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labyrinthoideo-reticiilatae, septis transversim confluentibus minute puberulis, 

 vallis pilis rigidis longiusculis magis minusve dense conspersis, scaberrimae, 

 inprimis prope margines longitudinaliter costulatae. Corollae tubus rubro- 

 aurantiacus, labellum flavum. 



Large herb resembling the type in habit and flowerstructure, but differing 

 by the pubescence of the leaves the reticulation and pubescence of the bracts 

 and the colour of the flower. 



Distribution: 



Java, Mt. Sembung (near Bandong) (Rongga) 1 300 M., (LörZiNg No. 1 252, 

 1257. „Shadowy jungle. Ovary glabrous, calyx 47 mm. long, corolltube 

 90 mm. red-orange, lobes 20 mm, long, the two inf. lobes halfway connate. 

 Labellum yellow, as long the stamen (25 mm.), biauriculate at the base,' 

 embracing the stamen, top rounded. Rhizome supported by long aerial 

 roots, herb 3 M. high"). Mt. Galunggung 1000 M. (DRS. V. LEEUWEN 5 Dec. 

 1918, ,,f lowers orange"). 



Hornstedtia paludosa (Bl.) K. SCH. Pflanzenr. (1904), 200; VALETON 

 (1904) 59; Ic. Bogor. (1905) t. 168- Donacodcs paludosa BL. En. (1827) 

 54.— Elettaria paludosa MlQ. (1859) 604.— Amomum paludosum K. SCH. 

 (1899) 305. 



Distribution. 



Java: Mt. Salak 1650 M. (Backer 9287, 20/8, 13). Josoredja, Pekalongan, 

 1650 M. in sylva juvenili, (BACKER 16222, 17/8, 1914. „Fruit eaten by natives, 

 porcupines and musangs"). Mt. Gede, near Sindanglaja, ravine of the Tji- 

 serua, 1100M. (VALETON in H. Bog.). Krawang (De MONCHY in H. Bog.). 

 Tjinjiruan 1600 M. (Smith & RANT No. 670, in H. Bog.). Rantja walini, 

 1750 M. „forest, socially", (BACKER 12737). Sindoro, 1600 M., in forest. 

 (LÖRZING 739). Nirmala 1500 M. (BACKER 10705,17/22, 1913). 



Hornstedtia paludosa is probably the most common species of Java 

 above 1500 M. and the most variable as to the degree of hairyness. 



In most localities the leaves and ligula are quite glabrous, in some loca- 

 lities however (Mt. - Salak, Mt. Gede) they are fugaciously villous at the lower 

 side with a pubescent costa ligula and vagina. In a third form, cited by 

 BLUME the leaves are glabrous with ciliate edges. 



The vagina is but faintly ribbed, with broad and shallow often incon- 

 spicuous transverse septs, on the touch it is quite soft, not scabrous. The 

 bracts are covered with a white farinose tomentum (of simple hairs) which 

 ceases abruptly a little above the middle, the broad nude tip is dark red. 

 The spike is broadly ovate with a large mouth. The flowers are very like 

 those of //, scyphlfera and H. Pininga. 



At the moment it seems to be endemic in Java. At least I could not 

 recognise it neither among the Malaccan and Bornean species described by 

 RIDLEY, nor among the Sumatran species recently collected by the collector 

 of the Buitenzorg Herb. 



