[ay 31, 1919] 



ZlNQIBERACEAE OF THE SoRSOOON PENINSULA 



2983 



the top, usually puberulent toward the distal end; seeds 

 numurous, angular, obscurely pitted. 



Type specimen numbers 16263 aud 16832, A. D. E. El- 

 mer, Irosin (Mt. Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, Luzon, 

 June and August respectively, 1916. 



Both of these numbers were found in moist compact 

 and well drained ground of open woods along ridges 

 at 1250 feet altitude. The fresh fruits reminded me of 

 wild strawberries. 



No doubt nearest to Hornstedtia microcheila Ridl, but 

 our leaflets average larger and curing grayish green; 

 inflorescence nearly glabrous or at least nowhere so den- 

 sely matted as on Ridley's species, whose persistent calyx 

 base in the young fruit is densely pubescent and whose 

 teeth are also hairy; lip quite different and sheaths 

 glabrous, not stellately pubescent. By mistake our num- 

 bers were seut out as Hornstedtia luzonensi$ Elm. 



Hornstedtia peninsula Elm. n. sp. 



Scattering clusters. Stem suberect from the base 

 but soon reclining down hill, terete, pale green, 1.25 cm. 

 thick toward the slightly enlarged base, 1.5 to 2.5 in. 

 long, leaf bearing from the middle. Rhizome slender, 

 branched occasionally, terete, 1.25 cm. thick, pale green 

 except the brown scales, long; roots wiry, brown. Leaflets 

 alteruatingly scattering, descending, recurved at the tips, 

 deeply folded, very dark green above, paler beneath, 

 subcoriaceous, much scattering and bract-like toward the 

 base, the hairless margins more or less wavy, glabrous, 

 sessile, curing unequally brown on the sides, linear, 3 

 cm. long more or less, 1.75 cm. wide, conduplicately 

 compressed, usually somewhat curved, very slenderly taper- 

 ing towards the flagellately pointed apex, base attenuate; 

 midrib straw brown, bold beneath, sunken above, gla- 

 brous, striate yet smooth; lateral nerves nearly parallel, 

 more evident on the nether side; sheaths compressed and 

 overlapping, pale brown or stramineus, smooth, occasion- 

 ally subglaucous, carinate, minutely purplish spotted 

 or obscurely pustulate on the inner side, the side toward 

 the edges quite thin; ligule very rigid, erect, interaxillary, 

 about 5 mm. long, deep purplish brown, obtusely rounded, 

 in the dry state subglaucous. Peduncles slender and 

 very pale green, alteruatingly scattered along the rhi- 

 zomes, ascend ingly curved, 3 to 5 cm. long or longer, 

 imbricately bracteate; bracts board and clasping at the 

 base, membranous, much shorter toward the base, dirty 

 yellowish, glabrate, obtuse or becoming irregularly cut 



