212 ME. H. N. EIDLEY ON PLANTS 



longiore cucullato et corniciilato. Lahellum brevius, obovatum, bilobum, lobis 

 brevibus rotundatis. Stamen brevius, filamento gracili piano, anthera brevi 

 oblonga, loculis obtusis, appendice nullo. Stylus gracilis, stigmate minimo. 

 Stylodia pulviniformia. 

 Camps VI a, VI h, VI c, 3100 to 5500 ft. 



Tbis, at least wben dry, curiously resembles a Cordylhie. Tbe calyx (apparently 

 rose-pink) separates from tbe ovary. Tbe corolla, wbicb appears to bave been wbite 

 or rosy-wbite, bas a I'atber long slender tube and short lobes. Tbe wbole plant is 

 glabrous. 



Alpinia himantoglossa, Ptidl., sp. nov. 



Folia oblonga, apice augustata, acuminata, acuta, basi cuneata, berbacea, superne 

 glabra, sul)tus moUiter velutinosa, 50 cm. longa, 9 cm. lata, petiolis longis graci- 

 libus, ligula lanceolata obtusa apice birta 1-7 cm. longa, vagina fere glabra. 

 Panicula 7-8 cm. longa, pedunculo 10 cm. longo suffulta, e capitv;lis 3 subsessilibus 

 remotis oblanceolatis basi angustatis 3-4 cm. longis composita, rbacbi lanuginosa. 

 Bractece tenues, caduca?, oblongoe, mucrone 3 cm. longo, glabrae, 7'5-9 cm. longse 

 vel (superiores) minores. Bractece Jlorales ovatse, involutse, breviter mucronatse, 

 8-10 mm. longse, dense sericeo-birtse. Flores parvi. Calyx tubo brevi 1 cm. 

 longo glabro, lobis lanceolatis corniculatis ad basin birtis. Corolla tubo calyce 

 sequilongo, lobo postico lanceolate oblongo longe coi'niculato et cucullato 8 mm. 

 longo in dorso parce hirto, latei'alibus lanceolatis obtusis. Lahellum lineare, 

 angustum, carnosum, truncatum, stamen superans. Stamen filamento lineari 

 oblongo ; antberfe loculis ellipticis oblougis dorso birtis, appendice nullo. Stylus 

 quam stamen longior. Stir/ma ovoideum, in medio fovea transverso notatum. 

 Camp VI b, 3900 ft. 



Tbis plant resembles in tbe form of tbe flower to some extent an EriolopJia, but 

 tbere is no distinct crest to tbe stamen, tbe connective is very slightly prolonged beyond 

 the loculi in two lobes and is hairy, as is the back of tbe anther. The lip has the 

 peculiar narrow truncate form of tbat genus, and the style is long with a curious 

 club-shaped stigma of which the stigmatic cleft is well below the apex of the stigma. 



Alpinia tephkochlamys, K. Sebum. & Lauterb. in Engl. Bot. Jabrb. xxvii. (1899) 

 277 ; Fl. Deutsch. Schutzg. Siidsee, 226 ; in Engl. Pflauzenreich, H. 20, p. 322. 

 Camps VI a and VI b, 3100 to 3900 ft. 



Var. aspericatjlis, K. Sebum. & Lauterb. 1. c. 226. 



Camp I, 500 ft. 



Originally collected in Kaiser Wilhelm's Land by Lauterbach. 



In habit and general form of the flowers this resembles tbe genus Plagiostachys very 

 closely, but the stamen is long with a rather narrow linear filament (Schumann, how- 

 ever, gives it as " filamentum latissimum "), and tbere are no traces of the side lobes, or 

 rather teeth, on tbe base of the lip. The variety aspericaulis is at tirst sight very 

 diS'erent in appeai'ance, the leaf-sheath being transversely barred with undulated 

 thickened corky lines, broken up and running from and over the ribs. These can be 



