X, c. 5 Merrill: Philippine Plants, XII 297 



Leaves 9 (or more), lanceolate, membranaceous, about 20 cm 

 long, 3 to 3.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the slender, 

 caudate-acuminate apex and to the acute base; sheaths rather 

 loose or slightly inflated above, rather prominently ciliate-hirsute ; 

 petioles none or up to 5 mm in length. Spikes in the uppermost 

 sheath, more or less included, short, few-flowered, only one or 

 two flowers opening at a time, the maximum number apparently 

 4 or 5 in each spike, the bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about 



2 mm long, 5 mm wide, hirsute. Calyx cylindric, about 12 mm 

 long, punctate-glandular, as are the other parts of the flower, 

 hirsute, very broadly and shortly 3-toothed. Corolla-tube 

 slender, slightly enlarged upward, 16 mm long, sparingly hirsute, 

 the lobes unequal, the upper one about 11 mm long, 4 mm wide 

 in the flattened portion, slenderly 9-nerved, the apical 3 mm a 

 cylindric, obtuse hood, the two lateral ones oblong, 7 mm long, 



3 mm wide, 5-nerved, slightly cucullate at the apex; staminodes 

 slender, lateral, attached to the margins of the lip near its base, 

 about 2 mm long, 0.6 mm wide; lip not seen. Filament flat, 

 glandular-punctate, 5 to 6 mm long, about 1 mm wide; anther- 

 cells parallel, 3 mm long, the connective appendiculate, the ap- 

 pendage ovate, obtuse, more or less inflexed or curled when 

 dry. Ovary villous, 3-celled, the cells with few axile ovules; 

 style slender; stigma obconic, ciliate. Fruit not seen. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Dahican River back of San Antonio, Bur. 

 Sci. lJt952 Ramos, June, 1912, in forests, flowers white. 



The second species of the genus to be found in the Philippines, the only 

 other one, K. galanga L., manifestly an introduced plant in the Archipelago. 

 Kaempferia philippinensis Merr. manifestly belongs in the section Mono- 

 lophus, and is very distinct from the other known species, although probably 

 as closely allied to the Bornean K. gracillima K. Schum. as to any other 

 species. The lip on the flowers available for study has been destroyed, and 

 hence cannot be described until the plant is again collected. 



FAGACEAE 

 QUE ROUS Linnaeus 

 QUERCUS ROBINSON 1 1 sp. nov. § Cyclobalanus. 



Arbor circiter 20 m alta, subtus foliis ramulisque dense ferru- 

 gineo-f urf uraceis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 coriaceis, integris, usque ad 12 cm longis, basi acutis, apice 

 tenuiter subcaudato-acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, pro- 

 minentibus ; glandibus late ovoideis, glabris, circiter 1.3 cm longis 

 latisque, apiculatis, cupulis circiter 8 mm altis, 1.6 cm diametro, 

 ferrugineo-pubescentibus, truncatis, laminis numerosis, indis- 

 tinctis, denticulis numerosis. 



