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corulla-lobes and about 2^ cm. long, sessile, oblong-subspathulate, nearly 

 1 cm. wide at the middle, cut down to the middle into 2 oblong and 

 obtU!-e-tipped 2-lobult'S with a ch^se sinus, glabrous, membranaceous, but 

 thicker in ciMitre, furnished with sublunate decurrent minutely pubescent 

 longitudinal 2 lamelljc at the base ; lateral lobes minute, deltoid, obtuse, 

 about 1 mm. long. Stamen lower than the lip, but exceeding the corolla- 

 lobes ; filament flattened, hnear, glabrou-^, 9 mm. long ; anther relatively 

 large, oval, 9 mm. long, 6i mm. broad ; the connective broad, 2-cleft 

 above into acutish-obtuse- tipped lobes, minutely puberulent ; anther-cells 

 linear, shorter than the connective, thickly walled ; rudimentary stamens 

 2, small, enclosed within the base of the corolla-tube, erect, oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, compressed, glabrous, about ?>\ mm, long. Style a little exceeding 

 the stamen, filiform, glabrous ; stigma shortly subinfundibuliform with a 

 transverse mouth, thicker at the one side, sub-ciliated-edged. Ovary 

 obovato-rounded, softly pubescent, 4-5 mm. long. 



Hah. IsL. BoNiN [Munin] (Herb. ! Yoshio Tanaka). 



Alpinia (Autalpinia) chinensis (Koen.) Rose, in Trans. Linn. S;x;. 

 VIII. (1807) p. 346; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 349; Benth et Hook, fil Gen. 

 PI. III. p. 648 ; Peters, in Engl, et Prantl Nat. Pflanzenf. II. 6, p. 24. 



Languas chinensis Koenig (1783). 



Ileritiera chinensis Retz. (1791). 



IJellenia chinensis Willd. Sp. PL I. (1797) p. 5; Pers. Syn. PI. I. 

 (1805) p. 2; Rcem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. I. (1817) p. 23; Spreng. Syst. 

 Veg. I. (1825) p. 14. 



Gulavya minor Riamph. 



Maranta Galanga /3. Lam. Diet. Enc. method. II. (1790) p. 587. 



Nora. Jap. Ao-no-kiimataJceran (green-sheathed Alpinia). 



Icon. Iwasaki's Honzo-Dzufu, X. fol. 3 verso-4 rect(X 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Isl. Kashiwa-zima (T. 3Ialdno\ Sept. 1881, Oct. 

 29, 1885); Prov. Idzu : Mt. Higashi-yama in Isl. Hachidyo-zima {S. Okubol 

 herb. Sc Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, May 12, 1887); RyOkyO: Kunchan in 

 Isl. Okinawa (J. Matsumura ! herb. ibid. April 1897) ; Prov. Musashi : 

 Tokyo, cult, from Amami Oshima ('/'. Maldno\ August 19, 1895). 



Remarkable for having the slenderly linear lateral staraiuode-lobe^i 

 turned towards the stamens and horizontally placed beyond them. 



Alpinia (Autalpinia) boninsimensis Makino sp. nov. 



Like A. chinensis Rose, but peduncle simply or dichotomously pediceled ; 



