[ay 31, 1919] 



ZlNGlBBRACEAE OF THE SoRSOGON PENINSULA 



2981 



recurved toward the distal end; leaves alternatingly 

 spreading every 3 to 5 inches, ascending or horizontal, 

 quite rigid, chartaceous. margins coarsely rugose, much 

 paler beneath, nearly flat, only the tips abruptly recurved, 

 scattering and much reduced toward the base; flower clus- 

 ter from the rhizomes, erect, crimson red except the 

 whitish inner bracts which are covered and subtended 

 by dirty yellowish under ground ones, triangularly te- 

 rete, upon 3 to 5 or even 8 inches long rather thin 

 and yellowish brown bracteate stalks arising from the 

 rhizomes some distance from the bulbose base of the 

 stems; fruiting heads subglobose, 2 to 3 inches across, 

 underground, cremeus but with a faint or dull reddish 

 tinge; carpels hard, obovoidly globose, with irregular 

 sides, 1 inch across, the outer side occasionally with 

 blunt excrescences but usually smooth; seeds numerous, 

 blackish brown, with a thin white meat covering, arranged 

 in 3 cells. 



Represented by number 16713, Elmer, Irosin (Mt. 

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



In my last article of this publication the fruit of 

 this species was reported as unknown. Being in a field 

 where many flowering specimens were noticed, I made a 

 special effort to find the fruits also. Mere raking off 

 the humus layer is not sufficient to reveal them. In 

 the present instance, my companion and I pried the 

 plants up by the roots and found the nearly ripe fruit 

 clusters all underground, some of them six inches below 

 the surface of the soil. The flowering clusters were above 

 ground partly covered with a humus layer and some dis- 

 tance from the base of the stems, while the fruiting heads 

 were nearly always found clustered near the stem bases 

 and well below the ground surface. 



Hornstedtia irosinensis Elm. n. sp. 



Perennial herbs. Stems ascending or erect, slightly 

 curved toward the top, less than a meter in length, 

 evenly scattered, terete, as thick as an ordinary lead 

 pencil, green, thickened at the bright red base. Rhizome 

 rigid, horizontal and branched, slender, whitish though 

 covered with reddish bracts, as thick as a slate pencil; 

 roots wiry, yellowish white. Leaves ascending or hori- 

 zontal, much reduced toward the base, submembranous, 

 flat except the wavy margins, tips recurved, slightly 

 paler green beneath, much narrower toward the top. 

 the normal ones linear lanceolate, glabrous above, be- 

 neath puberulent, petioled, edges without hairs, gradually 



