98 SOME NEW EASTERN GINGERS. 



The bracts which are ribbed and pubescent, resemble those of 

 Alpinia involucrata on a small scale. The specimens are all in 

 fruit. There are two undescribed species belonging to this sec- 

 tion in Schumann's paper from Celebes. 



.4 (Hellenia) Celebica n. sp. A herb more than 18 inches 

 tall with glabrous very long pointed lanceolate leaves, 8 inches 

 long 1 J inch wide, petiole terete striolate graceful one inch long 

 ochrea oblong truncate. Panicle graceful erect branches short 

 many flowered five inches long. Bracts caducous. Flowers 1^ 

 inch long. Calyx tubular truncate J inch long. Corolla tube 

 twice as long, lobes oblong obtuse \ inch long. Lip narrow 

 shorter than the corolla, deeply bifid, lobes spathulate emarginate. 

 Staminodes narrow subulate. Stamen with a rather long fila- 

 ment, another oblong not crested. Style graceful. 



Celebes. 



Allied to A Fraserkma of Borneo, but remarkable for its 

 very deeply cleft lip. 



Amomvm terminate n. sp. Stems crowded slender about 2 

 feet tall, or much taller £ inch through. Leaves dark green, 

 elliptic lanceolate acuminate thinly coriaceous pale beneath gla- 

 brous 7 inches long, 2 inches wide, petiole very short, ocrea £ 

 inch long rounded. Spike terminal or basal cylindric i inches 

 long f inch through. Bracts ovate obtuse margins hairy J inch 

 long 1 ^ inch wide red. Bracteole \ inch long oblong obtuse 

 pink. Flowers in pairs. Calyx tubular dilated upwards trifid 

 pink | inch long. Corolla tube one inch long slender white, 

 lobes lanceolate acute -J inch long. Lip three lobed, two lateral 

 lobes shorter curved outwards, acute, median obovate obscure- 

 ly lobed, -J inch long. Anther with a broad connective rounded 

 crenulate. 



Bismarck Archipelago (Micholitz.) Flowered in the Botan- 

 ic Gardens, Singapore, Feb. 1900. 



The habit of this plant and its red bracts cause it to resem- 

 ble some species of Zingiber, but it has not the long anther beak 

 of that genus. It is abnormal among Amomums in having the 

 spike terminal, but it also is said to produce basal spikes from 

 the rhizome. It is indeed difficult to refer it to any genus but. I 

 am "unwilling to make a distinct genus for it alone. In some re- 

 spects it may be classed with an ornamental plant known as Cestui? 



