Ma)' 31, 1919] ZlNGIBERACEAE OF THE SORSOGON PfiNINSULA 2977 



long by 1.5 cm. wide toward the base, striate from the 

 middle toward the apex, subclasping the rachis, tapering 

 toward the obtuse point, subhy aline edges ciliate in the 

 early state, papyraceous, imbricated; fruit subglobose, 1.25 

 cm. across when dry, yellowish brown, canescent, ses- 

 sile and irregularly subtended by dry more or less hairy 

 bracts, longitudinally costate, apex of a small pubescent 

 rim. 



Type specimen number 15645, A. D. E. Elmer, Iro- 

 sin (Mb. Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, Luzon, June, 

 1916. 



Collected it in well drained ground of secondary woods 

 or shrubberies. Rare in our locality. 



Apparently related to Amomum dtuteramomum K. Schum. 



COSTUS Linn. 



Costus specioaus (Koenig.) Sm. 



Field-note.— Iu thickets of humid woods at 2000 

 feet altitude and in wet humus covered ground. Stem 

 erect from the base, nearly horizontal toward the top 

 and usually spirally curved, herbaceous and green, te- 

 rete, 3 to 5 feet high; leaves alternating, chiefly toward 

 the top. mostly arranged along the outer side of the 

 stem curve, horizontal or descending, much paler green 

 beneath, entirely glabrous; heads terminal, 2 inches across 

 or smaller, solid; corolla white but yellowish tinged in 

 the throat, odorless, erect from the base but curved 

 toward the wide throat, membranous; stamens cremeus: 

 style similar in color but stigma green; the rigid calyx 

 boot deep red; the young greenish but turning reddish 

 in the mature state; seeds murinus. 



Represented by number 14707, Elmer. Irosin (Mt. 

 Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, Luzon, October, 1915. 



White corollas very showy as well as the wine red 

 fruiting heads. 



CURCUMA Linn. 



Curcuma zeodaeria Rose. 



Represented by number 16738, Elmer. Irosin (Mt. 

 Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, Luzon, July, 1916. 



GLOBBA Linn. 



Globba parviflora Presl 



Pie id note for 15381:— Very common in shady places 



