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pilose. Flowers pedicelled, the pedicel 2 mm long. Ovary silky. Calyx 
tubular, 2-lobed, one lobe 2-toothed, minutely pubescent, 2 cm long. 
Corolla-tube hardly longer than the calyx, the lobes 2 cm long. Lip 
obovate, entire, 3 cm long. Staminodes none. Filament linear. Anther- 
cells pubescent. Connective-crest three-lobed. 
Luzon, ( Lolier 675). 
This endemic species, in habit and in many other characters, resembles A. 
trilobum, but differs, according to the description, by its entire lip and the 
absence of staminodes. 
4. A. propi nquum Ridl. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1905) 84. 
Stems stout, about 2 m tall. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
cuspidate, 32 cm long, 8 cm wide, glabrous, drying dark, paler beneath, 
the petiole very short; ligule oblong, truncate, 5 mm long. Capitulum 
obconic, on a 7 cm long peduncle. Floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, pubes- 
cent. Bracteole tubular, 1 cm long, pubescent, trifid, two lobes connate 
nearly to the tip. Calyx-tube 1 cm long, glabrous, trifid, the lobes 
mucronate, keeled, setulose. Corolla-tube trumpet-shaped, pubescent, 
the lobes oblong, obtuse, rounded, 1 cm long, yellow marked with red. 
Lip obovate, 2 cm wide, the central bar elevate-papillose. Anther oblong, 
the edges setose, the crest 3-lobed, upper lobe rounded, the lateral ones 
large, recurved, broadly oblong, obtuse. Filament thin, broadly linear. 
Staminodes very short, subulate. Fruit subglobose or elliptic, red, 
covered with short simple or forked processes. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 6281/, For. Bur. 5098 Curran ; 
Bugias, Merrill 1/656: Province of Cavite, For. Bur. 7682 Curran: Province of 
Laguna, Mount. Banajao, For. Bur. 8030 Curran <£- Merritt: Province of Tayabas, 
For. Bur. 7828 Curran <£- Merritt. Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya, Copeland 
1293. Masbate, For. Bur. 1701/ Clark. 
Native name Tugis, the fruit eaten. Endemic. 
This species is allied to Amomum, flavum Ridl. of the Malay Peninsula. Nearly 
all the specimens cited above have no leaf specimens with them, but on two or 
three distribution numbers fragments of Hornstedtia philippinensis were mixed 
with the Amomum , so much so that, abnormal as it appeared, I referred the 
fruit of the Amomum to the Hornstedtia. A better series of specimens showed 
that this was an error. 
5. A. elegans Ridl. 1. c. 84. 
Rhizome long, slender, covered with brown papery sheaths 1. cm long. 
Stems slender, distant, 60 cm tall. Leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
cuspidate, 15 to 20 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, the upper surface 
glabrous, beneath silky-hairy, shortly petioled; ligule small, truncate, 
the petiole, sheath and ligule hairy. Inflorescence obconic, 1 cm long, 
nearly sessile or distinctly stalked, on long stolons, covered with oblong- 
ovate, truncate sheaths. Bracts oblong, obtuse, pubescent, with about 10 
elevated nerves. Bracteole tubular, silky-hairy. Calyx tubular, silky- 
hairy, 1 cm long, 2-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, silky, as long 
