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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



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unequally greenish brown on the two sides, the smaller 

 lanceolate, the larger ones lanceolately oblong, sessile, 

 40 cm. long by 6 to 7 cm. wide across the base or a trifle 

 below it, margins straight, glabrous, less tapering toward 

 the broad base whose margins are recurved at the base; 

 lateral nerves oblique, very numerous, faint; midvein light 

 brown when dry, raised beneath, carinate, sparsely hairy 

 along its sides, sunken on the upper side toward the 

 base; sheath dirty pubescent especially toward the top, 

 easily separated from the stem and overlapping, strongly 

 carinate, margins reddish brown and glabrous on the 

 inner side; ligule composed of 2 blunt projections, ob- 

 tuse or irregularly truncate at the ciliate apex, 5 mm. 

 long, shorter on the smaller blades, chiefly reddish brown. 

 Peduncle 15 to 20 cm. long, 2 cm. thick, terete, greenish, 

 covered with purplish fringed bracts, erect from the 

 rhizomes, few to a cluster; inflorescent head ovoidly 

 ellipsoid, 12 to 20 cm. long by 8 cm. thick; outer bracts 

 water containing, becoming separated as the fruits ma- 

 tare, otherwise closely imbricated, obcuneate, 4 cm. long, 

 fully as wide across the truncate top, one half as wide 

 at the base, the apical portion thickest and rigid, made 

 strong by the much incurved outer or exposed red por- 

 tion, otherwise white; bracteole or inner bracts 3 cm. long 

 or longer, 8 mm. wide across the base or widest por- 

 tion, hyaline and purple spotted along the marginal sides 

 toward the obtuse apex, minutely striate, the sides well 

 imbricate, puberulent on the back toward the finely cil- 

 iate apex, gradually tapering from the base to the 

 apex, oblong; calyx 2 cm. long, tubular, very hyaline, 

 faintly parallel veined, purple spotted toward the trun- 

 cate apex, glabrous, well separated toward the top on 

 the ventral side; corolla tube 3 cm. long, gradually thicken- 

 ed toward the distal end, otherwise slenderly tubular; 

 the 3 outer lobes 1.5 cm. long, finely veined, spotted 

 along the margins and toward the apex, very hyaline; 

 the lateral lobes broadly lanceolate and with acute apices, 

 the middle lobe oblong and with an obtuse apex; lip 

 2 cm. long, the basal one third densely veiny and spot- 

 ted, cuneate; the lamina portion triangular in outline, 

 the base nearly as wide as the whole length, obscu- 

 rely lobulate at the base, subacute at the apex, hya- 

 line, spotted, the margins flaccid, rugulose and usually 

 incurved; free portion of filament short, thin, flat; an- 

 ther 12 mm. long, one fourth as wide, linear, bifid at 

 both ends, glabrous, extended into a long purplish 

 spotted beak; style filiform, glabrous, spotted and 



