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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 119 



acute apex, the middle one much longer and usually 

 curved; anther cremeus, 1 cm. long, narrowly elliptic, 

 glabrous, terminated with a long slender recurved mottled 

 beak the tip of which is recurved; style very fine, ex- 

 tended through the anther beak, terminated by an 

 expanded ciliated stigma; ovary glabrous, compressed, 

 having a few yellowish glabrous erect short appendages. 



Represented by numbers 14992 and 14936, Elmer, Iro- 

 sin (Mt. Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, Luzon, Nov- 

 ember, 1915. 



A weak more or less sprawling or reclining species, 

 quite commonly met here in wet earth of deeply shaded 

 ravines or along water courses at 1500 feet altitude. 

 The younger heads are greenish, only the bract margins 

 reddish brown tinged, turning flame red upon maturity. 



Zingiber zerumbet magnum Elm. n. var. 



Dense patches. Stems 1 to 2 m. high, 1.25 cm. 

 thick, dark green, numerous, erect, subterete. Leaves 

 ascending or divaricate, paler beneath, more numerous 

 at the top, reduced and scattered toward the base, the 

 sides pendant, thinly coriaceous, sublucid above, alter- 

 nating every 4 to 6 cm., oblong, curing brown, gla- 

 brous, the edges very faintly brown, gradually and acumi- 

 nately pointed at the apex, cuneate toward the sessile 

 base, margins along the base recurved, oblong to broadly 

 oblanceolate, 20 to 35 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. wide at the 

 middle or a trifle above it; midrib stout especially to- 

 ward the base, paler brown when dry, glabrate beneath, 

 fluted; sheath well separated from the stem toward the 

 throat, otherwise tightly enclosing it, glabrate or only 

 sparsely hairy especially in the region of the ligule, striate, 

 edges thin and hyaline; interaxillary stipule or ligule 

 erect, clasping the stem, smooth and glabrate, hyaline 

 margined, the obtuse apex becoming lacerated, 3 cm- 

 long. Peduncle 20 to 30 cm. long, erect, terete, green, 

 striate, provided with alternating bracts, the upper por 

 tion of the bracts free, hyaline margined, carinate, sub 

 inflated, tightly clasping the peduncle toward the base, 

 glabrate or sparsely hairy, broadly obtuse at the apex. 

 Heads ovoidly ellipsoid, 10 to 15 cm. long, very watery 

 and heavy; outer bracts totally dark green, only the 

 older ones brown margined around the apex, 3.25 cm. 

 long by 2.5 cm. wide across the broadly rounded apex, 

 margins hyaline, apical portion atropurpureus spotted, 

 glabrous, numerously and parallel veined, the inner side 

 purplish striate, obovately oblong, the basal ones usually 



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