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qts of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 119 



red except the tubular whitish base and glabrous 

 except at the ovary, otherwise linearly fusiform, slen- 

 derly tapering to the slightly hairy tip or tips, invo- 

 lute; corolla glabrous, the basal one third tubular; lat- 

 eral lobes hyaline, few parallel veined in the middle 

 region, broadly rounded at the apex, basal one third of 

 the lip clawed, the lamina broadly lanceolate or ovately 

 elliptic and with conspicuous veins; filament strap-like, 

 glabrous; anther bifid at both ends, crestless and entire- 

 ly glabrous; style thread-like, smooth; stigma subcom- 

 pressed, obconic; ovary subellipsoid, glabrous except the 

 yellowish fringe of hairs around the top. Carpels 3 to 

 5, erect, 1.25 cm. long, flattened or angular on the 

 inner compressed sides, shining purple above the middle, 

 paler red beneath; seeds yellowish. 



Type specimen number 16926, A. D. E. Elmer, Irosin 

 (Mt. Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, Luzon, August, 

 1916. 



Collected in moist humus covered soil of jungles 

 bordering woods at 1000 feet altitude. 



Foliage distinct from Amomum trilobum Ridl. and from 

 Amomum loheri K. Schifm- Neither is it Amomum war- 

 burgii K. Schum. nor Amomum deuteramomum of the same 

 author. 



Amomum luzonense Elm. a. sp. 



Several stemmed clumps. Stems 1.5 m. high, 1 cm. 

 thick, thickened at the base, terete, glabrate, the basal 

 one third leafless. Blades alternating every 3 to 5 cm,, 

 narrower toward the top, the basal ones broadened and 

 relatively short, the average ones lanceolate, 3 cm. wide 

 across the middle or widest portion, gradually tapering 

 to the sharply acuminate apex, narrowed toward the ses- 

 sile base, curing brown, edges glabrous as well as on 

 both sides, 3 dm. long more or less, submembranous in 

 the dry state; midvein prominent and lighter brown 

 beneath, glabrate, sunken above, obscurely striate; lat- 

 eral nerves strict, parallel, more evident beneath, much 

 ascending; sheath glabrous, overlapping, loosely encircling 

 the stem, carinate, smooth, with thin brown edges; lig- 

 ule 5 mm. long, truncately rounded at the apex, dull 

 brown in the dry state, erect, edges thinner but entire, 

 more or less cross veiny on the outside toward the 

 base, very oblique or unequal on the two sides. In- 

 f ructescence arising from the roostocks; peduncle 5 cm. 

 long, usually curved, somewhat hairy and bract covered; 

 rachis yellowish brown pubescent; outer bracts 3.5 cm. 



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