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Leaves 9 (or more), lanceolate, membranaceous, about 20 cm 
long, 3 to 3.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the slender, 
caudate-acuminate apex and to the acute base; sheaths rather 
loose or slightly inflated above, rather prominently ciliate-hirsute ; 
petioles none or up to 5 mm in length. Spikes in the uppermost 
sheath, more or less included, short, few-flowered, only one or 
two flowers opening at a time, the maximum number apparently 
4 or 5 in each spike, the bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about 
2 mm long, 5 mm wide, hirsute. Calyx cylindric, about 12 mm 
long, punctate-glandular, as are the other parts of the flower, 
hirsute, very broadly and shortly 3-toothed. Corolla-tube 
slender, slightly enlarged upward, 16 mm long, sparingly hirsute, 
the lobes unequal, the upper one about 11 mm long, 4 mm wide 
in the flattened portion, slenderly 9-nerved, the apical 3 mm a 
cylindric, obtuse hood, the two lateral ones oblong, 7 mm long, 
3 mm wide, 5-nerved, slightly cucullate at the apex; staminodes 
slender, lateral, attached to the margins of the lip near its base, 
about 2 mm long, 0.6 mm wide; lip not seen. Filament flat, 
glandular-punctate, 5 to 6 mm long, about 1 mm wide; anther- 
cells parallel, 3 mm long, the connective appendiculate, the ap- 
pendage ovate, obtuse, more or less inflexed or curled when 
dry. Ovary villous, 3-celled, the cells with few axile ovules; 
style slender; stigma obconic, ciliate. Fruit not seen. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Dahican River back of San Antonio, Bur. 
Sci. H952 Ramos, June, 1912, in forests, flowers white. 
The second species of the genus to be found in the Philippines, the only- 
other one, K. galanga L., manifestly an introduced plant in the Archipelago. 
Kaempferia philippinensis Merr. manifestly belongs in the section Mono- 
lophus, and is very distinct from the other known species, although probably 
as closely allied to the Bornean K. gracillima K. Schum. as to any other 
species. The lip on the flowers available for study has been destroyed, and 
hence cannot be described until the plant is again collected. 
FAGACEAE 
QUERCUS Linnaeus 
QUERCUS ROBINSONII sp. nov. § Cyclobalanus. 
Arbor circiter 20 m alta, subtus foliis ramulisque dense ferru- 
gineo-furfuraceis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, 
coriaceis, integris, usque ad 12 cm longis, basi acutis, apice 
tenuiter subcaudato-acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, pro- 
minentibus; glandibus late ovoideis, glabris, circiter 1.3 cm longis 
latisque, apiculatis, cupulis circiter 8 mm altis, 1.6 cm diametro, 
ferrugineo-pubescentibus, truncatis, laminis numerosis, indis- 
tinctis, denticulis numerosis. 
