stigma exerted from the tip of the anther spur. Fruit- 

 ing heads longer and thicker; sessile capsules watery white, 

 quite rigid though membranous, 2 cm long, 1.25 cm thick 

 below the middle, splitting from the apex into 3 carpels 

 nearly to the bane, glabrous, striate; seeds attached to a 

 fleshy white central placenta, shining black, short stipitate 

 at the base, 6 mm long, 3 mm thick, ellipsoid, completely 

 surrounded by a white aril which becomes irregularly lacer- 

 ated from the apex toward the base. 



Type specimen numbers Il7o0 in flower and 10645 in 

 fruit, A. D. E. Elm fa (Mt. App), District of Da- 



vao, Mindanao, September and May respectively, 1909. 



The flowering specimen was collected in loamy soil at 

 3750 feet altitude of dense forests south of the Baroring 

 river. The fruiting material vras found under similar con- 



