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a few adjacent islands, and is characterised by the large, broad and 
thick anther crest, which is also very hairy. In most of the species, 
if not in all, the development of the flower spike is very peculiar. 
The inflorescence, having developed to its full length or nearly so, 
produces spikes containing one or two flowers enclosed in long, stiff 
bracts. These spikes then elongate, as more and more flowers are 
produced, into a long cylindric spike covered with short, hard, 
imbricating bracts. I know of nothing like this form of development 
in any of the Zingiberaceae—H. N. Riviry. 
_ Fra. 1, flower, petals removed ; 2. anther and stigma ; 3, staminodes ; 4, stigma ; 
5, section of ovary; 6, fruit. AW enlarged. 
