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and setulose. Corolla tube trumpet-shaped, pubescent, lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 rounded, one-half inch long. Staminodes very short, subulate. Lip obovate. 



1 inch long, wide, central bar elevate papillose. Anther oblong, setose on 

 the edges. Connective trilobed, upper lobe rounded, lateral lobes large, 

 recurved, broad, oblong, obtuse. Filament broadly linear, thin. Style very 

 slender; stigma capitate. 



Baguio, Province of Benguet, Luzon (G284 Elmer). "Flowers yellowish, 

 sepals 3, petals 2, reddish spotted and yellow on the middle inside." Davao. 

 Mindanao (843 Copeland). 



Allied to A. flavum Ridl. I have little doubt that the Davao plant, also 

 leafless, is the same as the Benguet plant. It has unripe fruit, showing 

 signs of stout processes covering them. 

 Amotnum trilobum Ridley, n. sp. 



Rhizome slender, long, creeping, covered with loose sheaths half an inch 

 long. Stems 4 to 7 feet tall. Leaves narrow lanceolate, acuminate caudate, 

 9 inches long, an inch wide, glabrous, closely ribbed, narrowed at the base 

 into a petiole one-fourth of an inch long; sheath narrow, edge and short 

 bifid ligule silky pubescent. Inflorescence obconic, three-fourths of an inch 

 long on a short (half inch) peduncle. Bracts ovate, obtuse, ribbed, glabrous. 

 Calyx tubular, tube as long as the corolla tube, lobes linear oblong, obtuse, 

 half an inch long, 3-nerved. Staminodes linear, obtuse, fleshy, nearly as 

 long as the filaments. Lip obovate, rounded, three-eighths of an inch long, 

 three-fourths inch wide, white with a yellow central bar, tip undulate, 

 3-lobed, the side lobes rounded, midlobe bifid, narrow. Filament linear, 

 fleshy, grooved; anther linear, glabrous, the crest with two lateral fleshy 

 linear subacute curved arms from the side, and a thin, flat, oblong, quadrate, 

 median lobe, obscurely bilobed in the center. 



Mount Arayat, Province of Pampanga, Luzon (67 F. H. Bolster), ilay, 

 1905. 



Closely allied to A. elegans Ridl., but diff"ers in its quite glabrous leaves 

 and bracts, larger fleshy staminodes, and trilobed lip. 

 Plagiostachys, sp.? 



Province of Benguet, Luzon (947 Barnes). Plant 2.5 m. high, growing 

 at an altitude of 1,600 m. 



This is in fruit only. It appears to be a species of Plarfiostachi/s, of 

 which genus none are recorded from the Philippines. 

 Hornstedtia (Nicolaia) paradoxa Ridley, n. sp. 



Plant 10 fwt high. Leaf narrow, lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 

 gabrous, 16 inches long, 1 inch wide, subcoriaceous. Ligule entire, trvui- 

 cate. Flowering stem leafy, 3 feet tall, rather slender. Capitulum globose, 



2 inches across, purple-red. Bracts 1 inch long, oblong ovate, obtuse, 

 margins hairy. Bracteole oblong, rounded, edges hairy. Inner bracteole 

 oblong, thinner, glabrous. Calyx tubular, spathaceous, thin, glabrous, lobes 

 3, acuminate. Corolla tube half as long again as the lobes which are oblong, 

 obtuse, one-fourth inch long. Lip fleshy (incomplete). Anther oblong, 

 crestless. 



Mount Santo Tonias. Province of Benguet, Luzon (6G29 Elmer). Altitude, 

 5,500 feet. 



