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sat densae, cylindricae vel subglobosae. Bracteae pedunculares et externae 

 bif.iriae, coiicavne et subamplexicaules, late ellipticae obtiisae, inucronulatae 

 (itiferioi\'S 20X1-^ ''i vivo), mtMTibraiiaceae, parallèle nervosae glabrae 

 minute ciliolarae. Bracteae interiores (floriferae) lanceolatae (2()X6j meni- 

 branaceae glabrae. Flores plures (saepe 3» eode;n tempore aperti sessiles 

 40 mm long! ; bracteola tubuioso-spathacea 2— 3dentata 15 mm loiiga. 

 Calyx tiibuloSLis breviter Slobus, lobis obloiigis obtusis ciim ovario 22 

 mm longus. CoroUae tubus 22 mm longus. (calycem excedensj, Lobi jineares (iii 

 vivo) iO — 12 mm loiigi labello breviores. Labellum subsaccato-concavum 

 subrotundum trilobum, lobo mediano rotmidato prolongato recuivo, unguicu- 

 iatum, wii^iaculo basi in tuberculutn impar desinente. Staminodia linearia, 

 SLiperne dilatata et bifurcata, tenerrime petaloidea, filamentum fere aequantia- 

 Filameiitum filiforme (6 mm longuni ) anthera fere aequilonga late 

 oblonga. Crista magna tripartita lobis lateralibus mediano haud mino- 

 ribus obovatis. lobo m.èdîano bifido antheram longit. superans. 

 reflexum. Stylus cum stigmate capitato et ovario glabra, Stylodia linearia 

 4 mm ionga truncata. Bacca tarde dehiscens globosa dense echinata aculeis 

 subsetiformibus, 2—3 mm longis. Baccae in sicco 15 mm diam, 6—10 

 confertae, bracteis dejectis, 



Distribution, 



java: Djasinga, Mt. Ratnararang. (leg. Backer.No. 10148; „labellum 

 whste with a yellow spot on the midlobe near the top and red veins"). 



Nusakambangan (V. Hasselt n. ind ..Hellela," non vidi; Scheffer! 

 in Herb. Bog), 



This species seems to be very rare, ïn récent times it was collected only 

 once by Backer in the secundary forest of Djasinga, near Buitenzorg. 



It resembles very much A, gracile Bl., in its habit and by the shape 

 of the flowers (The curions knot on the claw!).ltis however a quite différent 

 species, easily to be identified by the short hirsute ligula and in a dry state 

 glaucous, piiberulous leaves, the thicker and shorter rhizome, the more 

 denseflowered flowerheads the présence of 'staminodes and the long soft 

 spines of the fruit (very short in A. gracile). The fruit has a slight 

 resemblance to the figure of Globba viridis Rumph, VI tab. 61 f 1 and I 

 suppose this to be the species that Blume reduces to Rumpf's „globba 

 crispa rubra" ; (Amomum villosuni LouR.) Most points of Blume's description 

 agrée with mine, only the linear bracts and the absolutely trilobate lipand 

 anthercrest do not, and are probably due to a lapsus calami. On the contrary 

 the species is peculiar by the large produced midlobe of the lip and the 

 very large free sidelobes of the crest. 



Amomum dealbatum Roxe. PL Ind. (1820) 42; MiQ. FI. !. B. Hï 

 (Î855) 599; Amomum maximum RoxB. Bl. Enum. (1827) 50; Val. (1904) 

 19, 25; îc. t. 197 (1906); Pereira Mat. med. (1849) II, 186; K. Schum. 

 (1904) 255. — Hornstedtia elongata K. Sch- (non aliorum) (1904), 225, quoad 

 descriptionera herbae (spécimen auth. Blumeanum). 



