70 J. Perkins: 



racemes about 6 cm long; bracts about 10, imbricate, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, glabrous, 9 mm long. Flowers solitary, after anthesis sessile 

 on a subglobular cushion; dorsal bracts two -keeled. Ovary silky, 

 S-celled. Sepals lanceolate, 4 mm long. Corolla-tube 3,5 mm long; 

 lobes lanceolate, 5 mm long. Outer staminodia two, resembling the 

 callous -staminode; cucuUate-staminode much shorter, with a lateral 

 subauriculate lobe. (Plate I, fig. A — F.) 



Luzon, no locality given (Haenke, Type, herb. Prag.); Prov. 

 Tayabas near Sampaloc (Warburg no. 12921); Middle Luzon, near 

 Cabunganan (Warburg no. 14068). 



3. Phacelophrynium K. Schum. 



PJianclnphnjnimn K. Schumann in Pflanzenreich, Lief.IV", p. 120 (1902). 

 Phrijnium Blume, Enum. pi. Javae I, p. 37 pro parte minima (1827). 



Sepals equal, subovate, not large. Corolla- tube short, lobes 

 oblong. Outer staminode solitary, petal-like, spatulate or obovate; 

 callous-staminode similar and slightly smaller, with an oblique 

 villous callus; cucullate-staminode shorter, with a broad lateral 

 appendage. Ovary 3-celled, cells often all fertile. Capsule 3-, rarely 

 2-seeded, triangular, three -valved. Seeds triangular, convex on the 

 dorsal side, irregularly grooved, with a deeply two-lobed aril. — 

 Perennial herbs, with basal leaves. Leaves large, petioles long. 

 Inflorescence pauicled, crowded or spreading, interrupted, often 

 formed by fasciculated spikes; bracts distichous. Flowers geminate, 

 pedicellate, common peduncle wanting. 



Species 6, in the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda and Philippine 

 Islands. 



Key to the species. 



A. Panicles more than one, terminal, much 

 elongated. Sepals 4 mm long. Corolla- tube 

 very short; lobes a little longer than the 



calyx. L J^- interrnptum. 



B. Panicles solitary, congested. Sepals 10 mm 



or more long. Corolla longer than the calyx. 2. 7*. hractcosiim. 



1. Pliacelophryiiium iiitciTiiptum (Warb. ms.) K. Schumann. 

 Phacelophrynium interruptum (Warb. ms.) K. Schumann in Pflanzen- 

 reich," Lief. IV, p. 121 (1902). 

 Pliryviym hiirmiphim Warb. in Mons. ined. 



