about the derivance of the stock. Gagnepain's excellent description was 

 published under a new name Arno mum macropodum, in Bull. 1904, (450). 

 He was urged to propose a new name having compared his species to the 

 description of Hornstedtia elongata K. SCH., in Pflanzenreich and finding 

 some important differences between them. This however was a consequence 

 of the fact that K. SCHUMANN had drawn his description from a specimen 

 not of this species but belonging to Amomum maximum BL, a very common 

 Javan culture plant called hangassan (name cited by K, SCHUMANN). Pro- 

 bably he recieved this wrongly labelled specimen from Leyde; and took" it 

 for the right one, though an original specimen was sent him about the same 

 time from Buitenzorg. How this be, Amomum elongatum K, SCH. (afterwards 

 H. elongata K. SCH.)and A. macropodum are identical and so the first name 

 has the priority. T. et B. distinguish a variety albescens (cult. H. B. XI 42) 

 from which some (or all?) of the materials sent to GAGNEPAIN issued, and 

 a var. coccinea, which has died out before 1904. The writer never saw it. 

 I wonder why GAGNEPAIN professed the flowers to be red (I.e. 451). 



As said, the original stock, the flowers of which have been described 

 by GAGNEPAIN is still existing in Buitenzorg. so the writer was able to 

 make a study on living flowers of the interesting teratological appearance 

 in the ovaria of this species, discovered by GAGNEPAIN and to be defined 

 as a „pistillum intra pistillum" in otherwise perfectly normal flowers. He 

 describes it as follows: „an included villous style terminated by an entire 

 stigmatical lamel, contourned and replied on itself several times, attaining, 

 being expanded, about 20 mm." 



I examined several spikes of the plant and in all of them I met with 

 it in the large majbrity of the flowers, only a few flowers in each spike 

 were found without it, Î therefore am able to add a few particularities to 

 the description quoted. 



The ovary in the normal flowers is completely three-celled, the septs 

 meeting in the centrum and there connected into a solid fleshy axis; from 

 which a double series of placental-branches projects into the cells bearing 

 each a large number of ovules. Transversal sections through the abnormal 

 ovary on different heigth showed that in the upperhalf of the ovary the 

 central axis is more or less detached from the inner edge of the cells 

 and on a certain point forming a loop, forces itself between two septs 

 and descends within a cell to the bottom of it; there it makes a second 

 loop, ascends to the top of the cell where it is recurved again and ter- 

 minates in a kind of stigma about halfway the cell. 



The length of the organ is. expanded, about 30 mm., it is commonly 

 folded up twice with two loops at one and one loop at the other end. 

 It is commonly quite solid, no trace of a style-canal, inflated above and 

 crowned by an obtrigonous flat membranous lamel, or sometimes by an 

 open membranous ciliate cup. In vivo it is white, the stigmal lamell pink, 

 the whole organ is hirsute. 



I examined several fruiting spikes, in one of which eight young fruits 

 were developped, the other flowers being obliterated, and found in four 



