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giabro apice ciliolato tenuiter 3-4 lobato. Petala 3 a basi usque ad medium con- 

 nata tubum formantia, tubo 8-9 mm. longo 2mm. lato sursurn plus minus latiore, 

 partibus liberis petali postici obovato-oblongis 7 mm. longis 4 mm. latis apice 

 valde concavis cuculliformibus rotuiidatis margine apiceque ciliolatis utraque 

 glabris postice deorsum reflexis, partibus liberis 

 petalorum lateralium eo postico angustioribus 

 oblongis margine interiore recurvis concavis 

 apice acutis glabris. Labellum basi cum tubo 

 petalorum connatum, limbo libero antice refle- 

 xo expanso haud plicato 12 mm. longo 13 mm. 

 lato rotundato apice obtuso brevissirno bilobato 

 vel emarginato margine subintegro vel crenu- 

 lato basi usque 2 mm. contracto giabro tenuis- 

 sime meinbranaceo minute punctate. Stamen 

 singulum, filamento basi cum tubo corollas con- 

 nate, partibus exsertis 13 mm. longis glabris, 

 anthera elliptica 4J mm. louga 2 mm. lata me- 

 dio plicata partem apicalem st} T li amplectanti 

 apice emarginata 2-loculari ; stylo filiformi 

 giabro sec us stamen recurvo apice cupuliforme 

 dilatato, cupula margine ciliolata : glandule 

 ad apicem ovarii 2 semi-teretes. Staminodia 

 2 linearia 3 mm. longa ^ mm. lata deorsum 

 reflexa in exsiccato complanata membranacea. 



Alpinia cJiinensis HAYATA in MATSUM. et 

 HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 423 (non Eosc.) 



HAB. Keluug, leg. U. FAURIE, Mai. 1903. 



Near Alpinia intermedia GAGN., but 

 differs from it by the sessile lips and glabrous anthers. 



Alpinia sp. (Fig. 79-f, g.) Caulis circ. If m. altus erectus rectus glaber. 

 Folia lanceolata circ. 30 cm. longa circ. 5 cm. lata apice acuminatissirna basi 

 attenuata utraque pagiue glabra ad marginem haud hirsuta, ligula membranacea 

 oblonga integra glabra obtusa. Panicula 15 -20 cm. longa cum floribus 2-2^ cm. 



Fig. 79, a, a flower of Al- 

 pinia japonica MiQ.xf; b, a lip 

 of the same, Xf ; c, a flower of 

 Alpinia kelungensia HAYATA, x 2 ; 

 d, a flower of Alpinia obloncjifolia 

 HAYATA, x 2 ; e, a lip of the 

 same, X f ; f , a flower of Alpinia 

 "P- X|; g, a lip of the same, Xf. 



