Marantaccae. 7 1 



Leaves petiolate, with the upper part of petiole 5,5 cm long, 

 flattened, callous, glabrous, lanceolate, shortly acuminate, at the 

 base acute, glabrous on both sides; sheath glabrous, membranaceous. 

 Inflorescence erect, few (3), leafy, interruptedly panicled, with a com- 

 pressed glabrous peduncle reaching a length of 20 cm; internodes about 

 8 cm long; racemes somewhat densely fascicled, about 4, 5 cm long; 

 primary bracts oblong-lanceolate or ovate, about 4 cm long; flowering- 

 bracts about 8, oblong, obtuse, when dried flesh -colored, 1,5 cm 

 long. Flowers geminate, on a pedicel 5 mm long. Bracteoles keeled. 

 Ovary triangularly pear-shaped, 3 -celled, deeply furrowed, glabrous. 

 Sepals ovate -oblong, acuminate, 4 mm long. Corolla-tube scarcely 



2 mm long; lobes oblong, 4 mm long. Outer staminode 3 ram long, 

 callous -stamin ode petal -like, with a villous callus; cucullate -stam- 

 inode and fertile staminode equal. Capsule triangular, 3 -seeded, 

 pale-yellow, 9 ram long, at the top concave. Seed 6 mm long, 

 transversely sulcate, shining, dark chestnut, with a large yellow, 

 shortly two-lobed, pendulous aril. (Plate III, fig. F — 0.) 



Luzon, Prov. Manila on Montalban (Warburg no. 12495, in 

 flower March 1888); North Luzon near Enrile (Warburg no. 12160); 

 Tanay, Prov. Rizal (Merrill no. 2263, in flower May 1903). — Min- 

 danao Island, near Davao on Mt. Dagatpan in a forest (Warburg 

 no. 14585). 



This species resembles in habit Moiiophnjnium fasciculatum 

 (Presl) K. Schum., difters from it entirely, however, in the shape of 

 the flowers and of the inflorescence. 



2. Pliacelophryinuiii bracteosuiu (AVarb.) K. Schum. 

 Phacelophrynium bracieosum (Warb.) K. Schumann in Pflanzenreich, 



Lief. iV, p. 123 (1902). 

 Phnjnium hracteosum Warb. in Mons. 11. ined. 



Leaves oblong, shortly acuminate, at the base acute, on both 

 sides glabrous, about 27 cm long, 11 cm wide, petiolate; petiole 

 reaching 4 cm long, the upper part callous, glabrous, terete; sheath 

 glabrous. Inflorescence formed by 3 — 4 lax lateral or terminal 

 spikes; peduncle reaching 30 cm in length, glabrous, subtending leaf 

 wanting; spikes short; bracts 7 — 8, broad, linear-oblong, coriaceous, 



3 — 4 cm long, pale-yellow. Pairs of flowers 4, sometimes with a 

 rudiment of a fifth pair present, very shortly pedicellate. Ovary 

 brown -villous, 3 -celled. Sepals linear- lanceolate, 10 mm long. 

 Corolla-tube 1,5 cm long, lobes . . , Starainodia . . . Capsule with 



