LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 



EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 

 Vol. VIII. Manila, P. J., May 31, 1919. Art. 119 • u^ 



ZINGIBERACEAE of the SORSOGON PENINSULA 



by 



A. D. E. Elmer 



ADELMERIA Ridl. 



Adelmeria gigantifolium (Elm.) Elm. n. comb. Zingu 

 gigantifolium Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. viii, 2916, 1915. 



Stems nearly 2 cm. thick, 1 to 2 m. high or long, 

 ascending, leaflet bearing from near the base, the basal 

 portion enlarged. Blades alternating every 7 to 10 cm., 

 wider apart and reduced toward the base, the terminal 

 ones narrowest, rigidly coriaceous, margins wavy, tips 

 abruptly recurved, strongly folded at the base, other- 

 wise flat, much lighter green beneath, chiefly horizontal. 

 Heads erect, terminal, solitary, rigid, 7 to 12 cm. long, 

 subtended by a foliaceous bract, entirely ruber to pur- 

 pureus even the young ones, tickest across the middle; 

 the outer bracts rigid, the equally rigid flowers just 

 equalling them and similar in color; the floral bracts 

 hyaline and veined, glabrous, broad and well surrounding 

 the flowers, irregularly toothed at the apex and ciliated 

 along the edges of the teeth, 5 to 8 mm. long, soon 

 becoming shredded; ovary glabrous, subsessile; calyx 1 cm. 

 long, subinflated above the middle, terminated by 2 or 

 3 acute teeth whose tips are usually pubescent, conspi- 

 cuously parallel veined: corolla tube 2.25 cm. long, 

 glabrous, very slender toward the base, gradually thickened 

 toward the lobes; lobe obovately oblong, 1 cm. long, 

 glabrous, gradually tapering toward the base, the sides 

 inflexed, terminated by 2 lateral lobules and a central 

 appendage; terminal lobule divaricate, hyaline, parallel 

 veined and with few cross bars, ovately oblong; the 



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