160 
RIDLEY. 
globose or oblong, about 1 cm long, glandular-dotted. Seeds numerous, 
covered with a white silky pubescence, and with a finely cut aril at the 
base. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, Cuming 1390: Province of Cavite, Maragon- 
dong, Merrill 1/177 : Province of Bataan, Lamao River, For. Bur. 11/61 Ahern’s 
collector : Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 1110 Ramos: Province of Bulacan, 
For. Bur. 7208 Curran. Samar, Catubig River, Merrill 5207. Mindanao, Lake 
Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1/17: Province of Surigao, Bolster 338: 
District of Zamboanga, Copeland s. n. : District of Davao, Malita, Copeland 662. 
Endemic. 
4. G. brevifolia K. Sebum, in Pflanzenreick 1. c. 145. 
G. parvifolia Presl var. brevifolia K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 27 (1899) 
330. 
A slender plant with stems 10 to 20 cm long. Leaves four or five only, 
sessile or very shortly petioled, lanceolate or suboblong-lanceolate, rather 
long attenuate-acuminate, hardly caudate, the base rounded, sometimes 
subcordate, quite glabrous except for a few scattered hairs especially at 
the tip, 5 to 6 cm long, 1.3 to 2 cm wide; ligule very short, scarcely 
0.5 mm long, ciliolate as is also the sheath. Panicle 4 to 6 cm long, lax. 
Lower bracts minute, scarcely 1 mm long, suborbicular, rounded at the 
tip, the upper ones twice as long, ovate or acuminate, persistent. 
Branches capillary, 1 to 2 cm long, glabrous. Flowers long-pedicelled. 
Braeteoles resembling the bracts, persistent. Ovary ellipsoid, 2 mm long, 
glabrous, smooth. Calyx turbinate, with three obtuse lobes. Corolla 
not described. Anther with a triangular wing on each side. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, near Palauig, ( Warburg 11/066) , in Herb. Berol. 
Endemic. 
5. G. Merrillii Ridl. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1905) 83. 
A rather stout plant with long woolly tufted roots, the stem 60 to 90 
cm tall. Leaves broadly lanceolate, long and very gradually acuminate, 
12 to 20 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, the base rounded, inequilateral ; petiole 
2 to 3 mm long; ligule very short, truncate; all glabrous, except occa- 
sionally the lower leaves which are pubescent at the base. Panicle lax, 
15 cm long, with remote 2 cm long branches. Bracts lanceolate, acute, 
caducous. Flowers white. Calyx-tube cylindric, very shortly and equally 
toothed. Corolla-tube slender, more than twice as long as the calyx, the 
lobes oblong-obovate, glandular-dotted. Staminodes smaller. Lip linear- 
oblong, entire, rounded at the tip, spoon-shaped, short. Filament short 
and broad. Anther elliptic, the spurs elongate, triangular, longer than 
the anther. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Merrill 3869, Whitford 1/81, 
Leiberg 6158, For. Bur. 1598 Borden. 
Endemic. 
