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of them the abnormal pistillum which had grown a short time together 

 with the fruit but slowly drying up at the top. The remaining four ones 

 were normal and the axe was solid unto the top. In all of the eight ones 

 the seeds were developped quite normally. 



Afterwards I found the same appearance in spikes of other stocks, 

 and here were several variations on the one described above, . e. g. a 

 very distinct style-canal in one of the specimens. I regret not to be in a 

 position to make an exact study. 



Hornstedtia mollis VaL. Bull. Inst. bot. XX (1903), 59; Icônes pl. 

 (1914) t. 378.— Elettaria mollis Bl. Euum. Pl. j. (1827) 52.; K. SCHUMANN 

 in Pflanzenreich (1904). — ? Donacodes elongata var. coccinea T. et B. Cat. 

 1866, 57 et 380.— (Tab. 10, fig. 11—14). 



Distribution, 



Java: M. Salak, (v. HASSELT, BACKER, V ALETON etc.'. Denu, Patudja, 

 sylva. (Backer No. 9010, Aug. 1913). G. Sunarari, 900—1000 m, (Buiten- 

 borg), (BACKER No 6336, Jan. 1913), Tjidadap, (WiNCKEL, ' „stem ferrugi- 

 neous"). G. Galungung, 1000 m. (v. LEEUWEN, No. 1058, Nov. 1918). Cult. 

 H. Bog. XI B III 48, e monte Karang leg. BACKER. 



Sumatra: Sibolangit, Nafurereservation, 400 M., in thin forest near a 

 rocky slope. (LöRZING No. 5407 11/11 '17. „Sterns and rhizome very hard, . 

 stems about 3 M. long, lank and overhanging"). 



Though on first sight very much resembling one another H. elongata 

 and /7. mollis are perfectly distinguished by the following characters. 

 H. mollis: 



Peduncle: 6—7 mm, thick in the middle, covered with reddish-palegreen 

 rounded, mucronate ciliate bractscales. Stem itself yellowish or darkbrown 

 silky tomentose. 

 H. elongata: 



10—11 mm. thick, with darkgreen very shortly mucronate scales. Stem 

 palebrown tomentose. 

 H. mollis: 



Outer bracts: elliptic-ovate, 7—8, glabrous and smooth, silky only at the 

 • base, darkred (cod. 2) often with marcescent tops. 

 H. elongata: 



ovate-elliptic, greenish (the very outer ones) and brownish-red covered 

 with a lax white feathery tomentum, leaving the red margins free, not 

 marcescent; the interior ones partly red partly pale yellow with thin red 

 stripes very smooth, hyaline and coriaceous and red with a pulverish tomen- 

 tum only near the top. The shape is narrower and longer than at H. mollis. 

 H. mollis: 



Inner (flowering) bracts: Resembling the inner involucral bracts but pale red 

 and hyaline getting narrower and thinner toward the center, the inner- 

 most lanceolate-ovate and white. 

 H. elongata: 



