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Flowers "yellow." Bracts oblong, apex trifid, lobes rounded, minutely 

 scabrid, one-fourth inch long. Calyx spathaceous, trifid, lobes rounded, one- 

 fourth inch long, haiiy, as long as the corolla tube. Corolla lobes oblong, 

 three-fourths inch long, blunt, silky hairy. Lip an inch long, yellow, spotted 

 and streaked with purple, tip prolonged, bilobed. Fruit globose, three- 

 fourths inch long, pale, covered with long hairs. 



Lamao River, Province of Bataan, Luzon (144 Barnes), January, 1904; 

 (120.3 Borden), June, 1904. Sablan, Province of Benguet, Luzon (G0S9 

 Elmer), April, 1904. 



This species differs from wliat I take to bo Alpinia Haenkci in its much 

 smaller flowers, narrower leaves, smaller bract and .'Mobed calyx. 



Alpinia sp. 



Leaves broad, blade oblong, glabrous above, finely pubescent beneath, 18 

 inches long, 5 inches across, petiole 3 inches. Panicle stout, hairy, peduncle 

 3 inches long, infrutescence 8 inches. Fruit globose, three-fourths of an 

 inch long, sparsely hairy, on pedicels half inch long. Seeds numerous, pale, 

 angled. 



Davao, Mindanao (417 Copeland). Growing in a damp thicket, 7 feet 

 high, in fruit only, the material insufficient for definite identification. 

 Alpinia (Hellenia) pubiflora Presl. 



Mount Santo Tomas, Province of Benguet, Luzon (6268 Elmer) ; (.Juimaras 

 Island (34 Ritchie) ; Davao, Mindanao (319 Copeland). 



This appears to be A. pubiflora, but 1 liave found no trace of any anther 

 crest. 

 Alpinia brevilabris Presl. 



Lamao River, Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon (58 Whit- 

 ford) ; 2 to 3 m. higli, in river bottom; also No. 239 Whitford, same locality, 

 at altitudes of from 1,800 to 2,700 feet. Island of Masbate (1703 Clark). 

 Schumann does not mention in his description of this species that the leaves 

 are armed with minute thorn-like processes near the tip. 

 Alpinia (Hellenia) sp. 



Lamao River, Mount ]Mariveles, Province of Bataan. Luzon (1202 Bor- 

 den); Atimonan, Province of Tayabas, Luzon (655 Whitford). Six feet 

 high, along streams at an altitude of 250 feet. Fruit yellowish brown. 

 These are in fruit onlv and mav be A. brevilabris Presl. 



